Laurien Vastenhout
@laurienvastenhout.bsky.social
Researcher #Holocaust based in Amsterdam @NIOD, Award 🏆winning book on “Jewish Councils”(CambridgeUP, 2022, also available in 🇳🇱). New project on “mixed” families during WW2. Latest book: “Jewish Councils” in Nazi-Occupied Europe (Wallstein Verlag, 2025).
Interested in studying Holocaust and Genocide Studies? Consider attending the online information session on our MA program at the University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱 on 17 November from 17:00-18:00. For more info about the program and signing up, see the link below 👇🏼 www.uva.nl/shared-conte...
Master Holocaust and Genocide Studies (History)
Explore 20th-century genocides from the vantage point of different disciplines.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Interested in studying Holocaust and Genocide Studies? Consider attending the online information session on our MA program at the University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱 on 17 November from 17:00-18:00. For more info about the program and signing up, see the link below 👇🏼 www.uva.nl/shared-conte...
EVENT: On 8 October, Professor Esra Özyürek delivers the annual Holocaust and Genocide Studies lecture in Amsterdam. She will talk about her book Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany. More info and registration: www.niod.nl/en/activitie...
HGS Annual Lecture 2025: Subcontractors of Guilt
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.
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September 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
EVENT: On 8 October, Professor Esra Özyürek delivers the annual Holocaust and Genocide Studies lecture in Amsterdam. She will talk about her book Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany. More info and registration: www.niod.nl/en/activitie...
Very proud of Renna Elfrink, former student of Holocaust and Genocide Studies @niodamsterdam.bsky.social. Her MA thesis has just been published (in Greek! 🇬🇷).
May 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Very proud of Renna Elfrink, former student of Holocaust and Genocide Studies @niodamsterdam.bsky.social. Her MA thesis has just been published (in Greek! 🇬🇷).
On 2 May, I moderate this event on Sieg Maandag in Amsterdam. It marks the 80th anniversary of the famous photograph that documented Maandag’s liberation at Bergen-Belsen. The event focuses on life after trauma, violence and loss. You can attend (online) by signing up here: spui25.nl/programma/si...
Sieg Maandag: Trauma and Art in the Aftermath of Bergen-Belsen
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.
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April 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
On 2 May, I moderate this event on Sieg Maandag in Amsterdam. It marks the 80th anniversary of the famous photograph that documented Maandag’s liberation at Bergen-Belsen. The event focuses on life after trauma, violence and loss. You can attend (online) by signing up here: spui25.nl/programma/si...
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#WORKSHOP | On Thursday and Friday, @laurienvastenhout.bsky.social hosts the workshop 'The Holocaust in the Netherlands: New Insights and Approaches'.
In 2026, contributions made during the workshop will be published in Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah: www.memorialdelashoah.org/archives-et-....
In 2026, contributions made during the workshop will be published in Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah: www.memorialdelashoah.org/archives-et-....
March 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#WORKSHOP | On Thursday and Friday, @laurienvastenhout.bsky.social hosts the workshop 'The Holocaust in the Netherlands: New Insights and Approaches'.
In 2026, contributions made during the workshop will be published in Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah: www.memorialdelashoah.org/archives-et-....
In 2026, contributions made during the workshop will be published in Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah: www.memorialdelashoah.org/archives-et-....
Apart from hundreds of letters, I found many photos of Jews in “mixed” relationships or marriages in the 1930s and 1940s. Their stories have largely been untold. These are Salomon Ringer and his fiancé Alice Vandormael in 1942. Five weeks after the liberation of Belgium 🇧🇪, they finally got married.
March 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Apart from hundreds of letters, I found many photos of Jews in “mixed” relationships or marriages in the 1930s and 1940s. Their stories have largely been untold. These are Salomon Ringer and his fiancé Alice Vandormael in 1942. Five weeks after the liberation of Belgium 🇧🇪, they finally got married.
Last week, I organised a workshop on “mixed couples” during conflict at @niodamsterdam.bsky.social. With contributions on Haiti 🇭🇹, Rwanda,🇷🇼 Burundi 🇧🇮,Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, India 🇮🇳, Germany 🇩🇪, Austria 🇦🇹, Ukraine 🇺🇦, the Ottoman Empire, and the Netherlands 🇳🇱. Discussed themes included love, emotions…
March 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Last week, I organised a workshop on “mixed couples” during conflict at @niodamsterdam.bsky.social. With contributions on Haiti 🇭🇹, Rwanda,🇷🇼 Burundi 🇧🇮,Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, India 🇮🇳, Germany 🇩🇪, Austria 🇦🇹, Ukraine 🇺🇦, the Ottoman Empire, and the Netherlands 🇳🇱. Discussed themes included love, emotions…
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Congrats to former #SaulKagan Fellows @laurienvastenhout.bsky.social and Jan Lanicek for their new @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social book! With contributions by former Fellows incl @stefanc-ionescu.bsky.social and committee member @andrealoew.bsky.social www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535410... #Holocaust
»Jewish Councils« in Nazi Europe, 1938-1945: A Pan European Perspective | Wallstein Verlag
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...
