80 years after the ‘Hunger Winter’ killed an estimated 20,000 people in the western part of the Netherlands, the use of starvation is rising as a tool of war and genocide in global conflicts. Today...
How can academics and museum professionals research the provenance of a colonial museum collection? And can we trace possible ‘involuntary loss of possession’ or looted objects? During the colonial...
On 19 February 2024 the expert meeting "Voices of War: Exploring Individual Armed Actors and Personal Testimonies" (20th –21th century) will take place at NIOD.
What does it mean for a people to be transformed from indigenous inhabitants to foreigners in their own homeland? On December 10, 2024, Hakem Al-Rustom will give a lecture on the erasure of Armenia...
Sudan is suffering the worst crisis of its turbulent history. With 13 million people displaced and much of the country facing famine, the toll on ordinary Sudanese is staggering. On 28 November, an...
On October 31st, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), the USC Shoah Foundation and NIOD are hosting the public workshop 'Listening to Testimonies of Mass Atrocities: Past Lessons and ...
On 17 October, 2024, prof. Martin Shaw will deliver the annual Holocaust and Genocide Studies lecture in Amsterdam. The title of his lecture is ‘In Defence of the Concept of Genocide’.
The NIOD is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)