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 …
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 …
On the fifth of January 2011, the small town of Moerdijk was shaken up by a great fire. On the grounds of Chemie-Pack, a company dealing with chemicals located in …
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. …
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 …
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 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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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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Since the 1990s, the world seems to have gained an embryo of environmental consciousness. These were the times of Al Gore and the results of studies looking at the Chernobyl …
Written and photography by Astrid Parys 13/10/2014 On 31 December 1925, Het Land van Maas en Waal flooded. The abundant rainfall in December, along with ice water from the snowfall …
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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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …