SELMA LEYDESDORFF

7.11.49, Djakarta

1950-1954, Suriname

since 1954 the Netherlands

Professional address

University of Amsterdam

Faculty of Humanities

Current position

Professor of Oral History and Culture, University of Amsterdam (UvA), Faculty of Humanities

Education

1969                Study in Arts, Florence, Italy

1972                MA in Modern History: History of Public Opinion and Italian

1975                Doctorate in Modern History: History of Public Opinion, Economic History, 18th Century Dutch Language

1987                Ph.D. in Modern History: We lived in Dignity, The Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam 1900-1940

Career

1973-1974       Assistant in Theoretical and Historical Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, UvA

1977-1992       Assistant professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Social Sciences, UvA

1992-2002       Director and chair of de Belle van Zuylen Instituut, Postgraduate Center for Genderstudies, UvA

2002-2004       Professor at the Belle van Zuylen Instituut, UvA

1999-2004       Chair Netherlands Research School of Women's studies

2004-               Professor Oral History and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, UvA

2002-2010       Chair of the National Commission of the Royal Academy on the History and Culture of Jews in the Netherlands

2004-               Member of staff of Huizinga, National Research School for Cultural History

Awards and honours

2008                Awarded by Bosniaci.net Organization of the Bosnian Diaspora in New York

2009                Bosnian Person of the Year, Award from the Bosnian Community in the Netherlands

2007-2008       Invited Fellow Remarque Institute New York University

2008                Awarded a competitive grant exchange NYU/UvA

2009                Presentation of my book to the presidency of Bosnia Herzegovina (July)

2010                Invited Scholar Memory & Memorialization Program (Paris-Caen-New York, CNRS)

2010                Grant Memorial de Caen

2012                Grant Anne Frank Foundation, Dutch embassy Moscow

2012                Grant W.E.Janssen Foundation

2013                Grant Foundation Jewish Memorial Culture New York

2013                Grant Rabbi Israel Miller Fund (Jewish Claims Conference)

2014                Visiting Grant American Oral History Ass. Madison/Wisconsin

Special events

1993                Life presentation on National Television of my book “Het water en de herinnering” at the National Commemoration of the floods of 1953 in Zeeland

2009                Sobibor Commemoration lecture

2010                Consultant PBS/channel 13, documentary on Rapes in Foca (Women, Peace and War)

2010                Presentation on National Television of 65 Years Liberation of Auschwitz, commenting on ceremony in Poland

2011                Presentation together with PBS of book on Srebrenica to special representative UN

2011                Presentation website “The Long Shadow of Sobibor” with interviews around the Demjanjuk trial

Current interests

Oral History, memory, life stories, stories of trauma, life stories of genocide survival, Srebrenica, war in the Balkans

Forgotten histories of the Second World War, resistance by Jews

Biographies of survivors

Trauma and Life Stories

Past and present research

The building of a website www.lategevolgenvansobibor.nl

Background of uprising of Sobibor

Trauma and Life Stories

Political Past

Cofounder of the following political feminist initiatives:

Dolle Mina (the major feminist movement in the Netherlands, 1970)

Wij Vrouwen Eisen (secretary of the National Abortion Campaign, 1974-76)

Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis 1976 (major publication to create a platform for women’s history)

Women’s studies in the Netherlands

Women’s history in the Netherlands, 1995-1998

Member Board Dutch Research school on Women's Studies

Academic activities

1985-1988       Member of the women's studies research council University of Amsterdam (OZV)

1985-1991       National Science Committee, section Women's Studies (WVEO/NWO)

1986-1996       Chair National Oral History Association

1990-1996       Secretary International Oral History Association

1990-1997       Secretary of l’Association de Development de l’Approche Biographique

1990-1995       Editor International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories

1995-2001       Editor Memory and Narrative

2001                Principal editor Memory and Narrative

2002-2009       Chair National Commission of the History and Culture of Jews in the Netherlands of Royal Dutch Academy

2009-2010       Academic support Committee Demjanjuk Trial

2010-2011       Visiting Scholar CNRS/NYU programme Memory and Memoralization

2011                Consultant PBS, New York in project Women, War and Peace

2015                Supervisor New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art, Marie Curie-project

2016                Co-organizer conference Unknown Special, an interview project with refugees

2016                Advisory Board Stumbling Stones Zeeland

2016                Consultant Belspo, Belgian national endowment for research

2017                Chair expertboard National Commission on forced adoption, Ministry of Safety and Justice

2017-2018       Chair postdoctoral research National Endowment Humanities (NOW/Veni)

2020-2026       Chiefeditor Handbook of Global Oral History correspondence with 29 international authors

Research (related) activities

1977-1989       Correspondent of The History Workshop, a Journal of Socialist and Feminist Historians

1977-1979       Consultant of Feminist Studies

1979-1983       International Research Group ‘New Women, new family in the interwar period’, meetings in France and the US

1983-84           Adviser and researcher for a documentary on industrial organization in collaboration with FNV: Altijd die spanning. Discussions on relation between politics and visual history

1984-85           Unesco group: ‘Experts on Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Approaches on the Role of Women in History as actors in economic, social, political and ideological processes’

1984                Visiting scholar European University Florence

1989                Workshop Memorial Moscow (oral history)

1990-               Associated Editor Women's History Review

1991-               Associate editor Gender and History

1991-1994       Erasmus group working on curriculum on working class history

1993                Presentation of book on floods at national commemoration

1993                Visiting professor, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

1994                Arnenberg Seminar for distinguished scholars, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia

1995                Visiting professor Anton de Kom University, Suriname

1996                Visiting Scholar Rutgers Centre for Historical Analysis

1996                Chair and organizer NWO-expert meeting on oral history

1997-2004       Network chair Oral History of the European Social Science History Conference

