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Anne van Mourik

@annevanmourik.bsky.social
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PhD candidate @ NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Amsterdam. Interested in: German hunger (WWI and WWII) in memory culture // German colonialism // Dutch colonialism // creator of NIOD Rewind Podcast on War and Violence

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wist je dat er in #WOII een verscholen dorp bestond in Nederland? Een NIOD Rewind aflevering met @aretakiscatharine.bsky.social en @willemveldkamp.bsky.social soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... #verscholendorp #epe #vierhouten #holocaust
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NIOD Rewind Episode 49 - Jodenvervolging, Onderduik en Verzet in Epe en Omgeving
Wist je dat tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog er een compleet verscholen dorp bestond in Nederland? De bosrijke omgeving rondom de Gemeente Epe kwam goed van pas kwam bij de onderduik van Joden, verzetss
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NIOD @niodamsterdam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#PODCAST | Wist je dat er in de Tweede Wereldoorlog een verscholen dorp bestond in Nederland? @annevanmourik.bsky.social (NIOD), @aretakiscatharine.bsky.social (Universiteit Utrecht) en Epenaar Willem Veldkamp duiken in het verhaal van Epe. 🎧 Te vinden in elk podcast-platform of hier: edu.nl/vy4rh
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
looks superinteresting - congrats @annevanmourik.bsky.social academic.oup.com/hgs/article/...
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Shrouded in “Silence”? Textbook knowledge on starvation in East and West Germany (1945–1989)
Abstract. Despite starvation's central role as a weapon in the Holocaust and the Second World War, National Socialist killings are primarily associated wit
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
What is happening in #Tigray? An interview with the wonderful @tekgw.bsky.social Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael from @manchester.ac.uk soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... #massviolence #famine #genocide #siege #censorship
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NIOD Rewind Episode 48 - Genocide in Tigray: Assault on the Womb, Starvation and Censorship
What is happening in Tigray? In this episode Anne van Mourik speaks with Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael (University of Manchester) about the strong evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tig
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NIOD @niodamsterdam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#PODCAST | What is happening in Tigray? @annevanmourik.bsky.social speaks with @tekgw.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) about the evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tigray, and (the lack of) academic freedom to publish on it. 🎧 Listen in any podcast platform or go here: edu.nl/qaxbb
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NIOD @niodamsterdam.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#PODCAST | Are perpetrators of mass atrocities really “monsters”? @annevanmourik.bsky.social and @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social interview Alette Smeulers (@rug.nl), who argues that those who commit extreme violence are often more ordinary than we think. 🎧 Listen in any podcast platform or: edu.nl/etqfq
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
✨New Publication!✨ Despite #starvation's centrality as a weapon in the #Holocaust & #WWII, NS killings are often associated with gas chambers & death by bullets. Why? Part of a Special Issue on 'Knowledge at Risk', ed. @laurienvastenhout.bsky.social & Anne Klotz. academic.oup.com/hgs/advance-...
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Shrouded in “Silence”? Textbook knowledge on starvation in East and West Germany (1945–1989)
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NIOD @niodamsterdam.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
#LONGREAD | Modern famine is man-made. It is political and used as a tool of violence. In this longread, @annevanmourik.bsky.social, @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social and Solange Fontana explore how hunger and mass violence are connected, how we can recognize it, and hold those responsible to account.
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LONGREAD | The Violence of Hunger
LONGREAD | This NIOD longread explores how hunger and mass violence are connected, how we can recognize it, and hold those responsible to account.
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NIOD @niodamsterdam.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
#PODCAST | In the first episode of Season 7 @annevanmourik.bsky.social talks with @susieprotschky.bsky.social to explore the question of perpetrator trauma in the aftermath of the Dutch–Indonesian War. 🎧Listen to the podcast in your favourite podcast platform or here: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🚀New NIOD Rewind podcast ep: with @toensmeyer.bsky.social and Peter Romijn about Tönsmeyer's new book on Europe under German occupation 1939–1945 What can the book teach us about how to understand situations of occupation today? 👉 Spotify, podcast app, and: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Starvation in Contexts of Mass Violence and Genocide. Please see the attached notice for full details.
