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Anne Frank: The Vulnerability of a Universal Symbol

11 September 2024

After the publication of her diary, Anne Frank became more than just a symbol of Jewish suffering during World War II; she transcended the 1940s to become a universal and timeless representation of innocence and victimhood. However, that second dimension is now under scrutiny.

New Holocaust Museum Shows The Persecution Of Jews In Its True Colours

13 March 2024

Knowledge about the Holocaust and the role played by the Dutch in it is declining - especially among young people. High time, then, for the new National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam. But what can this museum say that has not been said before by dozens of other Dutch museums and memorial sites conce

Simon Gronowski’s Great Escape from the 20th Nazi Convoy

10 January 2024

Meet Simon Gronowski, a 92-year-old jazz pianist and lawyer from Brussels, and, above all, a Holocaust survivor who escaped from a deportation train to Auschwitz.

Art for Das Reich: The Forgotten Stories Behind Nazi-Looted Art

13 June 2023

Investigative journalist Geert Sels spent eight years researching Nazi-looted art in Belgium. In Kunst voor das Reich (Art for Das Reich), he brings many histories of robbery, collaboration and restitution to light for the first time. His book is also an appeal to the Belgian government to tackle th

A House as a Second Skin. The Documentary ‘Housewitz’ by Oeke Hoogendijk

4 July 2022

Oeke Hoogendijk’s Housewitz is a documentary portrait of her mother whose phobias have kept her from setting foot outside her house for about three decades. Her cluttered upstairs rooms are full of "unprocessed junk." A film about a house as a second skin: about security, being trapped and travell

Etty Hillesum: a Life Interrupted, a Spirit Unperturbed

6 May 2020

In 1981, nearly forty years after she was killed in Auschwitz, Dutch Jewish Etty Hillesum found fame overnight after her diary entries were published in Het verstoorde leven (An Interrupted Life). Her diary notes, which she jotted down in occupied Amsterdam, are a testament to strong personal develo

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