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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.

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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NIOD Rewind Podcast

In the NIOD Rewind podcast on war & violence, Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview historians and other acad...

Heritages of Hunger Public Lecture Event

On 28 June, 2022, the Heritages of Hunger project will organize a public lecture event at the Valkhof Museum in Nijme...

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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. ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

06 April 2021

Martijn Eickhoff new director NIOD

On 1 September 2021, Martijn Eickhoff will be appointed director of NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Eickhoff is ...