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Kees Ribbens @histk.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
“Ranglijsten maken leidt niet alleen af van de kern – hoe werkte kolonialisme écht, en wie betaalde daar de prijs voor, ook sinds de onafhankelijkheid – maar kan ook moeiteloos worden ingezet voor hedendaagse politieke agenda’s.” Uitstekende observatie!
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
@roelfrakking.bsky.social en ik schreven een opinie: 👉Pas als we de logica van koloniale onderdrukking en het verzet ertegen begrijpen, kunnen we inzien hoe kolonialisme zich telkens opnieuw een weg baant in onze wereld van vandaag
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Zondag 17 aug is Ugur Ümit Üngör te gast bij @vprozomergasten.bsky.social Eerder sprak ik hem voor de NIOD podcast over 80 jaar oorlog verzamelen: van WOII tot Syrië, de Joegoslavische oorlogen en de Yezidi-genocide. 📻 Luister: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... 🍿Ik kijk zondag! #zomergasten #vpro
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NIOD Rewind Episode 42 - 80 Years of Collecting War
Exactly eighty years ago, in the midst of the liberation’s chaos, the NIOD (then the RIOD) was founded with a clear mission: to document Dutch experiences of the Second World War. In this special anni
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Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? Check out Anne van Mourik's (NIOD) interview with CIGH's Martin Thomas about his book The End of Empires and a World Remade (2024).
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NIOD Rewind: The End of Empires and a World Remade
Martin Thomas and Anne van MourikNIOD Rewind Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? In this episode Anne van Mourik (NIOD) speaks with Martin Thomas (Exeter University) about his book The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization (Princeton University Press). He argues that decolonization was not just the transfer of power from colonizers to the colonized, but a global, often violent process that forged new alliances, reshaped international connections, and left behind enduring colonial legacies.
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If empires were so powerful, military, politically, economically, why and how did they collapse? My interview with Martin Thomas @exeter.ac.uk on imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/06/26/n...
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NIOD Rewind: The End of Empires and a World Remade
Martin Thomas and Anne van MourikNIOD Rewind Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? In this episode Anne van Mourik (NIOD) speaks with Martin Thomas (Exeter Uni…
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
📯 Why is colonial violence different from violence in non-imperial spaces? This and more in this freshly published episode in which I interview Prof. Martin Thomas @exeter.ac.uk about his master piece ‘The End of Empires and a World Remade’ #niodrewind #colonialism soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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NIOD Rewind Episode 44: The End of Empires and a World Remade
Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? In this episode Anne van Mourik (NIOD) speaks with Martin Thomas (Exeter University) about his book The End of Empires and a
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Lijphart @lijphart.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Very informative podcast on "Hunger as a Weapon of War and Genocide". Learned more in one podcast then all news. Including the Gaza case. With presenter @annevanmourik.bsky.social and the fantastic Ingrid de Zwarte and Alex de Waal. soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... #genocide #famine #palestine
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NIOD Rewind Episode 43 - Hunger as a Weapon of War and Genocide
In this episode, Anne van Mourik (NIOD) sits down with famine scholars Alex de Waal (Tufts University) and Ingrid de Zwarte (Wageningen University & Research) to discuss how hunger can be used as a p
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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day as claims for reparations continue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day
Concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments were used by German officials to torture and kill.
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
In #Sudan, #Gaza, and beyond, #starvation is used as political-military instrument of power. Why isn’t the world acting? With: Alex de Waal and Ingrid de Zwarte soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... 📯 Spotify, podcast apps and the @niodamsterdam.bsky.social website #famine #historypodcast #genocide
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NIOD Rewind Episode 43 - Hunger as a Weapon of War and Genocide
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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
During a basement clearout at the Supreme Court in #Argentina, workers stumbled upon some champagne crates. Inside, they found stacks of #Nazi documents sent from the 🇩🇪 embassy in #Japan in 1941. The Buenos Aires #Holocaust museum has been tasked with making an #archive bbc.com/news/article...
