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City and village

How t was

Hou t was is an oral history project in which Groningers tell about their lives in the past.
Fascinating life stories and histories come to life this way.

It has been told, the book can be closed.

Disaster

Impact of the Holocaust in their lives and families in terms of resilience, trauma and meaning

Second World War

Trauma & Resilience

Trauma & Resilience: intergenerational holocaust research from an existential perspective

Colonialism

Narrated (In)justice

This research project by Dr. Nicole Immler (2014-2016) explores compensation payments to (Jewish) victims of World War II in the Netherlands and how the policies of the late 1990s became a reference-point for current claims by post-colonial groups.

Migrants and refugees, Second World War

The Moluccan perspective in wartime

With this project, the Moluccan Historical Museum focuses on the experiences of older Moluccans during the Second World War and its aftermath.

Second World War

Indonesian and Indo resistance in the Netherlands

This oral history project features individuals of Indian background who opposed the occupying forces during the war.

Migrants and refugees

Specially Unknown

A collection of life stories of refugees who came to the Netherlands in the past 40 years. The oral history project Ongekend Bijzonder recorded 248 life stories as part of contemporary history.

City and village, Second World War

Eyewitnesses of the Scholtenhuis

For many inhabitants of the city of Groningen, the Scholtenhuis was a notorious building during the war. The building on the east side of the Grote Markt served as the headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst, the German intelligence service.

Migrants and refugees, Women

Black, migrant and refugee women

In the context of: Moving Women's History - Second feminist wave.

Professions

Victoria Factory

Interviews with employees about their time at the Victoria biscuit and chocolate factory in Dordrecht

Second World War

Fleeing from Overloon

Second World War

Fleeing from Venray

Second World War

Two Thousand Witnesses Tell Their Stories

the stories of Dutch survivors

Second World War

Witnesses to the history of Anne Frank

Colonialism

Papuans in Diaspora

Second World War, Women

Collection Diederichs

Interviews with women who themselves had a relationship and/or whose family member had a relationship with a German soldier during the war.

Second World War, Women

Testimonies of Dutch women who had a relationship with a German man

Migrants and refugees, Women

Back in a Bite

9 interviews with first generation migrant women in the Netherlands.

Second World War

NSB men in Westerbork

After liberation, the former German transit camp Westerbork functioned as an internment camp for NSB people.

Second World War

Fields of Margraten

The Americans liberated South Limburg in September 1944. To the astonishment of farmers, the first American soldiers were buried in their fields shortly afterwards. were buried in their fields.

Second World War

Bystander Memories

Bystander Memories contains a total of 59 interviews with Dutch non-Jewish eyewitnesses of the persecution of the Jews.

Dutch Missionaries (KMM)

The memories of Dutch missionaries

Women

Everything was locked

Child labour girls Good Shepherd

Belief

Narrated Past

Interview collections of the Digital Humanistic Heritage

Belief

Speaking Humanism

Interview collections of the Digital Humanist Heritage

City and village

The past told

250 interviews from the Volksbuurt Museum Utrecht

The viewer meets the professor being interviewed

Professions

Archive and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Behavioural Sciences

Outstanding scientists, who made history in their field, must be heard by future generations.

Second World War

Atlantikwall The Hague

Witness stories with residents of The Hague and Scheveningen about their memories of the Atlantic Wall

Professions

Collection of interviews VNO-NCW

Interview project with former board members of VNO-NCW commissioned by the International Institute of Social History (IISG).

@Flanders, Colonialism

Metises of Belgium

The harrowing story of colonial children of mixed blood

Resistance, Second World War

Porgel & Porulan in the Resistance

Although little known, Jews were also active in the resistance during World War II. They were members of communist and social-democratic resistance groups, the Ordedienst and were involved in the February strike of 1941.

Agriculture, Second World War

Farmers’ wives and farmers’ daughters in the Second World War

Boerinnen en boerendochters vormen een speciale groep oorlogsgetroffenen. Juist zij vervulden op de boerderij veel taken en waren er op een bijzondere manier mee verbonden.

Mandatory sailing for Queen and Country

In June 1940, compulsory shipping came into force. From that moment on, the Dutch who sailed in our merchant fleet were part of the allied forces.

Religion, Second World War

A church split in wartime

Project with 10 interviews with Reformed people who experienced the church split, the so-called Vrijmaking, in 1944. How did the Reformed community in Amersfoort experience a church split during wartime?

Second World War

The Russian War, uprising by Georgian troops on Texel

On Schiermonnikoog it was war until 24 June 1945. And on Texel more than a thousand people died during the uprising of Georgian prisoners of war. The Wadden Islands each have their own special war history.

Second World War

Allied bombing of the Fokker factory in Amsterdam-Noord in July 1943

In July 1943, the Allies tried to drop bombs on the Fokker aircraft factory in Amsterdam-North, because it was involved in the German war industry.

Second World War

Officers and non-commissioned officers of the Aruba Militia and the Aruba Volunteer Corps

Before 1940, two oil refineries were established on Aruba, the 'Lago' and the 'Arend'. When World War II broke out, the allied armies were dependent on oil. Because of this, Aruba flourished economically, but it also became a possible target for Nazi Germany.

Second World War, Women

Repatriated wives of Moluccan KNIL soldiers

Testimonies of wives of Moluccan KNIL soldiers, who came to the Netherlands between 1951 and 1953.

Labour Movement, Professions, Women

Women and trade union

Women and labour in the Dutch trade union history

Colonialism, War

Hussars of Boreel

Experiences of Dutch conscripts in the Republic of Indonesia immediately after the transfer of sovereignty

Second World War, Women

Rape and Comfort

They are euphemistically called 'comfort women': young Indonesian girls who were systematically raped by soldiers of the Japanese occupying army in World War II.

Resistance, Second World War

Climb to Freedom

Engelandvaarders who used the southern routes

Professions, Second World War

Merchant Navy Families in Wartime

In June 1940, compulsory shipping came into effect. From that moment on, the Dutch who sailed in our merchant fleet were part of the allied forces.

Second World War

Dutch ex-prisoners of Buchenwald camp

On the Ettersberg, a large wooded hill eight kilometres north of Weimar in Germany, the Nazis established the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1937. It quickly became one of the largest concentration camps of the Third Reich.

