General staff:
Wichert ten Have - director
Wichert ten Have is a historian and was previously the director of the department of history at the University of Amsterdam. He remains a UvA staff member, teaching contemporary history.
Select publications:
- 'De geschiedschrijving over crisis en verzuiling', in: W.W. Mijnhardt, Kantelend geschiedbeeld. Nederlandse historiografie sinds 1945 (Utrecht, Antwerpen1983) 256-289.
- De Nederlandse Unie. Aanpassing, vernieuwing en confrontatie in bezettingstijd 1940-1941 (Amsterdam 1999).
Johannes Houwink ten Cate
Johannes Houwink ten Cate is a historian, graduated in 1978 at the University of Utrecht. After graduation he became the teaching assistant to H.W. von der Dunk and received a stipend for the Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz. Subsequently he has worked for 17 years at the research department of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, specializing in the history of the jewish prosecution. In 1995 he completed his dissertation on the Dutch-German relations during the interbellum and its influence on Dutch business.
At present he is professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
On April 14th 2007 professor Houwink ten Cate spoke about Holocaust denial at the European Parliament.
Click to read his lecture.
Select Publications:
-‘Hjalmar Schacht als Reparationspolitiker (1924-1930)’ in: “Vierteljahresschrift fürSozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte”, LXXIV (1987), 186-228
-“ ‘De Mannen van de Daad’ en Duitsland, 1919-1939. Het Hollandse bedrijfsleven en de vooroorlogse buitenlandse politiek”, Den Haag 1995
- “Het Fatale Dilemma. De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam, 1941-1943”, W. Lindwer i.s.m. J. Houwink ten Cate, Den Haag 1995
-Anpassung-Kollaboration-Widerstand. Kollektive Reaktionen auf die Okkupation”, W. Benz, J. Houwink ten Cate, G. Otto (Eds.), Berlijn 1996
- ‘Mangelnde Solidarität gegenüber Juden in den besetzen niederländischen Gebieten?’ in: W. Benz, J. Wetzel (Eds.), “Solidarität und Hilfe für Juden während der NS-Zeit, Regionalstudien 3”, Berlijn 1999, 87-133
- « Das Organisierte Chaos. ‘Ämterdarwinismus’ und ‘Gesinnungsethik’. Determinanten nationalsozialistischer Besatzungsherrschaft », J.Houwink ten Cate, G. Otto (Eds.), Berlijn 1999
Nanci Adler
- associate professor and researcher
Nanci Adler, a Russianist, has focused her research, writing, and teaching on the Soviet terror, the fate of Gulag returnees, coming to terms with the Communist past, and the institutional aftermath of mass victimization (transitional justice). She is in the process of completing an “Innovative Research” grant from the Netherlands Scientific Council, for a project entitled, The Communist Within: Narratives of Loyalty to the Party before, during, and after the Gulag. Ms. Adler is a member of the editorial board of the international series Memory and Narrative. She is also on the Board of the Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and is a member of the Archive Commission for the Netherlands Council of Culture.
Select Publications:
- Co-editor: Memories of Mass Repression: Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity, (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009).
- The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 2002 and 2004;
- Overleven na de Goelag, Contact Uitgeverij, Amsterdam, 2006;
- “The Future of the Soviet Past Remains Unpredictable: the Resurrection of Stalinist Symbols Amidst the Exhumation of Mass Graves,” Europe-Asia Studies 57, 8 (December 2005): 1093-1119.
- “The Return of the Repressed: Survival after the Gulag,” in Daniel Bertraux, Paul Thompson, et.al. eds., On Living Through Soviet Russia, Routledge, London, 2004, pp. 214-234
- “In Search of Identity: The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Recreating Russia,” in Paloma Aguilar, Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Carmen Gonzalez Enriquez, eds., The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001;
- “Life in the Big Zone: the Fate of Gulag Returnees in the Aftermath of Stalinist Repression,” Europe-Asia Studies 51, 1 (January 1999): 5-19;
-Victims of Soviet Terror: The Story of the Memorial Movement, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 1993.
