Laurien Vastenhout

Laurien Vastenhout is researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. She also coordinates the MA programme ‘Holocaust and Genocide Studies’ at the University of Amsterdam. She is author of Between Community and Collaboration: ‘Jewish Councils in Western Europe under Nazi Rule (Cambridge: University Press, 2022) and has published extensively on the history of the Second World War, and the persecution of the Jews in Western Europe specifically. Vastenhout has co-coordinated several photography projects and exhibitions, including De Tweede Wereldoorlog in honderd foto’s.