Dutch SS men

During the Second World War, between 22,000 and 25,000 Dutchmen served in Waffen-SS formations.

Second World War, Women

Nine women escape from death march 1945

On the night of 14 April 1945, 5,000 women from Buchenwald camp were herded onto the road. Escorted by SS men, the prisoners had to travel long distances.

Second World War, Women

NSB women in the war

As a political organisation, the NSB also had great appeal for women.

Return trip to Sachsenhausen

The project "Return ticket Sachsenhausen" deals with the deportation of prisoners from Camp Vught to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

City and village, Migrants and refugees

Diversity of the Amersfoort Memory

In the past 50 years, a large number of migrants have come to Amersfoort to build a new life for themselves. Archief Eemland set out to collect source material on migrants.

Belief

Socialist upbringing

Oral-history project on socialist home upbringing

Professions, Women

German maids in the Netherlands

Interviews and telephone conversations for research on German maids in the years 1920-1950 in the Netherlands 1986-1991

Second World War

In the light of liberation

Eight-part series by Charles van den Berg in which he talks to 8 people who personally experienced the Second World War.

LHTBQ+, Second World War

The gay subculture in the big city, just before, during and just after World War II

Collectie Jan Carel Warffemius
Getuigenverhalen-project [Witness Testimony Project]

Youth Movement

Workers’ Youth Central (AJC)

On the history of the Workers' Youth Central

Religion, Second World War

Bombs and habits

Congregational nuns talk about their experiences during the years of German occupation.

Second World War, Women

Daughters of collaborating parents

About the experiences of women whose parents were on the 'wrong' side during the years of German occupation.

City and village, Second World War

Nijkerk as a refuge during WWII

In September 1944, Nijkerk was confronted with a large stream of refugees from the Arnhem area.

Migrants and refugees

Javanese in diaspora

Until 1939, approximately 33,000 Javanese in Suriname transferred. After their contract period, the majority settled in Suriname.

Second World War

Long shadow of Sobibor

A unique historical collection consisting of open interviews conducted by Professor Selma Leydesdorff

Second World War

The Willy Lindwer Holocaust Video Archive

Since 1970, filmmaker Willy Lindwer has built up a film and video collection that focuses on the Holocaust.

City and village, Second World War

Groningen during wartime

Interviews with 14 witnesses who tell about their experiences during the occupation and liberation of Groningen and its surroundings.

Politics and policy, Second World War

SDAP 1940-46

Former SDAP members talk about Dutch social democracy during the German occupation and the transition from the SDAP to the PvdA in 1946.

Second World War

Witnesses of Theresienstadt

Jews deported from the Netherlands 1943-1945

Music, Second World War

World War II in music

On the meaning of music in World War II

Resistance, Second World War, Women

Four Resistance Women. Just Do It and Stand Up Proudly

Why did they revolt against the German occupier and what consequences did this have for their lives?

Music, Second World War

The years of reconstruction 1945-1955

Series of extensive interviews with key persons from the world of music about the war years and the years of rebuilding musical life after the war.

City and village, Second World War

Drenthe during the war

Testimonial of the resistance activities in Drenthe supplemented with some stories of collaborators

Collection Zijlmans

Interviews on the Domestic Administration Corps
Around 1940, the Dutch East Indies Home Administration Corps (bb) consisted of some 600 civil servants who, together with Indonesian officials, administered the country. A quarter of the Dutchmen in the corps died during the war.

Second World War

Camp of hope and despair

Witnesses of Westerbork, 1939-1945

Politics and policy

Henri Polak

The interviews were held as part of Bloemgarten's PhD research on Henri Polak (1868-1943), politician and one of the most prominent leaders of the Dutch labour movement.

Politics and policy

Youth policy

Interviews with administrators, scientists and policymakers on youth policy. The emphasis is on the years 1945-55 and 1965-80. The concept of mass youth is central.

Belief

World federalism

Davidse, development economist and world federalist, speaks with Dutch, American and English representatives of the World Federalist Movement (WFB) about the movement in general and the local sections in particular.

Art/culture, Resistance, Second World War

Artists’ resistance

On the social and political position of artists before the war, in particular since 1933

Religion, Women

Abuse of girls in the Roman Catholic Church

An Oral history project on the hidden past of sexual abuse and mistreatment of girls within the institutions of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands from 1940 onwards.

@Flanders, Second World War

Collections day WWII, 2019

WWII Testimonies in Antwerp

Politics and policy

New Guinea policy

The position of the ARP with regard to the New Guinea issue in 1961-62

Film industry, Politics and policy

CPN-film

The interviewees talk about their involvement in the production of films commissioned by the CPN and in the making of the party's television broadcasts since 1965, within the framework of the Broadcasting Zendtijd voor Politieke Partijen (ZPP).

Second World War

Philips-commando

During the Second World War, at the request of the occupying forces, a Philips workshop was set up in Camp Vught, where products such as windup-torches and radios were manufactured.

Film industry, Second World War

Dutch film industry during World War II

"Were films made during the war?"

Art/culture, Film industry

Film criticism 1923-45

Film criticism in relation to social developments

Activism, City and village

Squatters’ Movement Groningen

Interviews with people who were active in the Groningen squatters' movement between 1977 and 1987

War

Korean War

Experiences of Dutchmen in the Korean War (1950-1953), who were part of a contingent of United Nations forces

Activism

Twente textile strike

Twente Textile Strike 1931-32, textile industry Twente 1930s

Activism, Labour Movement

Unity Trade Union Centre (EVC) 1943-1948

In 1944, the foundations were laid for an entirely new trade union organisation, the Eenheidsvakbeweging (EVB) (Unity Trade Union Movement).