1998-2001       Supervisor oral history research Women, Islam, Development

2001                Organizer of an expert meeting on memory and life stories of transnational families

2001-2004       Supervisor for Benelux and France for international Mauthausen survivors project

2003-2009       Women of Srebrenica project

2003-               Principal editor of Memory and Narratives Transaction publishers New Jersey

2004                Visiting professor, Sabanci University, Istanbul

2003-2004       Editor of special issue of Global Networks on memories of gender in Transnational families

2004-2006       International Project on Forced Labour in the Second World War

2005                Seminar Oral History Tbilisi, Georgia

2005                Associate Rutgers University, Center for Historical Analysis

2006                Supervision oral History School Sarajevo

2006                Visiting professor Xiamen China, teaching oral history

2007                Visiting professor NYU

2008                Fellow Remarque Institute NYU

2009-               Late Consequences of Sobibor project

2009-2010       Mauthausen survivors project stage 2

2010-2011       Visiting Scholar CNRS/NYU programme Memory and Memorialization

2011                Associate CNRS/NYU programme Memory and Memorialization

2016                Athens: co-organizer workshop ‘Unwanted Histories’

2016                Athens: co-organizer workshop ‘The Return of Jews’

2018                Organizer Masterclass on Trauma, Int Oral History Association Conference Finland, Jyväskylä

2019                Consultant FED-tWIN programme Belgium

2019                Visiting professor J.F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin

2019                Speaker Wiesenthal Zentrum, Vienna

2019                Reviewer Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

2020                Supervisor dissertation University of New England, Australia

2020                Co-organizer public lecture series: Dit hebben wij in huis

2020                Memorial Symposium The Floods of 1953 in Zeeland

Major international lectures

1987                Bielefeld, Tagung der Deutsche Soziologische Verein: Surviving camps

1988                National Life Story Collection, London: Interviewing victims

1989                Memorial Moscow. Seminars about theory and techni­ques of oral history; trauma

1989                Int. Oral History Conference in Bad Homburg: State of the art

1990                International Oral History Conference in Essen: Working class culture

1990                Turin: Memory

1991                Jerusalem: distortions in post-war memory

1992                Paris VII: Feminism, memory and the war

1993                National commemoration on the floods of 1953, official speech

1993                Sienna: Oral History and environment

1993                Paris VII: Nations, Europe, immigrants

1993                Bilbao/Spain: Stories mothers tell their daughters

1994                Birmingham/Alabama: Beyond Gender Race and Class

1994                Dickinson/Carlisle: Feminism in the US and Europe, a comparative perspective

1994                Belfast: Memory and Transmission of culture

1994                Frankfurt: Veränderung des Kollektiven Gedächtnis

1994                New York/ New School for Social R.: The language of European feminism and the right

1994                Yale/New Haven: Discussion We lived with Dignity

1994                University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Memory and Poverty

1994                Albuquerque (N.M.): Workshop Jewish History at American Oral History Ass

1994                New York, International Oral History Conference: Closing panel: Women’s voices

1994                Berlin, Dreyfuss Memorial: Memory

1995                Essex: The story told with the help of the Bible

1995                Oxford, Antillean Women and their immigration

1995                Milwaukee, American Oral History Ass.: War and floods, traumatic experiences

1996                European Social Science History Conference panel: Social history and gender

1997                New Orleans, American Oral History Association: Antillean Women, Migrants

1998                Closing panel and keynote speech International Oral History Association: The future of Oral History, Rio de Janeiro

1999                Women's Studies and the Voice of women, Lecture at Sana'a University in Yemen, Conference Challenges of Women's Studies in the Twenty First Century

1999                Grenoble: Les inundations et les reactions humaines. l'Histoire Orale

2000                Bangladesh, Dacca: The stories of women as method for research in Women's histories

2000                Xiamen, China, National Organisation of Anthropologists: Oral history as a research method

2000                Istanbul, International Oral History Association: Women and Islam

2001                EADI, development studies: methodological discussion on life story approach

2001                Life stories of Trauma; conference organised by the Foundation 40- 45 on refugee experiences

2002                Vienna: Seminar organised for the Int. Mauthausen project

2004                Roma: The Official language and the Voice of the Survivors of Srebrenica

2004                Berlin ESSHC, The Literary Witness and the Mauthausen survivor

2004                Berlin ESSHC Roundtable war memories and memories of oppression

2004                Vancouver: No Place to go to, conference Memory and Place

2005                Tel Aviv: No Place to speak from, conference Beyond Religion

2005                Istanbul: The Meaning of the Personal Narrative: Genocide Survivors of Srebrenica try to speak. Workshop Narrative and Human Rights, Sabanci University

2005                Sarajevo: The Women of Srebrenica Speak. Conference Genocide against Bosniaks

2005                Los Angeles: The many languages and silenced voices of the women of Srebrenica, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, History dept. UCLA

2005                Providence: Women Speaking Out Against Genocide: Srebrenica, American Oral History Ass. Conference, Voices of Hope

2006                Berkeley: “When My Community Fell Apart and My Neighbor Became an Enemy’: Stories from Srebrenica

2006                Sarajevo: Oral Histories and Its Challenge to Changes in Collective Memories, International Forum Bosnia

2007                Amsterdam: When your friends and neighbors become your enemies Listening to the tales of the Survivors of Srebrenica. Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

2007                Salzburg: The History of the Inconceivable as Chaotic Narratives on Srebrenica, Conference The Meaning of Narrative

2007                Amsterdam: Micro histories: The Meaning of Narrative Listening to the tales of the survivors of Srebrenica. Conference Making the Past, Praemium Erasmianum in honor of Peter Forgacs

2008                New Haven: Surviving the Massacre of Srebrenica: Oral Histories in series Genocide Studies Programme, Yale University

