After a successful first edition in 2024, the lecture series ‘PhD candidates on stage’ will return to the Resistance Museum in 2025.

Historians from the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies share surprising insights from recent research and bring underexposed stories from the history of the Second World War and decolonization to life.

With topics such as the nightlife in Amsterdam during the occupation, Funktionshäftlingen in Mauthausen, Poncke Princen and Jewish refugees on Curaçao and Suriname, the lecture series offers fascinating stories for students, history buffs and anyone interested in this special and radical period.

The lectures take place on the third Tuesday from February to May, each at 4 p.m. in the Resistance Museum. Regular admission: €15 per lecture, passe-partout: €45. Discounts apply to students, Friends of the Resistance Museum, Museum Card and City Pass holders (€10 per lecture, passe-partout: €30). All prices include a museum visit and closing drinks. Tickets: www.verzetsmuseum.org.

First lectures in the series

• Tuesday February 18 Niels Mathijssen, How radical was Poncke Princen? On the explanatory power of the biographical method. In 1948, the Dutch soldier Poncke Princen deserted and fought on the side of the Indonesian nationalists against the Netherlands. Niels Mathijssen investigates how his background and circumstances explain this choice.
• Tuesday, March 18 Gerry Faber, Funktionshäftlingen from the Mauthausen complex in court. Gerry Faber highlights the Funktionshäftlinge, prisoners who fulfilled a double role in concentration camps: they were victims of the Nazi regime, but also perpetrators through their role as supervisors.
• Tuesday April 15, Merel Meijer, Going out in Amsterdam during the occupation
• Tuesday, May 20, Rosa de Jong, Jewish refugees in Curaçao and Suriname – The Caribbean took responsibility

Resistance Museum Amsterdam, Plantage Kerklaan 61A