Activism, Labour Movement, Professions

Labour Movement Twente

Labour movement and labour relations in the Twente textile industry, 1930-1960

City and village

Oral History Simpelveld-Bocholtz

Residents talk about their lives

Colonialism, Politics and policy

Indonesia policy and the PvdA

The PvdA's attitude towards Indonesia in the years after 1945

City and village

Past and Present – Driebergen

Memories of certain events, times and circumstances in Driebergen

Politics and policy

CPN

On the history of the Communist Party

Politics and policy, Second World War

Annexation

Possible annexation of German territories after World War II

Second World War

Women’s concentration camp

Experiences in the resistance movement and subsequent internment in camp Vught and camp Ravensbrück

LHTBQ+, Women

Moving Lesbians

5 lesbians who contributed greatly to the visibility and emancipation of lesbians in the Netherlands

@Flanders, Second World War

Johannes Blum Collection

This collection consists of over 1,100 testimonies (over 1,200 recordings) conducted by Johannes Blum, researcher and interviewer at Les Compagnons de la Mémoire.

@Flanders, Second World War

The war children

Oral testimonies of children born from relationships of Belgian mothers with German fathers.

Politics and policy

Dutch development policy Suriname

The Dutch development policy for Suriname since 1954

@Flanders, Migrants and refugees

Ghent guests

The story of the first generation of Moroccans in Ghent

@Flanders, Migrants and refugees, Professions

The Founders

Various generations of migrants bear witness to a rich past. De Grondleggers tells the story of three generations of Turks in East Flanders.

@Flanders, Professions

Interviews about the Belgian graphic industry

Interviews with employees (printers, typesetters, bookbinders) and business owners, active in the printing industry in Belgium.

@Flanders, Activism, Women

Oral history of the second feminist wave in Flanders

30 interviews on the second feminist wave.

City and village

Oral History Project, 1940-present

a.o. interviews with former directors and artists

@Flanders, Second World War

Antwerp Jewish Historical Archive – Archives of Sylvain Brachfeld

Jewish families in Antwerp in the 1970s interviewed by Mr Brachfeld

@Flanders, Professions

Diamond

Interviews conducted within the framework of the project A World of Diamond: Diamond Workers in Belgium, The Netherlands and France (1895-2000)

@Flanders, Art/culture

Going out in Ghent

The relaxation life in Ghent before World War II.

@Flanders, Art/culture

Vooruit: 100/30

Interviews with visitors' experiences and own activities in Feestlokaal Vooruit

@Flanders, Professions

Lunch time

Testimonies about the lunch break at work

@Flanders, Second World War

Buchenwald

Testimonies of former deportees to Buchenwald

@Flanders, Labour Movement

The Catholic Church and the Catholic Worker Youth

Catholic Worker Youth, compulsory employment in Germany and the Catholic Church.

@Flanders, Second World War

The Belgian Church during the Second World War

Priests, abbots, canons, fathers, bishops on the Catholic Church and the occupation of Belgium

@Flanders, Second World War

Occupied Belgium

Collaboration and resistance in occupied Belgium

@Flanders, Second World War

The intelligence services during the Second World War

Resistance movements and the intelligence and action services

@Flanders, Second World War, Women

Women in the Resistance in Henegouwen

Women's participation in resistance as a possible long-term factor for emancipation.

Migrants and refugees

Life stories

Levensverhalen (Life stories) is a series of interviews with migrants that Fatusch Productions produced together with Imagine IC.

Art/culture, Journalism

Television journalism

The development of journalistic conventions within current affairs programmes on television in the 1960s, in particular VARA's ACHTER HET NIEUWS and KRO's BRANDPUNT.

@Flanders, Labour Movement, Professions

Workers’ and students’ movement before and after 1968

Interviews on experiences as a worker

@Flanders, Politics and policy, Second World War

Fascism in Spain and Belgium

Series of interviews on fascism in Spain and Belgium.

@Flanders, Second World War

Broadcasting during the Second World War

Radio London, National Institute for Radio Broadcasting - N.I.R., Radio Belgium

@Flanders, Resistance, War

The Belgian Communist Party and the Spanish Civil War

Jewish revolutionaries in Belgium, 1925-1940

@Flanders, Second World War

Flemish collaboration

Flemish collaboration and in particular the VNV.

@Flanders, Colonialism

Former Belgian colonists

@Flanders, Second World War

Trade unionism in times of war

Syndical resistance in World War II.

@Flanders, Migrants and refugees

Fieldwork: refugee experiences

46 specially unknown stories of refugees in Antwerp

@Flanders, Second World War

The clandestine warfare

The "clandestine war" of secret services, press and radio.

Professions, Women

Women professors

5 emeritae women professors on their successes and obstacles in their academic careers.

Agriculture

Agricultural films and stories

For the research project 'Bewogen landschap' (Eventful Landscape), Stichting Multimediale Cultuur (SMC) Amsterdam is collecting stories of people who were involved in the modernisation project (1945-1985) of the Dutch countryside.

@Flanders, Second World War

Testimonies Holocaust WWII, Crea 16

About the Holocaust and persecution of Jews.

@Flanders

Gevaert developed

About working at Agfa Gevaert in Mortsel

@Flanders, Professions

Oral history of the mining region

Testimonies to the past of the Belgian Limburg Mining Area

Activism, Women

Women’s relief work

Oral history interviews with feminists who pioneered women's mental and physical health care.

Activism, Women

Red women

Oral History interviews with eight women who played important roles in the Red Women and women's training centre De Born

Activism, Women

Women’s Peace Movement

Interviews with women who were active in the women's peace movement in the interwar period.

Activism, Women

Dolle Mina

Oral history interviews with women who were active in Dolle Mina

Philosophy of life, Second World War

Black and National Front

Rise and fall of fascist movement.

Professions

Mill stories

What was daily life like on the polder mills of South Holland? Millers, children of millers, and also millwrights and former polder administrators tell their stories.

@Flanders

The Belgians in Portugal

In addition to ordinary citizens, government leaders, soldiers, war volunteers, businessmen, Jews and spies fled to Portugal.

Colonialism

Tabee New Guinea

New Guinea travellers' and Papuans' testimonies on the eventful period around the end of Dutch rule in October 1962.

@Flanders, Second World War

Communism

Belgian communists from 1939 to 1944.

@Flanders, Migrants and refugees, Women

The women of Breskens

Between 1970 and 1981, dozens of Turkish women from Ghent worked in a fish filleting factory in Breskens.