2008                New Brunswick: The Layered Memories of the Women who Survived Srebrenica, Rutgers University, Dept of Women’s and Gender Studies

2008                New York: The Women of Srebrenica and the Impossibilities of Memory, Trauma and Violence Interdisciplinary Studies (New York University)

2008                New York: When your Friends and Neighbors become Enemies. Listening to the Tales of the Survivors of Srebrenica, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and The Network of East-West Women, New York University

2008                Stanford: How Can We Live After This? Women's Memories of Srebrenica. Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Forum on Contemporary Europe Stanford, Clayman Institute for Gender Studies Stanford

2008                Connecticut: Survivors of Srebrenica and Human Rights, Conference ‘In The Balance: Humanitarianism and Responsibility, Storrs

2008                Amsterdam: The Task of the Historian, day on Srebrenica organized by Humanitarianism in Action

2008                Vienna: Comment Round Table Humanity and The Experience of Violence and Genocide on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention, Austria

2008                Vienna: Participation International Workshop ‘Routes to Mauthausen’, panel Western Europe, Vienna Bolzman Institute, University Wien

2008                The Hague: ‘Compensating in Other Ways’ 60 Years Genocide Convention, Vredespaleis

2009                New York: How shall we remember Srebrenica, Conference memory and the Future, New School for Social research

2009                New York: Presentation Przazninu ostaviti iza nas to Amerivan Bosnian Association

2009                Presentations Sarajevo and Tuzla (March)

2009                Amsterdam: How shall we remember Srebrenica? Will juridical knowledge structure our memory? Lecture Praemium Erasmianum, conference Recording Mass atrocity

2010                New York: ‘Listening to the ‘Truth’ of the Women who Survived Srebrenica against other Forms of ‘Truth’, Columbia University

2010                New York: Reinventing a forgotten Concentration Camp: The Coplaintifs and the Demjanjuk case, Conference The Limits of Memory, New School for Social research

2010                Prague: The Particularities of interviewing about Trauma: Srebrenica and possibilities for a comparative approach, International Conference Oral history association

2010                Prague: Master class Trauma and Oral History, XVI International Oral History Conference

2010                Helsinki: Which are the obstacles in case of interviews with traumatized people? Helsinki Northern Anthropology Conference

2011                New York: How can we inscribe traumatisation beyond history in history seminar: ‘Impossible Narratives.’ Historicizing Mass Trauma Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought

2011                New York: Organization of seminar: Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics & Society. A presentation of the book published in the series "Palgrave MacMillan Memory Studies"

2011                Montreal: Of the record Workshop, “When There is So Much Confusion and Fragmentation, One Needs a Strong Guide: Rethinking my Role during Interviews with Severely Traumatized Narrators”

2011                New York: Discussion Jacques Revel, history (EHESS), "History, Trauma & Memory", commenting: Marie-Claire Lavabre (CNRS), sociology, Selma Leydesdorff, history (UvA)

2011                Washington: Collogue: ‘From 11 to 12 September The individual and the state face terrorism; Du 11 au 12 septembre, l’Individu et l’Etat face au terrorisme’. Oral Histories of Trauma

2011                New York: History and Memory in Digital Archives: Scholarly Uses and Misuses. A workshop organized by Selma Leydesdorff (UvA / UMI Transitions) & Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union)

2011                Amsterdam: Illustere School Amsterdam. De nabestaanden van Srebrenica

2011                Amsterdam: Illustere School Amsterdam. Late Gevolgen van Sobibor

2011                Utrecht: Presentation Water and Memory for Stichting Cultural Aid Art project Liquid Motions

2011                Amsterdam: Interviews around the trial of Demjanjuk; personal involvement. Lezing voor de werkgroep Oral History van het Huiznga Instituut UvA

2011                New York: Presentation ‘Surviving the Bosnian Genocide’

2011                Brussels: keynote Centre détudes et documentation Guerre et Sociétés Contemporaines/ Studie en Documentatie Centrum oorlog en hedendaagse Maatschappij. State of the Art

2011                Budapest: New Approaches and Methodological Challenges in Jewish Studies: Critical Readings of Testimonies, International Workshop in the frame of Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of CEU (keynote). Jewish Studies Public Lecture

2012                Graduierten Kolleg, Deutschland Institute Amsterdam, Life with Totalitarian Violence (Leben Unter Totalitaren Gewalt)

2012                Oral History within the Context of Violence, The Voices of Victims of Terrorism and Countering Radicalization (The Hague) Network Associations of Victims of terrorism

2012                Local Stories, Methods and Approaches in Oral History, Netherlands Institute Istanbul

2013                Gainesville/Florida, Memory of Srebrenica

2013                Gainesville/Florida How to study someone like Aleksander Pechersky

2013                Sobibor commemoration speech

2013                Los Angeles: Sacha Pecherski: The Forgotten Leader of the Resistance in Sobibor in: International Workshop 2013; Resisting the Path to Genocide: Individual Resistance

2013                Den Haag: Beyond the language of the courtroom: the narratives of the survivors of Srebrenica, conference Cultures of War and Piece

2013                Madison, Wisconsin, European Center of Excellence: The Narratives of the Survivors of Srebrenica, invited lecture

2013                Amsterdam: Sascha Pechersky, The forgotten leader of the Sobibor resistance, Conference ‘Competing Memories’

2014                Sarajevo: Presentation ‘Surviving the Bosnian Genocide’ International Forum Bosnia

2014                Amsterdam: Narrative Exposure Therapy: The Women of Srebrenica, organized by Center ’45

2014                The Victim and the Sobibor Trials: Kiev (1962/63), Hagen (1965/66), Munich/Demjanjuk (2009/11) Conference: The Trial Record as a Historical Source The Hague 19 June 2014

