🇳🇱 How close are you to Dutch greatness?
This week’s #ConnectionCheckers features famous Dutch figures like Vincent van Gogh, Dick Bruna, Mata Hari, Anthony Fokker, MC Escher, and more!
Trace your connection and join the fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Qz9TsJ1Do&list=PLEqK4ICkQWXRVpB7mRZ9YVB9kYHGSt9Vh
#GenealogyGame #DutchNotables #FamilyHistory #CollaborativeGenealogy #VincentVanGogh #MataHari #MCEScher #NetherlandsHistory
National Library of the Netherlands, and machine-translated from Dutch: KB calls for more openness about heritage threats after incidents. “The KB national library has had to deal with several incidents in recent years that threatened the national library collection. In 2023, a small fire in a technical installation resulted in smoke development that affected parts of both the physical and […]
Little Black Book: Bringing a Century of Dutch Media to Life. “In Hilversum, there’s an entire trove of Dutch television and radio history hidden in the digital archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (Beeld & Geluid). Now, an ambitious partnership is underway to unlock this nearly century-old audiovisual heritage for everyone. Triple, a digital agency that is part of the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/24/little-black-book-bringing-a-century-of-dutch-media-to-life/
Dutch News: New legislation will open WWII collaboration archive: minister. “Education and culture minister Eppo Bruins is preparing new legislation which will open controversial digital archives on possible collaborators during World War II to the general public, he told current affairs programme Buitenhof at the weekend. The archives should have been fully online from January 1, but that […]
Dutch News: National archive warns of mistakes in list of WWII collaborators. “The list of some 425,000 names has been public since last week, and demand for more information has been so high that no more appointments are currently being made for people who want to view the actual files. However, according to the Telegraaf, some of the names in the archives are actually those of Dutch Jews […]
The Guardian: Netherlands to open archive on people accused of wartime Nazi collaboration. “For 80 years, details of their ancestors’ collaboration with the Nazis have been buried in spotless rows of filing cabinets in The Hague. But thousands of Dutch families face having their relatives’ history laid bare later this week when an archive opens on 425,000 people accused of siding with the […]
