Wilnis 25 & 26 Augustus 2003
Vooralsnog heb ik het geluk gehad nooit echt in aanraking te zijn geweest met een ramp. Mijn ‘rampervaringen’ zijn over het algemeen beperkt tot horrorverhalen afkomstig van de media, en …
Verlaten herinneringen
In de nacht van 26 op 27 oktober 2005 brak brand uit in één van de cellen van het detentiecentrum aan de oostzijde van Schiphol. Die nacht kwamen elf mannen …
Shooting Alphen aan den Rijn April 9th 2011
For my fieldwork report, I wanted to pick something a bit different than what you would normally expect when you think of a disaster site. There were a lot of …
The 1996 Dakota-crash in the Wadden Sea
The island of Texel, the biggest of the Dutch Wadden Islands, has an important place in my personal history; my grandfather and my mother (his daughter) were both born on …
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 …
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 …
100 jaar droge voeten: Over de gevolgen van de watersnoodramp in 1916 voor Marken
Honderd jaar geleden. Enkele dagen had het hard gewaaid. Grote golven waren te zien op de Zuiderzee, maar het water kwam op Marken wel vaker erg dichtbij. Zeevissers trokken de …
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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Legionella Disaster
07/11/2014 In 1999 a Legionella disaster occurred in the Netherlands. Lot’s of people suffered from the Legionnaires’ disease. They got pneumonia-like symptoms and the disease was spread over the country. …
Rotterdam Through the Eyes of a Disaster
Written and photography by Aida Bilajbegovic 14/11/2014 In 1940 on the 14th of May at 13:30 hours Rotterdam got bombed by the Germans. This bombardment was part of a bigger …
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 …
Bijlmer Air Crash Disaster
12/04/2016 The Netherlands with its dense population is, according to Menno van Duin (1995), disaster-prone. It is remarkable, then, that major accidents and disasters are rare events. However, the Netherlands …