The project Survivor-centred Visual Narratives, initiated in Canada, investigates how visual narratives can help victims of genocidal and other mass violence find a voice. How can they work in dial...
The denial and distortion of the Holocaust has its origins with the Nazis. In an attempt to cover up the murder of some 180,000 Jews and the daring uprising and mass escape of over 300 prisoners in...
For this conference, NIOD is bringing together an international group of interdisciplinary scholars to shed light on archaeological research on Sobibor and its broader context from multiple perspec...
In the past few years, Hungary has been portrayed as a negative example of memory politics, charged with being the “ground zero” for a paradigm change in World War II memory politics. This was echo...
This workshop seeks to foster a comparative discussion of scientific and vernacular attempts to account for the missing in action in a number of post-World War II contexts. Finding, identifying, an...
Watch a recording of the meeting below. In order to discuss and share our knowledge and stance on this war, launched allegedly to “denazify” a neighboring state, NIOD organized the online ‘NIOD-...
There was a huge public international interest at the beginning of the Genocide against Yazidis in Sinjar (Iraq) on 3 August 2014, committed by the so-called Islamic State. Photos and videos from t...
Researchers Tam Ngo and Dat Nguyen from NIOD will be joining the discussion. Tam Ngo's research focuses on social healing and environmental restoration in post-conflict areas, with a particular foc...
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...
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 ...
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...
How do you investigate the provenance of museum collections acquired during the colonial era? On 20 March, researchers and specialists will discuss their experiences as provenance researchers ...
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