@Flanders, Migrants and refugees

Aalstern Turks

On the occasion of the Week of Flavours 2009, with Turkey as the host country, Aalst's city archives, in cooperation with its cultural heritage cell, launched a limited investigation into the migration history of our Turkish fellow townspeople.

@Flanders, Migrants and refugees

Aalstern Spaniards

In the 1950s, many Spanish families migrated to Limburg to dig for a better life in the coal mines.

@Flanders

50 years of work in the Waasland region

Around the middle of the last century, the Waasland region experienced a great economic boom, in business sectors such as the textile industry, metal construction and shipbuilding.

@Flanders, Architecture

Fifty years of urban planning law

The Flemish Architecture Institute (VAi), as part of the project Fifty years of urban planning law, conducted eight interviews with key witnesses of urban planning development and handling of landscape during the past half century.

@Flanders, Architecture, Art/culture

Design

The cultural heritage of design consists not only of sketches, models, photographs or correspondence of designers.

@Flanders, Architecture, Professions

Stynen 2018

On the occasion of the Stynen 2018 project, the Flemish Architecture Institute (VAi) conducted five interviews with family members, colleagues and clients of Léon Stynen that give us a unique insight into the architect's life and work.

Second World War

Former hostages

Hostages at Beekvliet and Haaren camps

@Flanders, Second World War

Children of the collaboration

Children of collaborators look back and testify about the war period

@Flanders, City and village

Dutch-speaking Brussels residents

Brussels narrated and unveiled (2002-2003)
Brussels at work (2003-2004)
The great and small history of the cobblestone (2003-2004)
The Flemish Memory of Brussels (2011-2012)

@Flanders, City and village

Inhabitants of Bruges talk about the past and the present

Collected testimonials from residents of Bruges on specific topics.

War

Dutch participants International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), around 800 Dutch fighters were part of the International Brigades

@Flanders

Heemkring Landrada and Tesi Samanunga archives

Local history Munsterbilzen

@Flanders, Colonialism

Children of the colony

People who lived it up close tell of colonial and post-colonial Congo

@Flanders, Migrants and refugees

Children of the migration

Twenty witnesses belonging to three generations from Italy, Greece, Spain, Morocco and Turkey tell their stories.

@Flanders, Second World War

Children of the resistance

Thirteen witnesses talk about their parents' acts of resistance and how the legacy of World War II has shaped their own lives, sometimes until today

@Flanders, Second World War

Children of the Holocaust

The Holocaust claimed tens of thousands of victims in Belgium. The children of Jews who survived faced a leaden legacy.

Living and working together in the Bakkum Sperrgebiet

During the German occupation, the Castricum dune area and the village of Bakkum were declared a Sperrgebiet and therefore not accessible to ordinary citizens.

Second World War, Youth Movement

AJC in wartime

Interviews with former members of the Workers' Youth Central about their personal experiences and the role of the AJC during World War II

Professions, Resistance, Second World War

KNMG – Physician during the years of occupation

During the German occupation, Dutch doctors were confronted with numerous ethical dilemmas.

Professions

Collection of Historical Working Materials

Interviews with former workers in the shoe and leather industry.

Resistance, Second World War

February strike Netherlands

The February Strike was held during World War II in protest against the many anti-Jewish measures and persecution of Jews.

Activism

Imaazje! The imagination of Provo

Interviews with former members of Provo by Niek Pas for his dissertation Imaazje! : the imagination of Provo (1965-1967)

Professions, Women

Dutch housemaids

Interviews for research on Dutch housemaids in the 1920s-1950s

Politics and policy

Interviews by Ger Verrips with CPN members

Interviews by Ger Verrips with members of the CPN in the 1980s and 1990s.

@Flanders, Politics and policy

Flemish nationalism

Oral history of individuals who experienced the history of Flemish nationalism from various perspectives.

City and village

Four gentlemen about the Gouda of around 1890

One of the first oral history interviews about Gouda, recorded with a wire-recorder.

Activism, Labour Movement

Interviews with union members

Interviews conducted with members of various Dutch trade unions.

Politics and policy

Ex-tapols

Interviews with ex-political prisoners

Migrants and refugees, Professions

Ta Cuba mi ke bai

Testimonies of workers who emigrated from Curaçao to Cuba in the early 20th century

Labour Movement, Politics and policy

Interviews Varkevisser with union officials

Former union officials tell the story of their private and working lives.

Labour Movement, Politics and policy

Interviews Henne Pauli

Interviews with various people about the FNV under Wim Kok's chairmanship

Politics and policy

Socialist Youth of the Netherlands

Interviews with former Socialist Youth members

Politics and policy, Second World War

Interviews Wim Pelt with (former) CPN members

Interviews with (former) CPN members

City and village, Second World War

Interviews World War II

Eyewitnesses 1940-1945 Memories of Sprang-Capelle, Waalwijk and Waspik in wartime

Migrants and refugees

Collectie Louise Elisabeth van Groningen (1929-2022)

Interviews with Moluccan women in the Netherlands, mainly daughters or granddaughters of KNIL soldiers

Colonialism, Migrants and refugees

Mongesch CIHC

Chinese from Indonesia
Oral History Archive CIHC

Migrants and refugees

Javanese in the (Dutch) polder

Tangible traces of Javanese Surinamese in the Netherlands

Colonialism, Second World War, War

Our Dutch Indies for the Indonesians

On the decisive developments in the Indonesian independence struggle

Second World War, War

Selamat Sjabbat

The unknown history of Jews in the Dutch East Indies

Migrants and refugees

Kenang Kenangan: Moluccans in Zwolle

Interviews conducted with third-generation Moluccans

Second World War, War

The history of South Sulawesi

Interviews with former government officials and former military and prominent Indonesians in South Sulawesi

Women

Customs around pregnancy and childbirth

Customs around pregnancy and childbirth at the beginning of the 20th century
Custumbernan rond di embaraso y dunamento di lus na cuminsamento di siglo 20

Politics and policy

Living CPN history

Collection of interviews with former communists in the Netherlands

City and village, Resistance, Second World War

Resistance in Tilburg

Interviews about the Tilburg resistance and illegality

Second World War

Mierlo residents on their war memories 1940-1945

Collection of interviews Mierlo residents about their World War II war memories

Colonialism, Second World War

Battalion Zeeland

Experiences Veterans of Battalion Zealand

Art

Henri de Wolf | Wolf is the name

Interviews for documentary Henri de Wolf

Politics and policy, Professions

Oral History on the Trade Union Movement in Indonesia Collection

Interviews in the period after independence up till 1965

@Flanders, Second World War

World War II witnesses in Bergen

Various life stories of Bergen residents

Second World War

‘I’ll be back’ collection

The project IK KOM TERUG collected the memories of civilians who had to leave their homes after the Battle of Arnhem (1944).

