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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.
Holocaust Past Meets Modern Amsterdam in Steve McQueen Documentary ‘Occupied City’
6 December 2023
12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen takes us on an amazing, meditative journey through Amsterdam in Occupied City. His documentary shows how the Second World War has shaped the contemporary face of the Dutch capital.
How Missing Soldiers Regain Their Identity
22 April 2022
The bodies of almost a hundred thousand soldiers who died in Belgium’s Westhoek region during the First World War have never been found. Their mortal remains still lie hidden in the Flemish clay. The exhibition Missing at the Front. Unearthing Names in the In Flanders Fields Museum shows how some
Black Liberators: African-American Soldiers in the Netherlands
12 September 2019
A travelling exhibition pays tribute to the forgotten black soldiers who helped to liberate the Netherlands during the Second World War.
Liberation of Belgium: More than ‘Cigarettes for Dad’ and ‘Chocolates for Mummy’
5 September 2019
The commemorative ceremonies marking the liberation of Belgium, 75 years ago by now, spark memories of a joyful age in which friendly tanks triumphantly rolled down the streets. The unbridled enthusiasm Belgians witnessed back then is magnified today, and re-enacted here and there. However, those re
The Treaty of Versailles: Harbinger of Peace and Source of Frustration
26 June 2019
On 28 June 1918, exactly one hundred years ago, the treaty that would finally end World War I was signed in Versailles. That peace treaty would redraw the map of Europe. Belgium, which had suffered greatly during the war, left for Versailles with a heart full of hope, but was forced to leave nearly
Former Anne Frank House Can Be Visited via Google Street View
19 June 2019
The Amsterdam house where Anne Frank's family lived before they had to hide can now be viewed in 360 degree on Google Street View.
The Great War Revisited
25 March 2019
Over the past four years, numerous events - intense and sometimes deafening - have been held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great War (1914-1918). This anthology brings together some of the finest essays we have published over the last decade focusing on a war which cast such a long shadow ove
‘You Know Where Your Grave Is, Don’t You?’
20 March 2019
In recent years, hundreds of thousands of people have visited the scars left by the First World War along the French-Belgian Front. More than ever before, in fact. But war tourism is not a new phenomenon. In the spring of 1919, as the first inhabitants of the devastated border area returned, tourist
‘Kleihuid’ by Herien Wensink: The Delirium of the Great War
18 March 2019
The monthly column First Book draws attention to literary debuts which garnered less notice upon release than they deserve. In this first edition, Dirk Vandenberghe has selected Kleihuid (Clay Skin), in which author Herien Wensink provokes with pressing questions, seen in the light of the First Worl
