Leiden University and the war
Leiden University commemorates its victims of the war and pays tribute to all members of the university community who resisted injustice. Such as Rudolph Cleveringa, the dean of the Law Faculty, who protested in 1940 after the resignation of Jewish colleagues. We honour their memory through memorial meetings, the annual Cleveringa lecture and historical research.
News
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A broader perspective on the warLeiden researcher Ethan Mark has a mission, he explains in the alumni magazine Leidraad. He wants us to take off our Eurocentric glasses when we study...
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New film about the life of Ben Telders (1903-1945)Shortly before Remembrance Day, a new film was launched about the life and legacy of Ben Telders. Telders was professor of Dutch Law at Leiden Univer...
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Looking back on an extraordinary Remembrance DayThis year’s Remembrance Day on 4 May was more intimate than ever. Although it was not possible to come together as usual, an online lecture by Ethan M...
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their storiesRemembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’Through each individual decision, however small, people make history. This is what historian Katja Happe said in the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November...
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‘Don’t assume that someone else will step in’Her book ‘Veel valse hoop’ (Much False Hope) about the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands was immediately hailed as a seminal work. German his...
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How Johan Huizinga sent the Nazis packingIn 1933, Leiden held a large international student conference. It was supposed to be a celebration of unity that would bring together the French, Brit...
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Historian Katja Happe new Cleveringa Professor
German historian Katja Happe is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. She will give the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November 2019. She condu...
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Hiltje Cleveringa given first copy of her father’s biographyHiltje Cleveringa seemed moved when on 16 January she was given the first copy of the biography of her father, Rudolph Cleveringa. Peppering his speec...
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‘Cleveringa was more than a one-day hero’In his biography about Professor Rudolph Cleveringa, Kees Schuyt adds to the image we already have of this famous Leiden professor. The overriding foc...