Activism, Women

We women demand

Twelve women tell of the fight for free abortion

Politics and policy

Taporal (Tapols-Oral History)

Interviews with ex-tapols (ex-political prisoners)

Migrants and refugees, Second World War

“Our book”

Interviews with members of Indo working group Westcoast about World War II, the Indonesian revolution, migration, Japanese internment camps and out-of-camp children.

Colonialism, Second World War

Indo in Indonesia

Interviews with individuals living in Java, Indonesia who identify as Indo/Indian.

Colonialism, War

Witnesses & Contemporaries

Within the research program Independence, decolonization, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950, the Witnesses & Contemporaries project focuses on collecting the experiences of those involved in the Netherlands, Indonesia and other countries.

Migrants and refugees

Postwar Dutch Indies period Schattenberg 1950 – 1951

In the years 1950 - 1951, Camp Westerbork functioned as a reception center or repatriation camp for Dutch Indies nationals who had just arrived in the Netherlands.

Migrants and refugees

Postwar Moluccan period Schattenberg 1951 – 1971

The Moluccan period of Westerbork , during which the camp served as a place of residence for Moluccans who had just arrived in the Netherlands.

Colonialism, Politics and policy

Nationalisation

Nationalisation of Dutch properties in Indonesia, 1957/58

Migrants and refugees, Politics and policy, War

Interview project late 1980s early 1990s

Life stories of the first generation of Moluccans in the Netherlands

Art, Professions

Graphic design, Cyprian Kościelniak and vocation

An interview with the artist Cyprian Kościelniak about his style, posters, posters and society as well as an interview with eight graphic design students about their motivation and ambitions.

Migrants and refugees

Repatriated citizens former Dutch East Indies

Interviews with Indo-Europeans and Dutch citizens repatriated from Indonesia

Colonialism, Politics and policy

Catholics, the KVP and Indonesia policy

Development of the Dutch government's Indonesia policy and in particular the stance of the KVP and the PvdA

Second World War, War

Interview collection The Never-Ending War

The question of whether veterans, regardless of their position on the 'right' or 'wrong' side, have more in common with each other than they differ from each other.

Colonialism, Faith

Interview collection West-Papua

Interviews as part of "On the road together with Papuans" and interviews with Gurus or family members

Colonialism, War

Asymmetric warfare

Interviews with veterans and military justice personnel in the Netherlands and Indonesia on Dutch military action during the Indonesian war of independence

Second World War, War

Dutch Indies collection 400

Experiences of Dutch during the Japanese occupation

Colonialism, Migrants and refugees, Second World War

Storytelling project Antara Nusa

Life stories of visitors to Nusantara Amsterdam Foundation's session afternoons

Colonialism, Migrants and refugees

Black under Orange

Dutch youngsters with a (family) background in former Dutch colonies

@Flanders, Second World War

The very last witnesses

Testimonies of people who witnessed the First World War

@Flanders, Second World War

Interviews WWII – Maurice De Wilde

Interviews with collaborators, resistance fighters, ministers, lawyers and professors about World War II

Second World War

Experiences of Sinti and Roma

Interviews on the experiences of Sinti and Roma. Return and reception after World War II.

Second World War

Last Eyewitnesses Second World War

Survivors who experienced the war first hand both in the Netherlands and in the then Dutch East Indies speak out

Migrants and refugees

Stayed in the Netherlands

History research on first-generation and partly second-generation Moluccans from the broad sections of the Moluccan community in the Netherlands

Second World War

Indonesia in your Soul

How World War II in the East Indies impacts the Netherlands today.

Second World War

Living with war experiences

Survivors' accounts of their imprisonment in German concentration and extermination camps or Japanese internment camps

Migrants and refugees, Second World War, War

East to West

Interviews with returnees on the history of the former Dutch East Indies

Migrants and refugees, Second World War, War

The war far away

Civilian, Dutch and Moluccan military personnel who lived through the years 1942 - 1962 in Indonesia and New Guinea.

@Flanders, Professions

Coal pits

Unique testimonies from ex-miners and their families

@Flanders, Activism, Women

We, women

Using testimonies and archive footage, it outlines the evolution of the position of women in our society, both privately and in public life.

Colonialism, Second World War, War

Memories of the Dutch Indies

Interviews with people from the Indonesian archipelago/Indonesia who migrated to the Netherlands

Colonialism, Migrants and refugees, War

Living Memories/Menghayati Kenangan

Life stories and the colonial part of Indonesia's history

Colonialism, Migrants and refugees

Moluccans in the Netherlands various

Moluccans who served in the Royal Navy and residents Carel Coenraadpolder

Migrants and refugees

XPATS

Interviews with former residents of Moluccan settlements

Migrants and refugees

Museum Maluku interview project

Interview project at Presentation and disclosure of Moluccan Historical Museum collections

Agriculture

Imke Klaver

Free-socialist agricultural labor leader and Frisian folk poet

Belief

Socialism

History of socialism in the Netherlands

Politics and policy

Haagse Post interviews

Interviews with Cals, Van Hall, Luns, De Pous and Vondeling

Professions

Work

Labour perceptions and minima

Film industry, Professions

Multifilm

Interviews about time at Haarlem-based film production company Multifilm

Film industry, Professions

Triofilm

Interviews about the film production company and laboratory

Professions

Veterinary Medicine

Interviews over de faculteit Diergeneeskunde Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht

City and village, Second World War

Heerlen WW-II

Heerlen in wartime, resistance fighters on their experiences

War

Spanish Civil War

Interviews with communist ex-Spain fighters

Migrants and refugees

Dutch East Indies

Dutch East Indies in the Netherlands

Second World War

Anton Mussert

Interviews outline Mussert's life course

Second World War

Camp Amersfoort

Amersfoort concentration camp in World War II

Faith, Politics and policy

Roman Catholicism

Roman Catholicism in the Netherlands

Second World War

Military Authority

Military Authority (MG) in Zeelandic Flanders, 1944-45

Resistance, Second World War

Illegality

World War II and resistance

Resistance, Second World War

Wim Bot on Marx-Lenin-Luxembourg Front and Committee of Revolutionary Marxists

The Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg front, July 1940 - April 1942

Second World War

The liberation of Roosendaal

Ineke de Wolff interviewed eight Roosendaalers for the purpose of her book the Liberation of West Brabant (1944-1945)

Second World War

Witnesses’ Stories

The Getuigenverhalen website keeps the stories and personal testimonies about the Second World War alive.

