The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies ( Dutch: ''NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies'') is an

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in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

which maintains archives and carries out

historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...

studies into the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the Holocaust and other genocides around the world, past and present. The institute was founded as a merger of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation ( Dutch: ''Nederlands instituut voor oorlogsdocumentatie'', NIOD, formerly National Institute for War Documentation, Dutch: ''Rijksinstituut voor oorlogsdocumentatie'', RIOD) and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS). It has been part of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

since 1 January 1999.

Mission

According to its website, the NIOD Institute's mission is to: It administers the archives of the

German occupation of the Netherlands Despite Dutch neutrality, Nazi Germany German invasion of the Netherlands, invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940 as part of ''Fall Gelb'' (Case Yellow). On 15 May 1940, one day after the Rotterdam Blitz, bombing of Rotterdam, the Dutch forces ...

and the

Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies The Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945. In May 1940, Germany German invasion of the Netherlands, occupied the Netherlands, and ma ...

, as well as large collections of clandestine newspapers and pamphlets, photographs, books and articles.

Studies and publications

The institute published The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II (Dutch: ''Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog'') in fourteen volumes and 18,000 pages. This magnum opus of Loe de Jong is the standard reference on the history of the Netherlands during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. The NIOD had recently made an electronic edition of the entire work, available for downloading from 11 December 2011, licensed under

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CC BY 3.0. It also performed a study into the

Srebrenica massacre The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. It was mainly perpetrated by unit ...

of 1995, which led to the report ''Srebrenica: a 'safe' area'', which led to the resignation of the second cabinet of Wim Kok.

Other publications

* Post, Peter / Gijsbers, Harco: ''The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War''. Publisher: Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2010. * Withuis, Jolande / Mooij, Annet (eds.): ''The Politics of War Trauma, The Aftermath of World War II in Eleven European Countries''. Publisher: Aksant, Amsterdam, 2010. * Boender, Barbara / Haperen, Maria van / Üngör, Ugu: ''The Holocaust and other genocides. An introduction''. Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2012. * Adler, Nanci: ''Keeping Faith with the Party: Communist Believers Return from the Gulag''. Publisher: Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2012. * Keizer, Madelon de (ed.) / Bakker, Marjo (ed.) / Griffin, Roger (ed.): ''Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies''. Publisher: Brill, Leiden, 2012.

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