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New article is out! How were (education and film) narratives of the #WWI Allied naval #blockade (1914–19) and of German #hunger used to promote resilience, justify governmental food policies, and support racist ideologies in Weimar Germany? rb.gy/w7odzz
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“I haven't eaten so well for so long!” | 13 | Representations of the A
This chapter analyses evolving narratives surrounding the Allied Blockade (1914–19) in Germany during WWI through the Weimar era using textbooks and film. While
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🎉 80 years of NIOD! Founded in 1945, amid the chaos of liberation, NIOD began documenting #WWII experiences. 👉Jaap Cohen, Eveline Buchheim, @uungor.bsky.social & Arvid de Raaij about collecting war & violence—from the Nazi occupation to the 2025 #Ajax–Maccabi riots soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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NIOD Rewind Episode 42 - 80 Years of Collecting War
Exactly eighty years ago, in the midst of the liberation’s chaos, the NIOD (then the RIOD) was founded with a clear mission: to document Dutch experiences of the Second World War. In this special anni
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New piece out on "The Long War" in the Netherlands, Indonesia & Germany. During and after #WWII—roles of victim, perpetrator & witness shifted constantly. This matters for how we remember mass violence today. (🇩🇪pp. 30–31) printed in Aktion Sühnezeichen
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I’ve been working on something new: NIOD Rewind Flash – 10-min episodes where I chat with experts on #war and #violence to connect history with today’s news. 1st ep: dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk talks about how #Trump & #Putin use #WWII history for political gain 🎧 soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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NIOD Rewind Flash Episode 41 - History at stake: Trump, Putin and the War in Ukraine
In the first episode of a special NIOD Rewind series called Flash, Anne van Mourik speaks with historian Dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk (NIOD) about how president Trump and president Putin are exploiting Wor
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:
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NIOD @niodamsterdam.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#PODCAST | In a special NIOD Rewind Flash, @annevanmourik.bsky.social speaks with @acbobeldijk.bsky.social about how Trump and Putin are exploiting WWII history to support their political strategies. 🎧 Listen to the flash episode via your favorite platform or here: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I’ve been working on something new: NIOD Rewind Flash – 10-min episodes where I chat with experts on #war and #violence to connect history with today’s news. 1st ep: dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk talks about how #Trump & #Putin use #WWII history for political gain 🎧 soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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NIOD Rewind Flash Episode 41 - History at stake: Trump, Putin and the War in Ukraine
In the first episode of a special NIOD Rewind series called Flash, Anne van Mourik speaks with historian Dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk (NIOD) about how president Trump and president Putin are exploiting Wor
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/02/2025
‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools
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‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools
Two years after he started documenting the effect of the Ukraine war on his pupils, Pavel Talankin reveals how it led to accolade – and exile from home As Russian tanks advanced into Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin was waging a parallel battle…
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Lotte Jensen @lottejensen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Op 13 januari presenteren we in Museum Rotterdam onze brochure Hongersnood als levend verleden. Ervaringen en aanbevelingen. Toegepaste geschiedenis voor beleidsmakers, politici, museummedewerkers, de cultuursector, enz. @mcorporaal.bsky.social @charleyb.bsky.social @annevanmourik.bsky.social
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Laurien Vastenhout @laurienvastenhout.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Ik zoek een stagiair voor mijn project! Specifiek iemand die goed Frans 🇫🇷 leest. Spread the word 🙏🏼
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It was a pleasure to host you Martin Hamre- and dive into the topic of fascist internationalism! @hamremar.bsky.social soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... #fascism #germanhistory #historypodcast
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NIOD Rewind Episode 39 - The Paradoxes of Fascist Internationalism
In recent years, several far-right parties espousing nationalist, anti-immigrant, and Eurosceptic ideas have garnered significant support. Despite their nationalist ideologies, these contemporary far-
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
💫 New article! We know the #BerlinAirlift as a heroic tale, but many Germans were critical of U.S. food aid. Some even claimed Americans used powdered milk for baseball lines⚾ To what extent did more negative tales ended up in #textbooks and contrasted the dominant story? doi.org/10.1057/s427...