@Flanders

Liberal storytelling evenings

What made someone a liberal humanist?

Cold War

Eurocommunism and the Cold War

Interviews on Eurocommunism and Cold War implications for the unpublished VPRO television film: Socialisme met een menselijk gezicht

Colonialism, Politics and policy

Indonesia Merdeka!

Oral History Interviews for a documentary on Indonesia's fight for independence

Colonialism, Second World War, War

Papua: a history

Five centuries of Papua's history

Politics and policy

Diplomatic Witnesses

On the Netherlands' foreign policy

Professions

A good start
-giving birth in the Netherlands

The life stories, oral history, of midwives, maternity nurses and gynaecologists and the homebirth culture

@Flanders

Pioneers of liberal-humanist care

Volunteers and pioneers from liberal humanist care

@Flanders

Liberal advocates

From their commitment and conviction as humanists, they shaped the liberal associations.

@Flanders

Red or no bread

Everyone who was a member of the cooperative could share in the profits, and every worker naturally bought his bread from the cooperative.

Politics and policy

Willem Drees on socialism and Dutch politics

H. Daalder, R.P. van den Helm and R.L. Schuursma interviewed Willem Drees about socialism and Dutch politics. This produced 19.5 hours of material

@Flanders, Migrants and refugees

Destined for Ghent

The stories of Ghent as a city of migration

Politics and policy

Kees Stip and the Netherlands Government Information Service films

The interview features writer, poet, screenwriter and filmmaker Kees Stip discussing his part in the production of a number of RVD films in the 1950s. Mainly the film We live free! is discussed

Professions

Oral history of the Dutch Broadcasting Company

In this series of 170 interviews, attention is paid to the early years of De Nationale Omroep as well as the further lives of the pioneers and employees.

Art/culture, Music, Second World War

The life of componist and conductor Otto Klemperer

Philo Bregstein interviewed the then eighty-six-year-old famous composer, his daughter Lotte, and Katia Mann, the novelist Thomas Mann's wife about Klemperer's life and the musical climate in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century

Art/culture, Film industry

The murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini

On the occasion of the murder of the controversial director and artist Pasolini, Philo Bregstein interviewed four people who were closely involved in Pasolini's work and life

Art/culture

The life and work of Jacques Presser

Philo Bregstein conducted seven interviews with Jacques Presser just before his death about his childhood, history and World War II. These interviews were used for a movie and partially published as text in: 'Dingen die niet voorbijgaan: persoonlijk geschiedverhaal vertelt door Jacques Presser'

Migrants and refugees, Politics and policy

Hanuš Renner tells about Czechoslovakia

Interview with Czech Historian Hanuš Renner on his experiences in Czechoslovakia until 1968

Art/culture, Film industry

Jean Rouch and Nigerian cinema

Philo Bregstein interviewed several people from Niger involved in the work of French director and ethnologist Jean Rouch in 1977. The founding father of cinéma verité and ethnofiction was also interviewed

Activism, Second World War

Simon Wiesenthal’s hunt for justice

The famous Nazi hunter and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal speaks about his experiences with concentration camps, the GDR and war criminals

Politics and policy, Second World War

F.W. Wessels, whistleblower of the NSB

Former Regional Propaganda Inspector F.W. Wessels speaks about the NSB and World War II. As a member of the NSB in the 1930s, he spoke out against Anton Mussert

Journalism, War

War Reporting

Interviews with war reporters made on behalf of the three-part documentary series: De Waarheid Ligt Op Het Slagveld (VPRO)

Colonialism, Women

Indo-European Women’s Movement

In the interview, Van Maarseveen talks about her life in the Dutch East Indies and her role in the Indo-European women's movement.

City and village, Second World War

The arrival and reception of repatriates in Amsterdam in 1945

Reception of repatriates in the capital

Activism, Labour Movement

The FNV will not step aside

Interviews with various people about the FNV and the great strike of 1977

City and village

Life as a caravan dweller in Doetinchem

Talking with (Uncle Henk) Thijssen about his experiences as a caravan dweller in Doetinchem

Film industry, Professions

Otto van Neijenhoff and the Dutch film industry

Piet van der Ham interviewed his colleague the filmmaker Otto van Neijenhoff about his films and his relationships with other filmmakers and production companies, including Willy Mullens

Film industry, Resistance, Second World War

Sound studio Siegro

In the interview, F.M. Sieburgh talks about his experiences as a sound engineer at the sound studio Siegro

Professions

Johannes Steggerda en Wiero Beek, professors and vocation

R.L. Schuursma interviewed two professors (chemistry and physical chemistry) in 1969 about their choice of study, career, vocation and the natural sciences

Colonialism, Resistance

Carlos Rocha

Carlos Rocha, a member of the Central Committee of the liberation movement MPLA, speaks about the liberation struggle in Angola in 1974.

