The Homomonument, a site of a human disaster
6/11/2014 I discovered the Homomonument accidentally, on one of my first days in Amsterdam after my arrival in August to start my Erasmus exchange. I was discovering the city with …
Too Less to live Too Much to Die, A Stroll through the Jordaan and its Riot
The early 1930s were shaped by economic crises and austerity policy1. In Amsterdam at that time lived many unemployed people and budget cuts by the national government would push them …
Dike Breach in Wilnis
07/11/2014In the early morning of the 26th of August 2003, the little town of Wilnis experienced a dike breach. A sixty meter long piece of dike shifted away, causing a …