2014                Panel Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis, American Oral History Ass. Madison Wisconsin

2014                Chair and commentator: Trauma Testimonies, Am Oral History ass . Madison, Wisconsin

2015                Invited Speaker University of Göteborg

2016                Athens: Narratives of Survivors of Srebrenica: How Do They Reconnect to the World?

2016                invited first keynote: European Society for Trauma and Dissociation, Amsterdam

2016                Athens: Aleksandr Pechersky’s War Narrative: Wanting to Speak and to be silenced

2016                Athens: ‘My parents were killed in Sobibor, but it feels as if I was there’: the idea Of Postmemory in Life Story interviews

2017                Jerusalem: ‘My parents were killed in Sobibor’ Memory and oral history

2017                Presentation of book on Pechersky at UvA (farewell speech)

2017                Presentation of book on Pechersky at New York University

2017                Presentation of book on Pechersky Museum of Jewish Heritage New York

2018                Veterans institute: Aleksandr Pechersky {Sasha}, de Joodse held van Sobibor; Het Verhaal, trauma en herinnering

2018                Dissonance between Feelings of Safety and Destruction Pre-Genocide. Warnings and Readiness to protect. Copenhagen

2018                Presentation of the Dutch edition of the book on Pechersky

2018                Sobibor lecture, remembering 75 years ago

2019                What are Interviews About the Shoah Telling us Beside Hard ‘Facts’, Wiesenthal Center Vienna

2019                Development of oral history from ‘factfinding’ to questions about presentation, Berlin

2021                Conducting Oral Histories with Srebenica Genocide Survivors, New York Kupferberg Holocaust Center

2022                Witnessing the War in Ukraine, Krakow Poland

2024                Listening to Testimonies of Mass Atrocities: Past Lessons and New Opportunities, Amsterdam, EHRI, USC Shoah Foundation

Published Books

Verborgen Arbeid, Vergeten Arbeid. Een verkenning in de geschiedenis van de vrouwenarbeid rond negentienhonderd (Assen, Van Gorcum, 1977)

Wij hebben als Mens geleefd: het Joodse Proletariaat van Amsterdam, 1900-1940 (Diss.; Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1987)

Het water en de herinnering, De Zeeuwse watersnoodramp 1953-93 Amsterdam (Meulenhoff, 1993)

Wir haben als mensch Gelebt (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp 1993)

We lived with Dignity, The Jewish proletariat of Amsterdam 1900-1940 (Wayne State University Press 1998)

De Mensen en de Woorden, Geschiedenis op basis van verhalen (Meulenhoff, Amsterdam)

De Leegte achter ons Laten, Een Geschiedenis van de Vrouwen van Srebrenica (Bert Bakker, Amsterdam March 2008)

Prazninu ostaviti iza nas, Istorija Žene Srebrenice (Rabic, Sarajevo 2009)

Surviving Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica speak, Indiana University Press (revised edition of the book originally in Dutch) , reprint in paperback 2015

De Mensen en de Woorden , republished as e-book

Sasha Pechersky, Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader and Hostage of History (Routledge, London 2017), paperback 2018

Sasha Pechersky, De Russische soldaat die de opstand van Sobibor leidde, (Prometheus, Amsterdam), 2018

Edited books

Te Elfder Ure nr. 20, speciaal nr. over het feminisme (Nijmegen, 1975)

Israël, een Blanco Cheque, i.s.m. M. van Weezel en M. Mock (Amsterdam, 1984)

Zielig Zijn We Niet: het politieke Verzet van Bijstandsvrouwen, eindred. J. Bussemaker (Amsterdam, 1985)

Te Elfder Ure nr. 39, 'Dilemma's van het Feminisme' (Nijmegen, 1986)

Vrouwenlexicon. Tweehonderd Jaar Emancipatie van A tot Z, i.s.m. Hedy d'Ancona e.a. (Utrecht, 1989)

International Yearbook for Oral History and Life Stories, vol. I, II,III. Vol. IV is a special issue: With L. Passerini and P. Thompson, vol. IV, Gender and Memory (Oxford, 1996)

With K. Lacy Rogers and G. Dawson, Memory and Trauma (Routledge, 1999)

With M. Chamberlain, Global Networks, A Journal of Transnational Affairs, IV, 3. 2004, Special Issue on Transnational Families: Memories and Narratives

With K. Lacy Rogers, S. Leydesdorff, Life Stories ofSurvivors, New Brunswick, London: Transaction publishers 2004 (reprint), pp. 1-27

With N. Adler, MC Chamberlain, L. Neyzi, Memories Of Mass Repression, Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity, (New Brunswick, London 2008

With N. Adler, The Tapestry of Memory, Testimony and Evidence in Life- Story Narratives (New Brunswick, London:Transaction Publishers) 2013

Selma Leydesdorff, Harry Mock, Het Joodse proletariaat van Amsterdam 1900-1940 in woord en beeld (Amsterdam: Amphora) 2022

Articles

2025 forthcoming

Selma Leydesdorff, Ein Staat im Staat. Handarbeiten an der Identität in und nach Mauthausen, in: Alexander Prenninger, Gerhard Botz, Regina Fritz and Heinrich Berger (Ed.), Mauthausen überleben und erinnern, Wien-Köln forthcoming 2025, 22 pages

2025

Selma Leydesdorff, Grimmige confrontatie tussen Goed en Slecht, De Vrijdagavond, 10 februari 2025

2024

Selma Leydesdorff Das gebrochene Schweigen Lebensgeschichten von Ueberlebendendes jüdischen Proletariats in Amsterdam Bios Zeitschrift fur Biographieforschun,Oral History und Lebeslaufanalysen (reprint 30 Jahre Bios).7-17