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February 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Congrats to former #SaulKagan Fellows @laurienvastenhout.bsky.social and Jan Lanicek for their new @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social book! With contributions by former Fellows incl @stefanc-ionescu.bsky.social and committee member @andrealoew.bsky.social www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535410... #Holocaust
Out now! 📕 The edited volume on “Jewish Councils” in Nazi Europe. Very happy to see this in print. Thank you @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social, @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social, all authors and my wonderful co-editor Jan Lanicek!
January 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Out now! 📕 The edited volume on “Jewish Councils” in Nazi Europe. Very happy to see this in print. Thank you @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social, @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social, all authors and my wonderful co-editor Jan Lanicek!
Moved to Vienna for a full year to work on my project on “mixed” families in an international research group at the @univie.ac.at. Happy to be here and get some archival work done 🙏🏼
January 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Moved to Vienna for a full year to work on my project on “mixed” families in an international research group at the @univie.ac.at. Happy to be here and get some archival work done 🙏🏼
Promoveren bij het NIOD? Mooie vacature voor een promotieplek waarin je onderzoek doet naar de bezettingspolitiek en de Jodenvervolging in Enschede 🇳🇱. Spread the word! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda... @niodamsterdam.bsky.social
Promovendus/Promovenda Gemeente Enschede - NIOD
Promovendus/Promovenda Gemeente Enschede - NIOD
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December 16, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Promoveren bij het NIOD? Mooie vacature voor een promotieplek waarin je onderzoek doet naar de bezettingspolitiek en de Jodenvervolging in Enschede 🇳🇱. Spread the word! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda... @niodamsterdam.bsky.social
Ik zoek een stagiair voor mijn project! Specifiek iemand die goed Frans 🇫🇷 leest. Spread the word 🙏🏼
#STAGE | Per 1 februari 2025 is het NIOD op zoek naar een stagiair om te assisteren bij een onderzoek rondom ‘gemengd gehuwden’ tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in West-Europa, onder leiding van NIOD-onderzoeker @laurienvastenhout.bsky.social.
Het betreft een aanstelling van 3 maanden. Meer info. ⤵️
Het betreft een aanstelling van 3 maanden. Meer info. ⤵️
Het NIOD zoekt twee stagiairs
Begin 2025 is het NIOD op zoek naar twee stagiairs om twee onderzoekers te assisteren bij hun betreffende onderzoeken.
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December 4, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Ik zoek een stagiair voor mijn project! Specifiek iemand die goed Frans 🇫🇷 leest. Spread the word 🙏🏼
To all documentary makers, tv and radio hosts, journalists, and others: please never ask a woman to contribute to your project because you “need a young person and a woman” next to all the older, white guys you already asked weeks or months ago. Not the first time this happened to me.
December 4, 2024 at 10:51 AM
To all documentary makers, tv and radio hosts, journalists, and others: please never ask a woman to contribute to your project because you “need a young person and a woman” next to all the older, white guys you already asked weeks or months ago. Not the first time this happened to me.
Jammer dat mijn naam consistent misspelt wordt (“Vastenhoud”), maar wel mooie aandacht voor de Nederlandse vertaling van mijn boek over “Joodse raden” in West-Europa historiek.net/de-joodse-ra... @historiek.bsky.social @niodamsterdam.bsky.social
De Joodse raden in West-Europa - Polderen tot de dood erop volgt | Historiek
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...
