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NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is a national and international centre of expertise for interdisciplinary research into the history of world wars, mass violence, and genocides, including their long-term social consequences. In addition, NIOD collects, preserves, and provides access to archives and collections.

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Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies

We proudly present volume 11, issue 2 (2022) of the Fascism journal (open access). We hope you’ll enjoy reading the a...

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Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies

We proudly present volume 11, issue 1 (2022) of the Fascism journal (open access). It’s an issue containing 5 article...

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Archaeology of Destruction

Between 2000 and 2017, archaeologists conducted several research campaigns on the site of the former Sobibor extermin...

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21 October 2022

Vacancy Senior Researcher The Netherlands deployment in Afghanistan: "The National Context"

NIOD is looking for a senior researcher to study the national context of the Dutch deployment in Afghanistan in the years 2001-2021 for the long-term and in broad historical context.

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14 October 2022

NIOD Congratulates Memorial for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies wishes to express its heartfelt congratulations to Memorial for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 in recognition of its decades of work to expose...

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05 July 2022

NIOD bids farewell to Head of Research Peter Romijn

On Wednesday 29 June, our colleague Professor Peter Romijn bid farewell to NIOD, having reached retirement age. He gave a valedictory speech during a festive afternoon at the BIMHUIS in Amsterdam. ...

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17 June 2022

NIOD and NIMH research twenty years of Dutch deployment in Afghanistan

The study concerns the nature, scope, costs, time period and set objectives of the military, diplomatic and civilian deployment in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021, as well as the limitations, dilemma...

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26 April 2022

NIOD researchers discover proof of Syrian massacre

What do you do as a researcher when you come across video footage of a massacre that nobody else has seen? When NIOD researcher Ugur Üngör and Annsar Shahhoud, a student of the NIOD Holocaust and G...

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04 April 2022

New opening hours reading room

As of April 4, 2022, it is no longer necessary to make a reservation for a visit to the reading room. From then on, new opening hours will also apply.

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23 March 2022

Research Report: 'Book About Betrayal of Anne Frank Based on Assumptions and Lack of Historical Knowledge'

The claim that Jewish notary Arnold van den Bergh probably betrayed Anne Frank is based on assumptions and inadequate historical knowledge, says a team of historians, including NIOD researcher Laur...

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28 January 2022

Help us find the stories 'Behind the Stars'

On the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day 2022, the NIOD ImageLab is launching the project "Behind the Star". This new project focuses on photographs in which people are depicted wearing the Yellow...

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14 October 2021

The Netherlands offers to host EHRI headquarters

The Netherlands offers to host and co-fund the headquarters of the permanent European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). Dutch incumbent Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations Kajsa ...

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19 May 2021

'The Westerbork film': Research, Restoration, Exhibition

On 19 May 2021, Kamp Westerbork Memorial Centre launched Gevangen in Beelden (‘Captured in images’), an exhibition about the Westerbork film made in 1944 by German-Jewish refugee and prisoner Rud...

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16 November 2022

'Was the Holocaust a unique event?' and other questions: lectures by Bob Moore and Dan Michman

In October, historians Bob Moore and Dan Michman each delivered lectures at NIOD. The lectures were organized by the Master's programme Holocaust and Genocide studies, run jointly by the University...

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28 October 2022

Defying a potential disaster. How cartoonists fought Dutch National Socialism on the eve of the Second World War

The theme of History Month 2022 is ‘What a disaster!’; a familiar exclamation in times of war and crisis, expressing the shock and helplessness felt when a disaster occurs. But the fear that societ...

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27 September 2022

Detachment and distance: The challenges of using online archives

Social science researchers in the field of genocide studies are often trusted with stories related to severe trauma and highly personal, difficult experiences. In this blog, NIOD fellow Anna Gopsil...

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29 August 2022

Sexual Violence and the War in Ukraine

As war in Ukraine continues to unfold, disturbing reports of sexual violence and rape levelled at Russian soldiers by Ukrainian women and children have been reported by media across the globe. In t...

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21 March 2022

The destruction of Kyiv, then and now?

In September 1941, part of Kyiv city centre was destroyed; not by the German occupying forces, but by the Russian Red Army. The latter remotely detonated mines that were hidden before German troops...

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17 March 2022

A Workshop on War Letters (in the Digital Age)

Since the introduction of Transkribus, a platform for digitization and transcription of historical documents, several projects working with collections of handwritten personal correspondence from b...

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03 March 2022

Perhaps Not a World War, But One That Should Concern Us All: The War in Ukraine From a Vietnamese Perspective

‘The war in Ukraine is not a world war, but it is interpreted throughout the world from the specific concerns of people in different places’, says Tam Ngo, fellow at the NIOD and the Max Planck Soc...

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22 December 2021

An archive of sorrow

‘When I’ve made a few lists, I often go to the Names Monument – I live nearby – and lay a stone for the families whose belongings I’ve just transcribed.’ Thus said one of the volunteers for the ‘Pa...

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17 December 2021

A comic-strip diary against a background of war

NIOD recently added a diary in the form of a comic strip to its collection: an almost cheerful, literally colourful diary entitled ‘The Humorist of Van Gekkum & Co.’ In August 1939, the author, Lie...

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08 December 2021

Focusing on the Future. Evoking Memories of German Hunger

On 16 October 2021, the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne posted a photo of the above Kollwitz’s drawing on its Instagram in honour of World Food Day, an initiative started in 1945 by the United Nat...

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07 September 2021

Luck, wisdom and infrastructure. On an unexpected historical source and a helpful colleague.

Once in a while, you come across a source that makes your heart beat faster. A source that you hadn’t known existed, but you’d nevertheless always hoped to encounter one day. In principle, such sou...

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01 March 2021

Apartheid, Amnesty, Amnesia

The majority of those responsible for atrocities committed under apartheid have never stood trial. In this blogpost Kylie Thomas, our Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the NIOD, writes abou...

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