Dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk
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Anne-Lise Bobeldijk is a researcher at the NIOD Institute and coordinator externally financed projects. Her work focuses on patterns of perpetration and violence, and the impact of violence on everyday life during war, occupation and genocide. Her main focus is on the Holocaust, World War II and Soviet repressions in the (former) Soviet Union and on how these histories are presently used for political purposes in an international context.
In 2023 Anne-Lise defended her PhD “Entangled narratives of terror: Maly Trostenets and Blagovshchina forest in history and memory, 1937-2022” at the University of Amsterdam which focused on the history and memorialization of the forced labour camp Maly Trastsianets, in Minsk, Belarus. For her research she visited for longer periods archives in i.e. Belarus, Germany, Austria, the UK and USA. She was EHRI Fellow at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in München and at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute in Wenen.
Anne-Lise worked as a university teacher at Wageningen University and was a postdoc in the NWA Heritages of Hunger project. In her project ‘Famine Legacies in the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Russia’ she researched the political use and abuse of hunger histories in the Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine, focusing on the famine during the Leningrad Blockade and the Holodomor. She has published broadly on female bystanders and perpetrators of the Holocaust, the history and memory of the Holocaust in Belarus and the politization of Holocaust and hunger histories across Europe.
Besides academic research, Anne-Lise works as coordinator of research projects at NIOD. She acquires, creates and coordinates research projects that have a strong academic basis, but also contribute to the Dutch (and European) heritage sector in a broader social context.