2023

Selma Leydesdorff’ “Changing Memories of the Shoah in Post-Communist Countries: New Memories and Conflict” in Thomas de Gloma, Janet Jacobs Interpreting Contentious Memory (Bristol University Press: Bristol) 217-238

Selma Leydesdorff ‘The Narratives of the survivors of Srebrenica’ in Philip Carabott, Willem W. Ledeboer Encounters with Troubled Pasts in Contemporary Dutch and Greek historiography (Leiden: Sidestone Press) 109- 116 Publication Netherlands Institute in Athens

2021

Selma Leydesdorff “My parents were killed in Sobibor but it feels as if I was there”, A Historian Encountering Imagination in Sobibor-Related Interviews, in D. Michman (ed.) Egodocuments in Dutch Jewish History (Amsterdam: Amphora) 2023 171-191

2020

Selma Leydesdorff, ‘Zandstraat 14-driehoog’, in Frits Rijksbaron, Esther Shaya, Gert Jan de Vries (red.), Joodse Huizen 6, (Amsterdam: Amphora) 191-198

2019

Сельма Ляйдесдорф Собибор глазами выживших, L. Terusckin, K.Pachalion Sobibor (Moscow: Center Holocaust) 2019, 40-114

S. Leydesdorff, ‘My parents were killed in Sobibor, but it feels as if I was there: Imagination in my Interviews’ Historein, Athene, vol 18,2 (2019)

S. Leydesdorff, ‘Valkenbrgerstraat 200’, in: Frits Rijksbaron, Esther Shaya, Gert Jan de Vries (red.) , Joodse Huizen 5, (Amsterdam: Gibbon) 193-199

2018

S. Leydesdorff, ‘Narratives of the Survivors of Srebrenica: How do they reconnect to the world?’ in : E. Bemporad, J.W.Warren, Women and Genocide, Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators (Bloomsburry: Indiana University Pres) 250-268

S. Leydesdorff, ‘Staalstraat 3’, in: Frits Rijksbaron, Esther Shaya, Gert Jan de Vries, Joodse Huizen 4 (Amsterdam, Gibbon) 156-163

S. Leydesdorff, ‘De dieren en de mensen’, in: A. Jurgens, Harry van Kruiningen, Op zoek naar Waarheid en Schoonheid (Eburon: Den Haag) 92-97

S. Leydesdorff, ‘Dissonance between Feelings of Safety and Destruction’, in: A. Jerichow, C.F.S. Banke (eds.), Pregenocide< warnings and Readiness to Protect, (Humanity in Action: Denmark) 64-72

Сельма Ляйдесдорф Собибор глазами выживших, Moscow

2016

S. Leydesdorff, ‘Aleksandr (Sasha) Pechersky (1909-1990): In Search of a Life Story’ in: The Routledge international Handbook on Narrative and Life story (London: Routledge) 318-331

2015

S. Leydesdorff, ‘Distortions in Survivor’s narratives from Srebrenica: The Impossibility of Conveying Their Truth’, in: Amy E. Randal, Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century, A comparative Survey. (London: Bloomsburry Press) 258-275

2014

S. Leydesdorff (2014). ‘When all is lost: Metanarrative in the Oral History of Hanifa, Survivor of Srebrenica’, in M. Cave & S.M. Sloan (Eds.), Listening on the edge: oral history in the aftermath of crisis (Oxford oral history series) (pp. 17-32). (New York: Oxford University Press.)

S. Leydesdorff (2014). Levensverhalen vast gelegd door een historicus. In R.A. Jongedijk (Ed.), Levensverhalen en psychotrauma: narratieve exposure therapie in theorie en praktijk (Arq-boekenreeks) (pp. 77-91). Amsterdam: Boom

2013

S. Leydesdorff (2013). Oral history, trauma and September 11, comparative oral history. In P. Pierre (Ed.), September 11th-12th: the individual and the State faced with terrorism (pp. 141-159). Paris: Hermann

S. Leydesdorff (2013). The State within the State: An artisan Remembers his Identity in Mauthausen. In R. Fritz, G. Botz & e.a. (Eds.), Mauthausen, Uberleben und Erinneren. Wien: Böhlau

2013

Leydesdorff, S., ‘Why Compensation is a mixed Blessing’, in: H.G. vander Wilt, J. Vervliet, G.K. Sluiter, J.M. Houwink ten Cate (eds.), The Genocide Convention: the legacy of 60 years. (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff), pp. 105-114

Leydesdorff, S. (2013). Oral history, trauma and September 11, comparative oral history. In P. Pierre (Ed.), September 11th-12th: the individual and the State faced with terrorism (Paris: Hermann) 141-159

2012

S. Leydesdorff The State within the State: An artisan Remembers his Identity in Mauthausen’. In R. Fritz, G. Botz & e.a. (Eds.), Mauthausen, Uberleben und Erinneren (. Wien: Böhlau.), 2012

S. Leydesdorff ‘Oral history, trauma and September 11, comparative oral history’. In P. Pierre (Ed.), September 11th-12th: the individual and the State faced with terrorism (Paris: Hermann), 2013, 141-159

S. Leydesdorff , ‘Why compensation is a mixed blessing’. In H.G. van der Wilt, J. Vervliet, G.K. Sluiter & J.T.M. Houwink ten Cate (Eds.), The Genocide Convention: the legacy of 60 years (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff) 2012, pp. 105-114

2011

Leydesdorff, S., ‘The State within the State: an Artisan Remembers his Identity in Mauthausen’, in: R. Fritz, G. Botz, A. Prenninger, M. Djenaga (eds.) Mauthausen Ueberleven und Erinneren, vo. 3 (accepted)