Ton Zwaan - researcher and associate professor
Dr. Ton Zwaan studied social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Subsequently he was part of the academic staff of the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the KU Nijmegen, the department Sociology and History at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the faculty Cultural Studies at the Open University. At present he is associate professor at the department Anthropology and Sociology of the UvA as well as a member of the academic staff of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Select publications :
- Ton Zwaan e.a. (red.), Het Europees Labyrint. Nationalisme en natievorming in Europa, (Amsterdam: Boom/SISWO, 1991).
- Ton Zwaan (red.), Familie, huwelijk en gezin in West-Europa. Van Middeleeuwen tot moderne tijd, (Amsterdam/Heerlen: Boom/Ou, 1993, 1997, 2000).
- Ton Zwaan, Civilisering en decivilisering. Studies over staatsvorming en geweld, nationalisme en vervolging, (Amsterdam: Boom, 2001).
Karel C. Berkhoff
- Researcher and associate professor
Karel C. Berkhoff studied history and Russian studies at the University of Amsterdam, Soviet Studies at Harvard University and received a doctorate in history from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1998. His main focus of study and research is World War II in Russia and eastern Europe. Aside from his continuing research and publications, he has worked as an advisor to the ZDF documentary Holokaust (2000). At present he is part of the academic staff of the Center and associate professor at the University of Amsterdam.
Select Publications:
- “The ‘Russian’ Prisoners of War in Nazi-Ruled Ukraine as Victims of Genocidal Massacre” (in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 15, nr. 1, 2001)
-“Ukraine under Nazi Rule (1941–1944): Sources and Finding Aids” (in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, vol. 45, nr. 1 en nr. 2, 1997)
-In 2004 the Harvard University Press published "Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule." The Wiener Library, London, has prior to the publication, awarded the manuscript with the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History.
Barbara Boender
- Coordinator
Barbara Boender is a historian and previously worked as a communications specialist for a small heritage organisation. She also worked as a researcher for the Dutch ministry for Education, Culture and Science, where she looked into the provenance of works of art that were looted by the occupier during World War II.
As coordinator she is responsible for the organization of the center.
Maria van Haperen - Education Specialist
Maria van Haperen is a historian and has graduated at the University of Nijmegen. Since her graduation she had been actively involved with education. She teaches history and is author of educational material, such as Sfinx from Thieme Meulenhoff.
At the center she is occupied with the transcendense of academic knowledge to high school level educational material, as well as the organization of a teaching the teachers program.
Marieke Meeuwenoord - Ph. D candidate
Marieke Meeuwenoord graduated from the Utrecht University in 2002, specialising in the 20th Century.
In February 2006, she finished her Master 'cum laude' at the University of Amsterdam, having researched the debate on democracy in a Dutch newspaper 1924-29.
She joined the CHGS in april 2006. Her research focuses on the Dutch Concentration Camp Vught ('s Hertogenbosch).
Eva Moraal graduated cum laude from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2005. She joined the CHGS in April 2006. Her research focuses on the Dutch Camp Westerbork. Her aim is to write a standard work on the history of the camp, as well as a book for the general public.
Rosa Lehmann - research fellow
Rosa Lehmann studied social anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She worked as a research fellow at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (University of Amsterdam) and at the Menasseh Ben Israel Institute for Jewish Social and Cultural Studies in Amsterdam. In her current research and publications she focuses on interethnic and state-minority relations in twentieth century Poland, in particular concerning Poland’s Jewish and Ukrainian minorities.
Select publications:
- Symbiosis and Ambivalence: Poles and Jews in a small Galician Town, Berghahn Books, New York, 2001.
- "Jewish patrons and Polish clients: patronage in a small Galician town", in: Focusing on the Shtetl: Myth and Reality, eds. Polonsky, Antony & Redlich, Shimon, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 17, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Oxford: 153-169, 2004.
- The strength of diversity: A micro-history of ethnic conflict and coexistence in rural southeast Poland. Anthropological Quarterly 82 (2) (Spring 2009), pp. 509-546.
- Struggling for Peace: Understanding Polish-Ukrainian Coexistence in Southeast Poland, 1943-2007. PhD dissertation. Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. University of Amsterdam, 2009.