Daan de Leeuw received his PhD Candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, USA. In his dissertation, he analyzes Jewish slave labor during the Holocaust, researching the victims’ experiences from a spatial perspective. Prior to his doctoral studies, de Leeuw worked at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam as research assistant and as Project Manager of EHRI. Daan is Postdoc-researcher of subproject 3.
Nia Raycheva holds a bachelor's degree in European studies from Maastricht University and she is currently in her second year of the research master's program in Modern and Contemporary History at Utrecht University. Her main interests lie in the histoy of mass violence in the Balkans. In 2024, she joined the project as an intern, mapping the available sources and possibilities for research into the local dynamics of the Holocaust in Bulgaria.
Handing out identity cards. Source: Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam
Prof.dr. Ido de Haan is the formal supervisor (promotor) of the PhDs in Subprojects 1 and 2.
Since 2003, De Haan is professor of Political History at Utrecht University. He has taught and published extensively on the history and memory of the Holocaust and other forms of large-scale and genocidal violence, and previously collaborated nationally and internationally in a series of projects related to the history of the Holocaust.
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Catharine Aretakis did her Bachelor's degree in History and English with a minor in Jewish Studies at the University of South Carolina Honors College from 2017-2020. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam's Master's programme Holocaust and Genocide Studies in 2021. Subproject 1 is Catherine's PhD-research project.
Roy Orel Shukrun completed his PhD at the University of Groningen and McGill University in Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies. He defended his dissertation, Returning to Routes: The Emergence of a Moroccan Jewish Diaspora in the Twentieth Century explores how, in the wake of mass emigration, in January 2025. Subproject 2 is Roy's Postdoc-research project.
Dr. Geraldien von Frijtag leads the research team at the section of Political History at Utrecht University, which she joined in 2004. She publishes widely on the Nazi-era and the Holocaust and has a long track-record of coordinating international and national collaborative research. In her most recent work, Von Frijtag engages with micro- and local history of the Holocaust, which makes her a qualified scholar for the supervision of Subprojects 1 and 2.
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Dr. Dienke Hondius supervises Subproject 3 and coordinates the production of the Atlas of the Provinzentjudung at the Department of Art and Culture, History, Antiquity at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam which she joined in 2004. She is staff member of international educational projects at Anne Frank House and publishes in the fields of Holocaust Studies, Race and Racism studies, Slavery, and Oral History. She is a pioneering Dutch scholar in the field of DH. Her current research is a spatial study of hiding places in the Holocaust.
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The research team