S. Leydesdorff, ‘23 Years later, A New Interview, a New Perspective’, in: H. Berger, M. Djenaga, R. Fritz, A. Prenninger (eds.), Politische Gewalt und Machtsausübung im 20. Jahrhundert Zeitgeschichte, Zeitgeschehen und Kontroversen, Festschrift für Gerhard Botz, Böhlau: Wien, pp. 489-500

2010

Leydesdorff, S., ‘How shall we Remember Srebrenica? Will the Language of Law structure our Memory?’, in: Gutman, Y., Brown, A.D., Sodaro, A., Memory and the Future, Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society, (Palgraves Macmillan; London, New York; 2010), 121-141

Review: Laten we hun lied verder zingen: de heropbouw van de joodse gemeenschap in Antwerpen na de Tweede Wereldoorlog (1944-1960). Bijd. meded. Geschiedenis Med., 125/4

2009

Leydesdorff, S. (2009) ‘Zvanični javni jezik I ustišani glasovi žena iz Srebrenice’, in: Ljudska Prava, Časopis za sve Pravno-Političke Probleme, VII, 3-4, p. 109-115

Leydesdorff, S. ‘When Communities Fell Apart and Neighbors Became Enemies: Stories of Bewilderment in Srebrenica’, in: Adler, N, Leydesdorff, S. et al. (2009), Memories of Mass Repression, Narrating Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity, New Brunswick/London: Transaction Publishers. pp. 21-41

Adler, N., Leydesdorff, S. et al. ‘Introduction’, in: Adler, N, Leydesdorff, S. et al. (2009), Memories of Mass Repression, Narrating Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity, New Brunswick/London: Transaction Publishers, pp. IX-XXI

Leydesdorff, S. (2009) ‘Die Traumata von Srebrenica. Von Ringen űberlebender Frauen um Erinnerung und Zukunft’, in: Botz, G., Karner, S. et al. Krieg Erinnerung Geschichtswisenschaft, Wien/Kőln/ Weimar: Bőhlau, pp. 351-375

Leydesdorff, S. (2009) Ima li u nadoknadi jos nesto osim bagoslova. Pregled casopis za dustvena pitanja, 2009(1), 275-282

2008

Leydesdorff, S. Zvanični javni jezik I ustišani glasovi žena iz Srebrenice. In: Ljudska Prava, Časopis za sve Pravno-Političke Probleme, VII, 3-4, pp. 109-115

Leydesdorff, S. Memory and the History of Genocide: Stories of the Women of Srebrenica. In: Studies on the audio-visual testimony of Victims of the Nazi crimes and genocides, 14, p. 75-87

2007

Leydesdorff, S. ‘Oral Histories and their Challenge to Collective Memory: The Case of Srebrenica’, Bios, Jrg.20, pp.113-120 (Sonderheft, February 2007)

Leydesdorff, S. ‘Stories from No Land: The Women of Srebrenica Speak Out, Human Rights Review vol. 8, issue 3, pp 187-198

2006

Leydesdorff, S. ‘The Strength to Survive: an Anthroplogy of Survival’, Studies on the audio-visual testimony of the Nazi crimes and genocides, Brussels, nr.12, June 2006, pp. 77-85

Leydesdorff, S., Tonkin, E. ‘The Volatility of the Oral: Aldine Transaction Introduction of J. Vansina, Oral Tradition, A Study in Historical Methodology, New Brunswick/London: Aldine Transaction, 2006, pp. XI-XVII

Leydesdorff, S. ‘Gesproken en geschreven levensverhalen: Op zoek naar een “antroplogie van overleven via oral history’”, in: E, Bohlmeijer, L. Mies, G. Westerhof (red.), De betekenis van Levensverhalen. Theoretische beschouwingen en toepassingen in onderzoek en praktijk, Houten: Bohn, Stafleu, van Loghem, 2007, pp. 173-183

Leydesdorff, S. ‘El Estado dentro del Estado, Un rtesano recuerda su identidad en Mauthausen’, in: V. Caranavole, F. Lorzenz, R. Pittaluga (red.), Historia Memoria y Fuentes Oral, Buenos Aires: Memoria Abierta, 2006, pp. 111-129

2005

Leydesdorff, S. (2005) ‘Gender and Memory Ten Years On’, in: S. Leydesdorff, L. Passerini, P. Thompson, Gender and Memory, New Brunswick, London: Transaction Publishers, p. VII- XVIII, (introduction state of the art of reprint) C

Leydesdorff, S., Passerini, L., Thompson, P. (1996, reprint 2005) ‘Íntroduction’, in: Gender and Memory, New Brunswick, London: Transaction Publishers, pp.1-17. C

Crownshaw, R., Leydesdorff, S. (2005) ‘On Silence and Revision: The Language and Words of the Victims’, In: L. Passerini (ed.), Memory and Totalitarianism, New Brunswick, London: Transaction Publishers, p. VII-XIX (introduction state of the art of reprint) C

Leydesdorff, S. (1992, reprint 2005), ‘A Shattered Silence: The Life Stories of Survivors of the Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam’, in: L. Passerini (ed.) Memory and Totalitarianism, New Brunswick, London, pp. 145-165. C

Ingrao, C., Gavrilovic, D. (ea. Incl. S. Leydesdorff) (2005), ‘The Safe Areas’, in: The Scholars Initiative: Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies 2001-2005, The Scholars Initiative, Purdue online publication www.sla.purdue.edu/si H

Leydesdorff, S. (2005) ‘Oral history, onverwachte verhalen’, in: Geron, tijdschrift voor Ouder worden en maatschappij, VII, 4, pp. 26-18. A07

2004

‘State within the State: an artisan remembers his identity in Mauthausen’, in: Studies on the audio-visual testimony of victims of the Nazi crimes and genocides, X, pp. 103-117

With Chamberlain, M., Introduction to Transnational families: memories and narratives, Global networks: a journal of transnational affairs, IV, 3, pp. 227-243

