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    • Welcome to NIOD

    Het NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies is een nationaal en internationaal expertisecentrum voor interdisciplinair onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van wereldoorlogen, grootschalig geweld en genociden, en de maatschappelijke uitwerking daarvan. Daarnaast verzamelt, bewaart en ontsluit het NIOD archieven en collecties.

    About NIOD
    Archive

    NIOD manages over 2,500 meters of archival material. The finding aids list the NIOD archives and whether they are freely accessible. Part of our archival collection has been digitised and can be accessed online.

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    Image Bank

    The image material from the collections of Dutch war and resistance museums, remembrance centres, and NIOD is brought together in the Image Bank WW2. The Image Bank WW2 is managed by NIOD.

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    Library

    The NIOD library contains over 75,000 titles about the Second World War, the Holocaust, and other genocides from the 20th and 21st centuries.

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    The Underground Camera

    The photographs by professional photographers working illegally during the Second World War, known as ‘The Underground Camera’, contributed significantly to the image of the German occupation after the war. However, little was known abo...

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    Yugoslav Wars and Post-Yugoslav Space Thirty Years After

    During this event, which takes place at NIOD, we aim to commemorate thirty years since the end of the Bosnian war wit...

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    Event on New Dutch-Jewish Holocaust Memoir

    NIOD and the University of Amsterdam are hosting a lecture and public reading at the Doelenzaal of University of Amst...

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    8 May 2025

    New episode NIOD Rewind podcast: 80 Years of Collecting War

    Exactly eighty years ago, in the midst of the liberation’s chaos, the NIOD (then the RIOD) was founded with a clear mission: to document Dutch experiences of the Second World War. In this special a...

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    27 January 2025

    EHRI becomes ERIC to secure the future of Holocaust Research

    On the eve of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) was inaugurated as a permanent European Resear...

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    24 February 2025

    New: NIOD Rewind Flash

    In the first episode of a special NIOD Rewind series called Flash, Anne van Mourik speaks with historian Dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk (NIOD) about how president Trump and president Putin are exploiting ...

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    13 December 2024

    Hinke Piersma appointed professor by special appointment

    Hinke Piersma has been appointed professor by special appointment of History of the Second World War and its social, political and psychological impacts, at the Faculty of Humanities of the Univers...

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    31 October 2024

    Watch: HGS annual lecture 2024

    On 17 October 2024, prof. Martin Shaw delivered the annual Holocaust and Genocide Studies lecture in Amsterdam. The title of his lecture was 'In Defence of the Concept of Genocide’.

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    Yugoslav Wars and Post-Yugoslav Space Thirty Years After

    29 April 2025 - 30 April 2025

    Although this is one of the most extensively documented man-made disasters in recent history, three decades after Srebrenica, Oluja, and Dayton, many questions remain unanswered. A gap between glob...

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    Event on New Dutch-Jewish Holocaust Memoir

    1 May 2025 - 1 May 2025

    The memoir, by Judic Wynberg-de Vries, chronicles the survival of a young Dutch Jewish family through the Nazi occupation of Holland from 1940 to 1945. Just days before the 1940 German invasion of ...

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    Hunger as a Weapon of War and Genocide

    3 April 2025

    The use of starvation as a weapon of war and genocide is rising, and around 223 million people are being starved as deliberate policy. For the past, the present, and the future, this raises several...

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    25 June 2024

    Historical war experiences and the archivist’s voice in the digital age

    How are personal letters and diaries used when studying people’s experiences in times of war? How does the digitisation of historical ‘egodocuments’ contribute to this, and what issues does this ra...

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    2 November 2023

    Illiberal Memory Politics: Insights by Andrea Pető

    On the annual Holocaust and Genocide Studies lecture, on Sept 14th 2023, Prof. Dr Habil. Andrea Pető DSc, Dr.h.c. (Central European University) presented her work titled “Illiberal Memory Politics ...

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    7 June 2023

    Addressing Violence in and through Objects: workshop reflections about ‘Cultural Genocide’

    How can we discuss colonial destruction, oppression and erasure of cultural heritage by studying surviving objects and collections in European heritage institutions? What potential do objects from ...

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    29 June 2023

    Tiny creatures of great importance: how Emmanuel Speijer did entomological research in the concentration camps

    For most people, a concentration camp would not be the obvious place to collect insects. For the Dutch Jew Emmanuel Speijer, though, building an entomological collection was a way to survive. While...

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    • Closed on Mondays

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