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Drenthe / English

Kamp Westerbork – Remnants and Representations of a Modern Disaster

The Holocaust was undeniably a disaster of the 20th century. In his well-known book Modernity and the Holocaust (1991), Zygmunt Bauman argued that the Holocaust is well to be thought …

Left, Memorial at Schiphol-Oost. 03/04/2016 door Octavia Aronne (Unwanted souls, unwanted thoughts: Memorialization, Change, and Meaning of the Schiphol-Oost Detention Centre Fire)
English / Noord-Holland

Unwanted souls, unwanted thoughts: Memorialization, Change, and Meaning of the Schiphol-Oost Detention Centre Fire

The cover photo (figure 1) captures what now remains at the site of the Schiphol-Oost Detention Centre Fire. Soon after October 26-27, 2005 the Centre was shut down and dismantled. …

10 red flowers set down on the Homomonument by Giulia Traversari (The Homomonument)
English / Noord-Holland

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 …

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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