Politics and policy

Marcus van Blankenstein and geopolitics

R.L. Schuursma and TH.H.J Stoelinga interviewed Marcus van Blankenstein a year before his death about Dutch-Russian relations (1918-1963) and the Belgian-Dutch treaty of 1925

Second World War

Supervisor E.A. Bolte of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen and resistance

A conversation on behalf of the Gemeentearchief Arnhem with E.A. Bolte, supervisor of Dutch Railways, regarding his fate and (resistance) activities in the Second World War in Arnhem

Labour Movement

Hendrik Kuiper on the Catholic Workers’ Movement (KAB)

H.J. Kuiper recounts his experiences in the various positions he held in the Roman Catholic trade union movement

Art, Second World War

Ernst Voorhoeve, art, propaganda, Verdinaso and the NSB

Ernst Voorhoeve, Head of Propaganda Department for Public Information and the Arts (1941-1942) speaks about Verdinaso and the NSB in this interview

Art, Resistance, Second World War

Johan Hendrik van Zweden, art and resistance

In these interviews, painter-sculptor Johan Hendrik van Zweden recounts his resistance activities during the Occupation and his stay in the Vught concentration camp, where between 1943 and 1945 he made portraits of his fellow inmates

Politics and policy, Second World War

Alphons Bouwman, spokesperson for the small farmers

R. Schuurbiers and S.J. Vellenga interviewed the seventy-one-year-old Alphons Bouwman about his role in the peasant protest, the "Actie Bouwman" and his role within National Socialism

Art/culture, Politics and policy

Historian Pieter Geyl on politics, history and journalism

R.L. Schuursma interviewed the famous historian Pieter Geyl on politics, history and journalism

Art/culture

History of Sound Archive RUU and SFW

Interview with Rolf Schuursma on the development of the Historical Sound Archive within the Institute of History of the Rijks Universiteit Utrecht (RUU) in 1961 up to its incorporation into the Utrecht Film and Science Foundation in 1970.

Journalism, Professions, Second World War

Chief editor Johan Huijts and the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (1940-1945)

In these two interviews, Johan Huijts talks about his role as editor-in-chief during World War II. In 1945 he was arrested and faced the Commissie voor Perszuivering

Belief, Faith, Second World War

Wouter Lutkie, Catholicism and fascism

In 1966 R.L. Schuursma and Sj. Vellenga interviewed the idiosyncratic Catholic priest Wouter Lutkie, who had an amical relationship with Mussolini. He attended seven private audiences with the Duce

Resistance, Second World War

Karel Nort and Radio Herrijzend Nederland

R.L. Schuursma interviewed Karel Nort, who, as chief broadcaster of Radio Herrijzend Nederland reported the news of the German Capitulation on May 4, 1945

Resistance, Second World War

The spy organization “the Swiss way”

In these interviews, Gerard Slotemaker de Bruine talks about his part in the spy organization and intelligence service "the Swiss Way." During World War II, it transmitted information from Geneva and Lisbon to London

Film industry, Second World War

Jan Teunissen, the Dutch film industry and Nazism

Jan Teunissen was known as the National Socialist "film czar" during the Second World War. R.L. Schuursma interviewed him about Dutch film and his role as a National Socialist (collaborationist) director

Art/culture, Professions

The life and art of the autodidactic artist and farmer Ernst Schäublin

Philo Bregstein conducted seven interviews with the self-taught painter and Swiss farmer Ernst Schäublin in 1975. He discusses his art and his views on (art) history, religion and literature

Art/culture

Corinna van Schendel on Arthur van Schendel

Philo Bregstein interviewed Corinna van Schendel, the daughter of the writer Arthur van Schendel, in 1977. For this they visited Batavia, Florence, Sestri Levante and Amsterdam together

Art/culture, City and village

The Trommelaeren of Roesendaele (1950-1969)

For the purpose of his book, Cees Heeren interviewed several people about the Trommelaeren of Roesendaele

Politics and policy

Paul Kiès

Interview with Paul Kiès in 1968 about his life

Politics and policy, War

Gaston Leval and (Spanish) anarchism

In this interview, French anarcho-syndicalist and historian Gaston Leval speaks about the Spanish Civil War, Spanish anarchism, collectivizations and his trip to the Soviet Union in 1921

@Flanders, Art/culture

Belpop – an oral history of music

This TV program features several Belgian musicians talking about the Belgian pop scene. Every episode a new interview with an artist

Disaster

Flood disaster 1953

The Zeeland flood disaster described from the point of view of the victims themselves

Professions

Gé van der Werff

Interview with Gé van der Werff on his life as a photographer

War

The British Marine and prisoners of war

In this interview, the British non-commissioned officer William Halter speaks about his time in the British Navy and POW after the failed Battle of Antwerp

Art/culture, Colonialism, Politics and policy

Lou Lichtveld, literature and colonial Suriname

The great Surinamese writer and politician Lou Lichtveld speaks about Suriname's national governance and his literary work in this interview

Art/culture, Belief, Film industry

Catholics and cinema: film criticism and film censorship

Bob Bertina, film critic and editor of Catholic film magazines talks about Catholics' attitudes toward film after 1945

The Turkse Dordtenaren project recorded the migration history with letters, photos and interviews, resulting in a book, an exhibition and archiving in the Stadsarchief Dordrecht.

Art/culture, Second World War

Norbert Schmelzer

Interview with Norbert Schmelzer on his life and experiences during World War II

Politics and policy

Friedl Baruch on the CPN and the Soviet Union

Former member of the CPN Friedl Baruch tells his political life story. He talks about the relationship between internationalism and autonomy within the CPN

Politics and policy

Joop den Uyl on Jacques de Kadt

Three months before his death, Joop den Uyl spoke in an interview about the politician and essayist Jacques de Kadt

Activism

Vegetarians in the Netherlands

What does it mean to be a vegetarian in the Netherlands? Paul Denekamp spoke to three vegetarians from Oosterbeek on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Dutch Vegetarian Union

@Flanders, Migrants and refugees

Hungarian refugees in Flanders in 1956

Oral history interviews with 16 Hungarian refugees.

@Flanders, Architecture, Professions

An oral history of design

The Flemish Architecture Institute interviewed eight people between 2014 and 2015 about the Flemish cultural heritage of design, furniture maker as well as art experts and directors were interviewed

Art/culture, Professions

Interviews with former employees of the Zuiderzee Museum

On the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary, ten former employees and volunteers of the Zuiderzee Museum were interviewed about their work and the history of the museum

Second World War

The inhabitants of Den Dungen during World War Two

BHIC's Den Dungen Documentation collection contains approximately 40 interviews of Den Dungen residents during World War II

Second World War

German Civilians in Camp Vught

Recollections of German civilians from the Selfkant area who were forcibly evacuated from frontline territory to barracks in the vacated Vught concentration camp in the Netherlands at the time of the Ardennes offensive.