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December 4, 2024 at 8:48 AM
Jammer dat mijn naam consistent misspelt wordt (“Vastenhoud”), maar wel mooie aandacht voor de Nederlandse vertaling van mijn boek over “Joodse raden” in West-Europa historiek.net/de-joodse-ra... @historiek.bsky.social @niodamsterdam.bsky.social
The forced removal of “mixed” children from their mothers between 1948 and 1953 in Congo was traumatic and inhumane. These practices found their origin with Belgium’s 🇧🇪 King Léopold. The Belgian colonial state has now been condemned for crimes against humanity..👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo
Court said five women were victims of ‘systematic kidnapping’ by state over forced removal from mothers as small children
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December 3, 2024 at 11:45 AM
The forced removal of “mixed” children from their mothers between 1948 and 1953 in Congo was traumatic and inhumane. These practices found their origin with Belgium’s 🇧🇪 King Léopold. The Belgian colonial state has now been condemned for crimes against humanity..👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Back on @bsky.app :-) and back in Europe after hosting a seminar in Los Angeles🇺🇸 on “mixed” families during the #Holocaust. More on this new project (funded by Dutch research Council) soon!
November 29, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Back on @bsky.app :-) and back in Europe after hosting a seminar in Los Angeles🇺🇸 on “mixed” families during the #Holocaust. More on this new project (funded by Dutch research Council) soon!
And now my book is also reviewed in French 🇫🇷👇🏼
January 17, 2024 at 1:49 PM
And now my book is also reviewed in French 🇫🇷👇🏼
Another great and generous review of my book. Thanks @andrealoew.bsky.social and @fritzbauerinstitut.bsky.social: “Diese Dynamiken in einem überaus komplexen Kontext
herauszuarbeiten ist Laurien Vastenhout auf exzellente Art und Weise gelungen. Ihre Untersuchung setzt Maßstäbe, wenn es um…
herauszuarbeiten ist Laurien Vastenhout auf exzellente Art und Weise gelungen. Ihre Untersuchung setzt Maßstäbe, wenn es um…
January 15, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Another great and generous review of my book. Thanks @andrealoew.bsky.social and @fritzbauerinstitut.bsky.social: “Diese Dynamiken in einem überaus komplexen Kontext
herauszuarbeiten ist Laurien Vastenhout auf exzellente Art und Weise gelungen. Ihre Untersuchung setzt Maßstäbe, wenn es um…
herauszuarbeiten ist Laurien Vastenhout auf exzellente Art und Weise gelungen. Ihre Untersuchung setzt Maßstäbe, wenn es um…
Happy to have contributed to the edited volume “If this is a Woman: Studies on Gender and Women in the Holocaust” & with the great review of my article. For the full review, see: www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
December 20, 2023 at 7:39 AM
Happy to have contributed to the edited volume “If this is a Woman: Studies on Gender and Women in the Holocaust” & with the great review of my article. For the full review, see: www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
Our MA students (#Holocaust and #Genocide studies) working hard on their papers/thesis during the monthly “Shut up and Write” session at NIOD Amsterdam.
November 30, 2023 at 10:37 AM
Our MA students (#Holocaust and #Genocide studies) working hard on their papers/thesis during the monthly “Shut up and Write” session at NIOD Amsterdam.
The word is out! My book 'Between Community and Collaboration' received the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. I feel extremely honoured & am in very good company. More info: www.niod.nl/en/news/laur...
NIOD-onderzoeker Laurien Vastenhout receives Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Resea...
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...
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November 27, 2023 at 9:39 AM
The word is out! My book 'Between Community and Collaboration' received the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. I feel extremely honoured & am in very good company. More info: www.niod.nl/en/news/laur...
‘Laurien Vastenhout’s “Between Community and Collaboration” is a much-needed addition to the study of the Holocaust in Western Europe.’ Very happy with this wonderful review of my book👇🏼📕 academic.oup.com/hgs/advance-...
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November 22, 2023 at 7:23 AM
‘Laurien Vastenhout’s “Between Community and Collaboration” is a much-needed addition to the study of the Holocaust in Western Europe.’ Very happy with this wonderful review of my book👇🏼📕 academic.oup.com/hgs/advance-...
This is happening this afternoon and I can’t wait to talk with my dear friend and colleague Natalia about her fascinating project. There are still some seats available👇🏼
November 14, 2023 at 9:02 AM
This is happening this afternoon and I can’t wait to talk with my dear friend and colleague Natalia about her fascinating project. There are still some seats available👇🏼
In these particularly difficult times, it was great to see many dear friends and colleagues again at the “Lessons & Legacies” conference. Of course, our dear Israeli colleagues were greatly missed. Apart from our own panel on ‘Contested Intimacies’, I had the privilege…
November 10, 2023 at 7:13 AM
In these particularly difficult times, it was great to see many dear friends and colleagues again at the “Lessons & Legacies” conference. Of course, our dear Israeli colleagues were greatly missed. Apart from our own panel on ‘Contested Intimacies’, I had the privilege…