Petra van den Boomgaard

Petra van den Boomgaard is Assistant Professor Transitional Justice at University College Utrecht. During her PhD research at the University of Amsterdam she analysed the so-called ‘Calmeyer-gevallen’, for which she was the first to make use of all personal files of the war archive of the Rijksinspectie van de Bevolkingsregisters, the Collectie Calmeyer. Subsequently, in 2019 she published Voor de nazis geen Jood (Verbum). She is board member of de Stichting Sobibor, where she is involved in the organisation of the annual commemorative tour to Sobibor, Poland.