Our perspectives on the past are largely shaped by the stories of those who experienced it. Especially when it comes to sweeping, violent events of 20th-century history, personal stories help us un...
On Friday 15 March, at 15:00, the Resistance Museum Amsterdam, the Sobibor Foundation and NIOD present the Dutch premiere of filmmaker Gary Hochman's documentary Deadly Deception at Sobibor (2023).
On 14 March 2024, the NIOD symposium 'Excavating Sobibor. Holocaust Archaeology between Heritage, History and Memory' will take place at the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. The archaeological research at...
On 14 September 2023, Andrea Pető (Central European University) will deliver the Annual Lecture Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2022 in Amsterdam. The title of her lecture is 'Illiberal memory polit...
On June 8 and 9 2022, the conference 'Actions for the Missing: Scientific and Vernacular Forms of War Dead Accounting' will take place in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam.
As an academic institution specialized in War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and coordinator of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), which has a Ukrainian partner, NIOD strongly...
Dr. Leyla Ferman discussed the Yazidis’ struggle to overcome genocide in this talk, concludes her 2-month fellowship at NIOD. This event took place on Zoom, at 11:00 AM on June 14, 2021.
On 8 October 2025, Professor Esra Özyürek will deliver the annual Holocaust and Genocide Studies lecture in Amsterdam. The lecture will focus on her recently published book Subcontractors of Guilt.
Mass violence and genocide are common themes in the news. The images we see — of destroyed cities, victims, and grieving relatives—are often impersonal and overwhelming. To convey this in a differe...
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second Indochina War, better known internationally as the Vietnam War. The consequences of this war continue to leave deep scars in the li...
During this event, which takes place at NIOD, we aim to commemorate thirty years since the end of the Bosnian war with a two-day, interdisciplinary symposium meant to shed light on the current stat...
NIOD and the University of Amsterdam are hosting a lecture and public reading at the Doelenzaal of University of Amsterdam Library on Thursday, May 1st, to mark the occasion of the newly published ...
The NIOD is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)