Current research

Programs

Transitional Justice Programme

The study of Transitional Justice analyses the mechanisms at work in the political context of regime change.

PARTHENOS

The PARTHENOS project aims at strengthening the cohesion of research in the broad sector Heritage.

Very ordinary or quite special? New views on people in the resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands 1940-1945

A research programme which focuses on the experiences, expectations and actions of the resistance.

Four Centuries of Labor Camps. War, Rehabilitation, Ethnicity

This program studies labor camps world-wide and over a long period of time.

Articulating Modernity

This project focuses on societal change through the prism of popular music.

Sleeping Beauties, Hidden Forces

A study of the dynamics of archaeological knowledge production and heritage formation in Indonesia.

Legacies of Violence

Research about post-war developments in Japan and the Netherlands.

Indonesian Chinese Programme

Research programme about Indonesian Chinese families in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia.

EHRI European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

The international EHRI project creates online access tot Holocaust-related sources.

Projects

Indonesia’s Propaganda and the Independence War, 1945-1949

An in-depth study of the use of propaganda by the Indonesians during 1945-1949.

Research Virtual Reality Sobibór

Reseacrh into impact of this project in Holocaust education in the Netherlands.

Wikipedia as a source of information about World War II

This project focuses on the supply and demand of World War II information on Wikipedia.

Visualizing War: The impact of the World Wars on comics

This project examines how the world wars are represented and interpreted in the popular medium of comics.

National-Socialist Archaeology in Europe and its Legacies

This edited volume is dedicated to national-socialist archaeology as a Europe-wide phenomenon

War and Emotions: Mining expressions of emotionality in Dutch political and public language related to World War II (1945-1989)

‘War and Emotions’ the researcher investigates emotional expressions in political and public debates related to World War II.

Escalating into Holocaust

The project aims to create a database of the Holocaust victims killed at the camp Old Fairground.

Jewish Councils in Europe

This project brings together important archival collections on Jewish Councils from seven different countries in Europe

Liminal moments and the threat of war in public and political debate in Japan and the Netherlands since the Second World War

Research in changes in public and political debate in moments of war and violence.

Narrated Injustice. Compensation Policies and Trans-Generational Narratives of (In)Justice

This research explores compensation payments to (Jewish) victims of World War II in the Netherlands and how the policies of the late 1990s became a reference-point for pres

The Hunger Winter reassessed

PhD-project on social responses to the Dutch food crisis in the period 1944-1946.

Memory Landscapes and the Regime Change of 1965-66 in Semarang

This project develops a tool to map and visualize localized memory of mass violence.

The Netherlands Red Cross during the Nazi occupation

Investigation into the role of the NLRC before, during and in the aftermath of World War II.

Radical Political Imagination

Describing caricatures made by the controversial national socialist Maarten Meuldijk.

The Long War - The Netherlands at War in Europe and Asia, 1940-1950

History of how the Dutch were involved, during the 1940s, in the Second World War and the process of decolonisation.

Babi Yar in History and Memory

The story of the wartime murders at the Babi Yar ravine (Kiev, Ukraine) in 1941.

Enriched Kingdom

This project aims to further improve the searchability of Loe de Jong’s work The Kingdom.

Between Democracy and Fascism

Research about the transnational repertoire of mass movements between 1918-1940.

Trade, ethnicity and power. Japanese business and Southeast Asia, 1860s-1960s

This project focuses on the role of Japanese business in the social and economic transformations of Asia.

Double portrait Jaap and Ischa Meijer

This biography of father and son links the family history with the collective history of Jews in the Netherlands.

Cultural History in the Interwar period / Biography Albert Verweij

Broad cultural-historical investigation into the cultural mentality in the Netherlands in the interwar period.