Dr. Pim Griffioen
Vita
2013–2015 Saul Kagan Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Claims Conference Fellowships in Advanced Shoah Studies, New York, USA; in association with the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
June–December 2012 Visiting scholar, Institute of Advanced Study Konstanz / Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg Konstanz, Germany.
2010-2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel.
2008 Ph.D. History, University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands.
1999-2009 Local investigator (part time) in the Netherlands, interdisciplinary research project Holocaust and ‘Polycracy’ in Western Europe 1940-1944, University of Konstanz, Germany.
2002-2004 Ph.D. research, The Netherlands’ Organization of Scientific Research (NWO), The Hague, The Netherlands.
1998-2001 Contract researcher (Ph.D. research), Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1994-1995 Post-M.A., Modern Jewish History/Holocaust Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
1993-1997 Historian at the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Study Center & Archives, Israel.
1993 M.A. History, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1991-1993 Project assistant (part time), Resistance Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Research Areas
Comparative History, Modern Jewish History, Antisemitism, Holocaust Studies
Function within the Center
Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study Konstanz (October 2016–March 2017)
Research project “Jewish coping strategies, hiding and escape opportunities in the Netherlands, 1940–1945, in a Western European context”
Abstract
Visiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Study Konstanz (June–December 2012)
Selected Publications
2016: Historical introduction. In: Miep Groenendijk, A hidden story between the lines. A diary by a rescuer. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, forthcoming.
2015: Westerbork. In: Dan Diner (Hrsg.): Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Band 6. Stuttgart, Weimar: J. B. Metzler, S. 379–383.
2012: Comparing the Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, France and Belgium, 1940–1945: similarities, differences, causes. Published in: Peter Romijn et al., with an introduction by Wichert ten Have, The Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1940–1945. New Perspectives. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press/Vossiuspers UvA/NIOD, December 2012, pp. 55–92. Co-authored with Ron Zeller.
2011: „The Shoah in Belgium“ (Book review of Insa Meinen, Die Shoah in Belgien), in: Yad Vashem Studies, Vol. 39/1 (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem), pp. 289–296 (also published in Hebrew translation). A slightly adapted German edition in: Einsicht 0.5. Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Instituts (Frankfurt am Main, März 2011), S. 70–72.
2011: Jodenvervolging in Nederland, Frankrijk en België 1940–1945: overeenkomsten, verschillen, oorzaken (The Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, France and Belgium, 1940–1945: similarities, differences, causes). Amsterdam: Boom Publishers, 2011 (repr. 2014); 1045 pp. Dutch text, English summary pp. 999–1011. Slightly adapted, and updated edition of Ph.D. dissertation. Co-authored with Ron Zeller.
2006: „Anti-Jewish Policy and Organization of the Deportations in France and the Netherlands, 1940–1944: A Comparative Study“, in: Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 20, Number 3 (Oxford/Washington D.C.: Oxford University Press/USHMM, Winter 2006-2007), pp. 437–473. Co-authored with Ron Zeller.
1999/2004: Albert Heymans, Jood zonder ster (Jew without a star). Westervoort: Uitgeverij Van Gruting, 1999; 127 p. (A Survivor’s Memoir. Text editing: Pim Griffioen and René van Gruting). Second, revised ed. 2004 (orig. Hebrew edition, Nahariya, Israel: Ronil Printing House, 1995). Also published in German and English.
1999: „La persécution des Juifs en Belgique et aux Pays-Bas pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale: une analyse comparative“, in: Cahiers d’Histoire du Temps Présent / Bijdragen tot de Eigentijdse Geschiedenis (CHTP/BEG) no.5 (Bruxelles: CEGES), pp. 73–132. This is an abridged version of the study which was awarded the Hartog Beem Prize 1995 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Co-authored with Ron Zeller. Slightly adapted editions were also published in English and German:
1998: „A Comparative Analysis of the Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands and Belgium during the Second World War“, in: The Netherlands’ Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (special issue, editor and introduction: Cornelis J. Lammers. Assen: Van Gorcum), pp. 126–164. Co-authored with Ron Zeller.
1996/1997: „Judenverfolgung in den Niederlanden und in Belgien während des zweiten Weltkriegs. Eine vergleichende Analyse“, in zwei Teile in: 1999, Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts 11, Heft 3 (Hamburg: Hamburger Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte, Juli 1996), S. 30–54; 12, Heft 1 (Januar 1997), S. 29–48 + Korrektur (Errata) S. 160. Co-authored with Ron Zeller.
1995: „A Concise Theoretical Analysis of Helen Fein’s work: 'Accounting for Genocide. National Responses and Jewish Victimization during the Holocaust'.“ Paper as part of the post-M.A. seminar The Place of the Shoah in Modern Jewish History. Department of Jewish History, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, March 1995; 18 p. Online publication: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pim_Griffioen/publications