News
-
Traitors, profiteers or collaborators: ‘The Jewish Council has long been judged too harshly’ 02 May 2022
For too long the Dutch collective memory has judged the Jewish Council too harshly. This perspective needs to be adjusted, Bart van der Boom argues in...
-
Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’ 19 April 2022
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also ...
-
‘Stolpersteine’ at the University Library to commemorate Leiden war victims 28 March 2022
Two Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) have been placed in front of the University Library in memory of the Jewish Cosman family. At the time of the Sec...
-
Indonesian resistance hero and Leiden student Irawan Soejono is given a face 28 January 2022
To mark its 75th anniversary, the Netherlands War Graves Foundation is publishing a portrait of a war victim every week this year. On 24 January the d...
-
University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’ 18 January 2022
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with ...
-
Lecture Antoaneta Dimitrova in Prague: Freedom is Precious 30 November 2021
Antoaneta Dimitrova, Professor Comparative Governance, presented the Cleveringa Lecture at the Vaclav Havel Library in Prague last week. We spoke to h...
-
Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust 26 November 2021
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grab...
-
Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’ 11 November 2021
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Pol...
-
Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam 27 October 2021
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Gro...
-
Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture 12 October 2021
On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust ...
-
International lecture series on moral courage begins on 22 September 13 September 2021
A new series of webinars, the Cleveringa Dallaire Critical Conversation Series, begins on 22 September. In this series of online conversations, expert...
-
Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming' 18 May 2021
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debu...
-
‘Sometimes simply staying alive is a form of resistance’ 11 May 2021
How do harrowing war experiences affect different generations? Students have made a video about poignant family stories. They interviewed other studen...
-
‘Cleveringa’s legacy reminds us of the need to stay vigilant’ 27 November 2020
The world let Rwanda down at the time of the genocide, and that can never be allowed to happen again, Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire declared in ...
-
Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire on Rwanda and PTSD 19 November 2020
Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire led the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1994, but was unable to prevent a genocide from unfolding before his ...