2002

‘The Veil of History: The Integration of Jews reconsidered’, in: J. Israel, R. Salverda (eds.), Dutch Jewry: Its History and Secular Culture, Brill: Leiden/Boston/Köln, 2002, pp. 225-239

2001

‘New Knowledge about Muslim-women, narratives of women in six countries’, in: Proceedings of EADI-workshop Gender and Globalisation, Enschede 2001

Report on the narratives of Women in Six Muslim Countries for the Ministry of Development

2000

‘Desafios do transculturalismo’, in M. de Moraes Ferreira, et al. (ed), História Oral, desafios o século XXI, Fundaçâo Getulio Vargas: Rio de Janeiro 2000, pp.73-85

‘When the Water comes, Memories of survival after the 1953 Flood’, in: S. Hussey, P. Thompson, The roots of Environmental Consciousness, Popular Tradition and Personal Experience, Routledge: London/New York 2000, pp.76-91 (reprint 2004)

‘Quand les eaux montent: souvenirs de survie apres les inondations de 1953’, in: R. Favier, A-M. Granet-Abisset, Histoire et Mémoire des Risques Naturels, Maison des sciences de l’Homme-Alpes: Grenoble 2000, pp.177-191

1999

‘Gender and the Categories of Experienced History’, in: Gender and History, Special Issue: Retrospect and Prospect (ed. L. Davidoff, K. McClelland, E. Varikas, vol. 11, nr.3, Nov. 1999, pp. 597-613. (Blackwell, Oxford/Boston)

With K. Lacey Rogers and G. Dawson, Trauma and Life Stories, International Perspectives, Routledge: London/New York, pp.254

S. Leydesdorff, et al., ‘Trauma and life Stories’, in K. Lacey Rogers, S. Leydesdorff, G. Dawson, Trauma and Life Stories, London, New York, pp.1-27

‘The Story of Maurits’, in: Words and Silences, bulletin of the International Oral History Association, vol. II, nr. I, Aug. 1999, pp. 21-23 (Sussex)

‘Woord vooraf’, in: Ochenebbisj, Verhalen en geintjes over het Amsterdamse Ghetto 1870-1925, Amsterdam: Lubberhuizen, pp.7-19

‘Gender and the Politics of Office Work’, in: The Low Countries, Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands, Brugge: Ons Erfdeel, pp. 291-293

1998

The Jewish worker in the Diaspora, Comparative study and textbook edited by Nancy Green. California University Press, pp. 256 (my participation is spread through the book)

‘Genres of Migration’, in: M. Chamberlain, Caribbean Migration, Globalised identities, London, New York, pp. 81-95

‘Aletta Jacobs, juive et féministe’, in: Septemprion, 8

1997

‘Etre féministe dans un pays au-dessus de tout soupcon’, in: L. Kandel (ed.), Feminismes et Nazisme, Paris 1997, pp. 192-204

‘The Memoirs of Aletta Jacobs, A modest testimony’, in: The Low Countries, arts and society in Flanders and the Netherlands, Rekkem 1997, pp. 296-299

‘Voorwoord’ bij Benoîte Groult, Op de bres voor vrouwen, schrijvers politici en filosofen over de rechten van de vrouw, Amsterdam 1997, pp. 9-19

1996

Leydesdorff, S., Passerini, L., Thompson, P. (red), ‘Introduction on Gender and Memory’, in: Gender and Memory, International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, vol. IV, pp.1-20

‘Interviewing Antillean women, communication with many layers’, in: Proceedings of the IX international oral history conference, Göteborg, pp. 23-30

1995

‘Identiteit, een vraagstuk voor de wetenschap en voor de politiek’, in: Commenius, nr.3., pp. 266- 275

‘Femmes immigrées aux Pays-Bas’, in: M.C. Hoock-Demarle (ed.), Femmes, Nations, Europe, Paris 1995, pp. 286-292

In dit jaar International yearbook of Oral history and Life Stories, vol. III, Migration and Identity

1994

‘La Memoria Collectiva Y El Papel de los Relatos que las Madras quentan as sus Higlas’, in: Arenal, Rivista de Istoria de las Mujeres, vol. 1, pp. 31-48

Review artikel over vrouwengeschiedenis in: Gender and History, vol. 6, nr.2, pp. 308-311

‘Feminisms and Nazisms: A Colloquium in Honour of Rita Thalman’, in: The European Journal of Women's Studies, pp.115-116

1993

‘The Mythology of Solidarity, as shown in the Memory of the February Strike of 1941’, in: J. Michman (ed.), Dutch Jewish History, vol. III, pp. 353-369

‘Helden en Slachtoffers, een marginale mythe’, in: Etnofoor, vol.VI, nr.1., pp. 95-113

1992

‘Wij en de geschiedenis’, in: L. Noordegraaf (red.), Ideeën en ideologieën, Studies over economische en sociale geschiedschrijving in Nederland 1894-1991, Amsterdam 1991, pp. 528-539

‘A Shattered Silence: The Life Stories of Survivors of the Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam’, in: International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, vol.1, Oxford 1992, pp.145-165

1991

‘Different from those across the Water: Interviews on the Construction of Collective Identity in Working-class Neighbourhoods in the North of Amsterdam’, in: Ronald L. Grele, ed., International Annual of Oral History: Subjectivity and Multiculturalism in Oral History (New York & London, 1991), pp. 43-55

Bespreking van J. Withuis 'Opoffering en Heroiek. De mentale wereld van een communistische vrouwenorganisatie in naoorlogs Nederland, 1946-’76, in: Sociologische Gids 38 (1991), pp. 289-290

Bespreking van G. v.d. Berghe, ‘Met de Dood Voor Ogen’, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis XVII (1991), pp. 242-244

‘Oral History in the Netherlands’, Bios: Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung und Oral History, Special Issue 1990, pp. 65-75 (met J. Talsma)

‘Nederlands Feminisme, een speurtocht naar verklaringen’, in: H. J. Bootsma & I. v.d. Pluym-van Eijkeren (red.), Vrouwengeschiedenis: 8 Essays (Tilburg, 1990), pp. 11-21

‘Oral History and Perestroika’, History Workshop, A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Historians, 29 (Spring, 1990), pp. 205-208

‘Internationale Memorialkonferenz in Moskou’, Bios, Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung und Oral History (1990, 1), pp. 131-135

1989

‘The Policy of the Amsterdam Municipality towards the Jewish Proletariat in the 1930s’, in: Dutch Jewish History 2 (Jerusalem, 1989), pp. 235-246

‘Hidden Work: Outwork in Dutch Industrialization’, in: J. Kleinberg (ed.), Retrieving Women’s History (Oxford & New York, 1989), pp. 166-189

‘Das gebrochene Schweigen: Lebensgeschichten von Überlebenden des Jüdischen Proletariats in Amsterdam’, Bios: Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung und Oral History 2 (1989), pp. 17-27

‘Auf der Suche nach Worten für das Unsagbare und Bildern für das Unsichtbare’, Journal Geschichte (Weinheim, 1989), pp. 30-34

‘Politics, Identification and the Writing of Women’s History’, in: A. Angerman et. al., Current Issues in Women’s History (London & New York, 1989), pp. 9-21

1988

‘The Creation of the modern Jewish working-class Family in the Thirties and the Changes in their Lives’, in: L. Heerma van Voss en F. van Holthoon (red.), Working Class History and Popular Culture (Amsterdam, 1988), pp. 59-71

1986

‘The Screen of Nostalgia: oral History and the Ordeal of Working Class Jews in Amsterdam’, International Journal of Oral History 7, 2 (1986), pp. 109-116

‘Wij en de Geschiedenis’, Te Elfder Ure 39 (1986), pp. 135-150

1985

‘Identification and Power in the Formation of the Romantic Memory’, in: Ve Colloqui Internacional d’Historia Oral (Barcelona, 1985), pp. 309-317

1984

‘Spinnewebben en Spinrag’, Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies 5, 3 (1984), pp. 372-385

‘Lob der Vernunft’, Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis für Frauen 7, 11 (1984), pp. 26-35

‘In Search of the Picture: Jewish Proletarians in Amsterdam between the two World Wars’, in: Dutch Jewish History (Jerusalem, 1984), pp. 315-335

‘Maakten zij de Wereld Leefbaar? Korte Geschiedenis van de SDAP in het Joodse Bolwerk Amsterdam-Oost in de Jaren voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog’, in: M. van Amerongen en L. Brug (red.), Voor Buurt en Beweging: Negentig Jaar Sociaal-Demokratie tussen IJ en Amstel (Amsterdam, 1984), pp. 160-198

1983

‘Geschiedenis met en zonder Beweging’, in: Geschiedenis en Bevrijding II (Groningen, 1983), pp. 17-33

‘Geheugen, Getuigen en Herinneren: voorbeelden uit een Onderzoek naar het Amsterdamse Joodse Proletariaat’, in: M. du Bois-Reymond en T. Wagemakers (red.), Mondelinge Geschiedenis (Amsterdam, 1983), pp. 80-101

‘History Workshop: 1966-1982’, Te Elfder Ure 27, 2 (1983), pp. 476-504

‘Socialisatie en Oral History’, Cahiers voor de Politieke en Sociale Wetenschappen 5, 4 (1983), pp. 33-50 (i.s.m. M. du Bois-Reymond)

1982

‘Patterns of Cultural Change: the Jewish Proletariat in Amsterdam, 1918-1940’, in: IVième Colloque Internationale d'Histoire Orale (Aix en Provence, 1982), pp. 580-590

‘Vrouwenarbeid in de Industrie’, in: R. Vreeman (red.), De Kwaliteit van de Arbeid in de Nederlandse Industrie: Vakbondsactie en Overheidsbeleid (Nijmegen, 1982), pp. 190-212

1981

‘Het Proletariaat rond 1900 in Amsterdam’, History Special, nr. 2, pp. 18-24

1980

‘Geschiedenis van de Vrouwenbeweging’, in: Vrouw – Gezin – Arbeid, deel II (Tilburg, 1980), pp. 60-74

‘Hoe Weet ik nu of ik Links Ben?’, in: L. Brug e.a. (red.), Geschiedenis en Bevrijding: de Bestudering van hetVerleden in de Emancipatiestrijd van Nu (Odijk, 1980), pp. 161-170

‘Lof der Rede’, Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies I, 2 (1980), pp. 209-223 (i.s.m. A. Bleich en U. Jansz)

1978

‘Vrouwen dragen geen Witte Boorden maar Schone Jurken’, Socialistisch-Feministische Teksten 1, (Amsterdam, 1978)

1977

‘Vrouwengeschiedenis’, Wetenschap en Samenleving (1977), nr. 4

1975

‘Huis uit, Huis in: een Schets van de Positie van Vrouwen sedert het Begin van de Moderne Tijd’, Jeugd en Samenleving, maart/april 1975 (with J. Outshoorn en F. Wieringa; reprint: Ambo, 1977)

‘De Houding tegenover Vrouwenarbeid in de Fabrieken aan het Eind van de Negentiende Eeuw’, Te Elfder Ure nr. 20 (1975), pp. 746-764

‘Van Dames- en Vrouwenfatsoen’, ‘Kanttekeningen bij de Geschiedenis van de Huisvrouw’, ‘Feminisme in Nederland’, in: Te Elfder Ure nr. 20 (1975), pp. 848-867, pp. 705-722, pp. 603-623