Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD)

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is a national and international centre of expertise for interdisciplinary research into the history of world wars, mass violence, and genocides, including their long-term social consequences. In addition, NIOD collects, preserves, and provides access to archives and collections, especially about the Second World War, and provides information to a broad public, the media, and governmental institutions.

NIOD: from the Netherlands Government Bureau for War Documentation to the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

The Institute was founded on 8 May 1945 to map the history of the Second World War in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies through independent research. This is still one of the aims of NIOD, but compared to the early days, the Institute has considerably broadened its field of activity. 

Themes such as perpetratorship, memories, and trauma, transitional justice, restoration of rights, regime changes and behaviour and experiences recur in several studies and show the ambition of NIOD: to conduct research in a comparative and multidisciplinary manner into the causes, course, character, and aftermath of diverse forms of mass violence in the 20th and 21st century. 

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is a national and international knowledge and expertise centre that, with independent and socially-oriented research and an active collection policy, aims to make connections, both temporally and geographically, and to show that the violence of war did not stop in May 1945 or at the borders of the nation.

Since 1 January 1999, the Institute has been part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences