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
-
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...
-
‘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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
‘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...
-
On the trail of CleveringaHe is primarily known for his protest speech against the dismissal of his Jewish teacher Eduard Meijers, but who was the man behind this iconic figure...
-
'Why aren't those children at school?'The new privacy laws make it more difficult to combat human trafficking: under-age victims are often not registered. In her lecture, Cleveringa Profes...
-
‘Dutch people should take human trafficking more seriously'Citizens underestimate their role, but they really can make a difference, says legal specialist Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen. Combatting injustice is ...
-
Delegation Leiden Law School to IndonesiaAt the end of November/early December a delegation from Leiden Law School, led by Dean Joanne van der Leun, will a number of various partner universit...