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Cover Picture door Simone Tijdink (The disaster made me look, the stories made me see A fieldwork report on the Volendam Café Fire)
English / Noord-Holland

The disaster made me look, the stories made me see. A fieldwork report on the Volendam Café Fire.

The Volendam Café Fire was a disaster that caught the eye of the entire country and beyond. What was supposed to be the perfect New Year’s Eve for hundreds of …

Ruins of the Paleis voor Volksvlijt, photographed in Amsterdam, April 1929. via wikimedia
English / Noord-Holland

Dream of the past, hope in the present

De slopers zijn de laatste bezoekers, en zij ruimen nu definitief de galerij en de weemoed van zijn herinneringen op. Met lege ogen zien de beelden van de galerij nog …

Volendam Experience by Elena Finariu (The Scars of the 2001 Tragedy Volendam)
English / Noord-Holland

The scars that the 2001 tragedy left on the village of Volendam

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction defines disaster as: “a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental …

English / Noord-Holland

Remembering Disaster. On the shooting on Dam Square May 7th 1945

06/04/2016 It’s May 7th, 1945. Two days earlier Nazi-Germany surrendered, and the Dutch occupation ended officially. However, the Allied forces haven’t ingressed most of the villages and cities in the …

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