Explore 20th-century genocides from the vantage point of different disciplines.

On 8 October 2025, Professor Esra Özyürek will deliver the annual Holocaust and Genocide Studies lecture in Amsterdam. The lecture will focus on her recently published book Subcontractors of Guilt.

Sieg Maandag (1937-2013) was seven years old when he was photographed by George Rodger as he walked among the piles of bodies in the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. His father was killed there, his mother survived camp Beendorf and was reunited with him six months after the war. Sieg’s family were diamond dealers. After the war he learned to work with diamonds, traveled the world, fell in love, sang at the Paradiso night club, and painted hundreds of paintings and ceramics. This presentation, on the 80th anniversary of the photo documenting his liberation, focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to his art as representation and transformation.

Different perspectives on the controversially discussed »Jewish Councils« The Jewish representative organisations that were instituted by German authorities and their allies during the Second World W...

Promovendus/Promovenda Gemeente Enschede - NIOD

De Joodse raden in West-Europa functioneerden onder grote druk van de Duitse bezetter, met weinig autonomie om eigen beslissingen te nemen. In Nederland, België en Frankrijk verschilde hun handelingsr...

Court said five women were victims of ‘systematic kidnapping’ by state over forced removal from mothers as small children

Dr Laurien Vastenhout will receive the 'Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research 2023' on 4 December 2023 for her book 'Between Community and Collaboration 'Jewish Councils' in Weste...