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Textbooks, hunger, and humanitarian narratives: representations of U.S. food policies to Germany on a regional scale (1949–89) - Journal of Transatlantic Studies
This article investigates the significance of United States (U.S.) post-WWII food aid to Germany in West German textbooks from a regional angle during the Cold War period. Previous studies have predom...
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Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Das Buch der Woche im Deutschlandfunk. Tatjana Tönsmeyers "Unter deutscher Beseatzung" ist die erste große Monographie über dieses wichtige Thema. Und wird hochgelobt. @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/t...
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Since 1948 tourists started to visit concentration camps, with magazines even promoting 🇩🇪as the land of ‘Bach and Belsen’. 👉 What did postwar tourism to the camps look like? Is it a form of #darktourism? New ep. with Leonie Werle @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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NIOD Rewind Episode 40 - Early Postwar Tourism to Former Concentration Camps
How has American tourism to Nazi concentration camps influenced the ways in which people remember the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities? In this episode, Anne van Mourik (NIOD) sits down with Leonie Werle
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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 20/02/2024
Voor Duitsland is het verleden reden om pro-Israël te zijn. Voor Namibië, het welhaast vergeten slachtoffer van een Duitse koloniale genocide, is het een reden om het geweld van Israël tegen burgers in Gaza te veroordelen. Welke lering kan Duitsland trekken uit zijn genocidale verleden?
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Welke lering kan Duitsland trekken uit zijn genocidale verleden?
Voor Duitsland is het verleden reden om pro-Israël te zijn. Voor Namibië, het welhaast vergeten slachtoffer van een Duitse koloniale genocide, is het een reden om het geweld van Israël tegen...
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Welke lering kan Duitsland trekken uit zijn verleden? Ik schreef over reacties v Duitsl en Namibië op de Gazaoorlog voor @groene.nl. Voor Duitsl is het verleden reden om pro-Israël te zijn; voor Namibië, slachtoffer van genocide, reden om het geweld te veroordelen. www.groene.nl/artikel/welk...
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Welke lering kan Duitsland trekken uit zijn genocidale verleden?
Voor Duitsland is het verleden reden om pro-Israël te zijn. Voor Namibië, het welhaast vergeten slachtoffer van een Duitse koloniale genocide, is het een reden om het geweld van Israël tegen...
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Join DijkstraClara (Cambridge University) and NIOD-colleagues Carlijn Keijzer, Afke Berger and Milan van Lange as they unravel the complexities and opportunities ego-documents offer. Perfect ep. for for #history #students! #Niodrewind on Spotify, the podcast apps and soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
1/8 Today, exactly 199 years ago the German General Lothar von Trotha issued a “the extermination order” to wipe out the Herero tribe in what was then German South West Africa, now Namibia.
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Next month, on October 2, it is 119 years ago that the German General Lothar von Trotha issued his “extermination order” to kill all Herero. For Justice Info I reflected on how Germany is dealing with this colonial genocide www.justiceinfo.net/en/121871-st... #herero
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
👉What's the meaning of the medium of photography for thinking about the Holocaust? What happens when images relating to the Holocaust, e.g. of Anne Frank, become ubiquitous? 🎧with dr. Kylie Thomas (UCC) (Photo: D. Kallmus Post-War Slaughterhouse collection) soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
🎧I'll start by posting the link to one of my favourite NIOD Rewind #podcast episodes: 👉How to address less visible kinds of violence, such as long-term pollution or climate change, which have the potential to kill entire populations? soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...
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