117 search results for “second world war” in the Library website
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Bart van der Boom
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlies van Boekel
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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UNESCO World Heritage
The UBL holds five sets of manuscripts recognised by UNESCO as documents of universal value and exceptional significance to the world. They are included in UNESCO's International World Heritage list of documents (Memory of the World Register).
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‘Stolpersteine’ at the University Library to commemorate Leiden war victims
Two Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) have been placed in front of the University Library in memory of the Jewish Cosman family. At the time of the Second World War, they lived in one of the houses where the library is now located.
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Islamic World Special Collections
The main focus of the Islamic World Special Collections is on the Middle East and North Africa, with smaller holdings from Indonesia, the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia as far as Xinjiang, China.
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Frans Osinga
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Roos van der Haer
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Abhishek Avtans-
Faculty of Humanities
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Alies Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
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Silvia D'Amato
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Beatriz Santiago Belmonte
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga Nozdracheva
Faculty of Humanities
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Nivja de Jong
Faculty of Humanities
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Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 - Online Exhibition
Starting January 18, the online exhibition Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 can be viewed via the UBL website. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and Leiden University Libraries…
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Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Corinna Jentzsch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Eamon Aloyo
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Anneleen van der Meer
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Claire Vergerio
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
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William Michael Schmidli
Faculty of Humanities
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Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicolas Rodriguez Idarraga
Faculty of Humanities
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Juan Masullo Jimenez
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Annelies Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
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Oran Kennedy
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden victims of WWII given a face
Every year on 26 November Leiden University commemorates the protest speech given by Professor Cleveringa against the Nazis. At least 663 students, staff and alumni of the University lost their lives during the Second World War, yet little was known about these victims. PhD candidate Adriënne Baars…
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Mahmood Yenkimaleki
Faculty of Humanities
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Jin Hee Park
Faculty of Humanities
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Ae Ree Nam
Faculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Paul Meyboom
Faculteit Archeologie
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Photographs
The photographs collection of Leiden University Librarie (UBL) contains specimens of almost all photographic processes from the history of the medium, rare objects and artistic highlights. Together, they shed light on the history of photography as a technique, a means of scientific, historic and personal…
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Memorial stone points to turbulent history of Indonesian students
A new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Leiden before and during the Second World War. Some of them were active in the Resistance, which cost a number of them their lives.
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.
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Carmen Kleinherenbrink
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Lemmen
Faculty of Humanities
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Keiko Yoshioka
Faculty of Humanities
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Ying-ting Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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I-Hsien Lin
Faculty of Humanities
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Dick Smakman
Faculty of Humanities
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Johanneke Caspers
Faculty of Humanities
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UN World Philosophy Day - a reading list
Today is World Philosophy Day. We asked three staff members from the Leiden Institute for Philosophy to name three of their favourite works from the Leiden University Library (UBL) collections. What is: the best introduction to philosophy, the best philosophical work published in the last few years…
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
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importance of preserving documentary heritage: UNESCO Memory of the World register
One of the main functions of a University Library is the preservation of documentary heritage. Not just to facilitate research and education, but also because this heritage in many ways represents our collective memory. UNESCO has been registering special and often threatened documents in the international…
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Merlijn Veltman
Faculteit Archeologie