Seed Without a Name

Tine Claes conducted research on the history of infertility and unwanted childlessness, conducting more than a hundred oral history interviews with wishing parents and fertility doctors of different generations, which she processed within her broader oral history project.

Agriculture

Forward Farming [Vooruitboeren]

Sixty farmers and other representatives from the agricultural sector in Overijssel on the changes in post-war farm life.

City and village, University

Studying on campus in Twente

Stories about the first campus university in the Netherlands

Art/culture, Belief

The Dutch Reformed Church and Film

The interview discusses the relationship between the Dutch Reformed Church and Film with Pastor Willem Overbosch.

Film industry, Professions

Piet van der Ham

Interview with Piet van der Ham about his life as a filmmaker.

Second World War

The tragedy of Oxerhof

Around 2009, Huub van Sabben conducted 14 interviews about the SD prison the Oxerhof

City and village, Disaster

Enschede fireworks disaster

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the commemoration, 23 people involved spoke about their experiences of the fireworks disaster and the period after.

@Flanders, Art/culture, Politics and policy

At the home of: the lives of Belgian public figures

Nearly 300 prominent Belgian figures are featured in this interview program. They reflect on their lives and the history

City and village

The soul of the reconstruction

This collection contains 86 life stories of Rotterdam residents from different generations, countries of origin and cultures. They tell of the reconstruction

Migrants and refugees

Storia de nhas Pais

Oral history project Storia de nhas Pais ('The land of my parents') set up by Rotterdam Vertelt Foundation (SRV) and the study of the project by Leiden researchers at Night Spaces: Culture, Migration and Integration in Europe (NITE).

Second World War

Memories of my Amsterdam sister or brother

During the war years 1943-1944, about 123 Jewish children were smuggled out of Amsterdam and placed with families in northern Limburg.

Drug Monologues

The ongoing project (!) Eyewitnesses of Gas Extraction captures the personal stories of at least 100 people on video. How has Groningen's gas extraction affected our lives over the years? You can participate in this!

Politics and policy, Women

Women of the CPN

Not much was known about the experiences of female members of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) during the German occupation. To be seen and heard are twelve mostly ordinary and not very prominent female party members, who were at least 14 years old at the outbreak of WWII.

Art/culture

Jacques Presser

126 interviews conducted toward Nanda van der Zee's biography of Presser

Second World War

Civilian workers in camp Vught

In 1942, construction began on Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch, as Camp Vught was officially called. Camp Vught was the only SS concentration camp west of the German national border during World War II.

The first witnesses of our century

Interviews with people who played an active role in the history of the 20th century. Two series appeared

Women Building Living

Vrouwen Bouwen Wonen [Women Building Living] is an emancipation movement founded in the second feminist wave to improve the position of women within the male-dominated architectural world. In the 1980s, women lumbered their way through research, publications, exhibitions and the creation of the Women Building Housing network.

An oral history of the Groningen gas extraction

EU builders talking

The oral history collection “EU builders talking” is a collection of memories and information about the European integration process since 1970.

Children of the past

Oral Histories: Physiotherapy

Languages and Cultures in Utrecht’s Lombok and Transvaal districts

TCULT was an interdisciplinary research project that examined the linguistic and cultural expressions of various communities in the Utrecht districts of Lombok and Transvaal, with the aim of understanding the function and meaning of these expressions within the different groups.

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Zikinzá collection

G.F. ‘Ito’ Tromp Collection

Archive Boneire Bòi Antoin

How t was

1953, the story

Interview collection Dutch Veterans

Camp Amersfoort

Sobibor interviews 1983-1984

Interviews in Conservation Research

Interview collection Stichting Mondelinge Geschiedenis Indonesië

Breda tells

Beyond the textile

Story bank Nijmegen 2010-2019

125 years of Strowboard in Nieuweschans

Journey of the razzia

Jewish children in camp Vught

Life on country estates

Historic fruit farming

Trauma & Resilience

Narrated (In)justice

Zuiderzee project

The Moluccan perspective in wartime

Indonesian and Indo resistance in the Netherlands

Specially Unknown

Eyewitnesses of the Scholtenhuis

Black, migrant and refugee women

Victoria Factory

Fleeing from Overloon

Fleeing from Venray

Two Thousand Witnesses Tell Their Stories

Witnesses to the history of Anne Frank

Papuans in Diaspora

Collection Diederichs

Testimonies of Dutch women who had a relationship with a German man

Back in a Bite

NSB men in Westerbork

Fields of Margraten

Bystander Memories

Anna’s silent struggle: deaf in war

Dutch Missionaries (KMM)

Everything was locked

Narrated Past

Speaking Humanism

Counseling department of the armed forces

The past told

Archive and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Behavioural Sciences

Atlantikwall The Hague

Collection of interviews VNO-NCW

Metises of Belgium

Porgel & Porulan in the Resistance

Farmers’ wives and farmers’ daughters in the Second World War

Mandatory sailing for Queen and Country

Schiedam children on the go

A church split in wartime

The Russian War, uprising by Georgian troops on Texel

Experiences of Dutch citizens with quartered German soldiers

Allied bombing of the Fokker factory in Amsterdam-Noord in July 1943

Officers and non-commissioned officers of the Aruba Militia and the Aruba Volunteer Corps

Repatriated wives of Moluccan KNIL soldiers

The forgotten bombardment

Women and trade union

Hussars of Boreel

Rape and Comfort

Climb to Freedom

Merchant Navy Families in Wartime

Dutch ex-prisoners of Buchenwald camp

Dutch SS men

Nine women escape from death march 1945

NSB women in the war

Return trip to Sachsenhausen

Diversity of the Amersfoort Memory

Socialist upbringing

German maids in the Netherlands

In the light of liberation

The gay subculture in the big city, just before, during and just after World War II

Workers’ Youth Central (AJC)

Bombs and habits

The Jewish market in the Gaaspstraat in Amsterdam (1941-1943)