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NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox organization The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Dutch: NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies) is an organisation in the Netherlands which maintains archives and carries out historical studies into the Second World War, 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).<ref name="merge">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

It has been part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1 January 1999.<ref name="merge"/>

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According to its website, the NIOD Institute's mission is to: Template:Quote It administers the archives of the German occupation of the Netherlands and the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, as well as large collections of clandestine newspapers and pamphlets, photographs, books and articles.<ref>KNAW page on NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies</ref>

Studies and publicationsEdit

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. The NIOD had recently made an electronic edition of the entire work, available for downloading from 11 December 2011, licensed under creative commons CC BY 3.0.<ref name=Kingdom>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

It also performed a study into the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, which led to the report Srebrenica: a 'safe' area, which led to the resignation of the second cabinet of Wim Kok.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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GalleryEdit

Main entrance at Herengracht Exhibition space at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Herengracht 380 in Amsterdam Study room of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Courtyard next to the study room

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