NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) is a national and international center of expertise for interdisciplinary research into the history of world wars, mass violence and genocides, including their long-term social consequences. In addition, NIOD collects, preserves, and provides access to archives and collections on these subjects, in particular on the Second World War. The NIOD has collected archives from the German occupation of the Netherlands and the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, as well as large collections of illegal newspapers and pamphlets, posters and photos, books and articles.

The NIOD was founded on May 8, 1945 to map the history of the Second World War in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. However, wartime violence did not stop in 1945 or at the nation's borders. The NIOD's field of work has therefore broadened to include interdisciplinary research into the causes, course, character and aftermath of various forms of mass violence. NIOD provides independent and reliable knowledge about these themes and thus contributes to the social and political debate.

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