Omgang met de eigentijdse geschiedenis is ondenkbaar zonder verhalen over het verleden. Selma Leydesdorff heeft jarenlang nationaal en internationaal een centrale rol gespeeld in de ontwikkeling van oral history, een vakgebied dat in de wetenschappelijke praktijk van het historisch onderzoek in de afgelopen decennia is uitgegroeid tot een internationaal erkende vorm van geschiedschrijving.  Meer

Gender and Memory is the fourth volume of the International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories. Once again, its theme is a fundamental issue, the shaping of memory by gender.  Meer

In recent years memory has attracted increasing attention. From analyses of electronic communication and the Internet to discussions of heritage culture, to debates about victimhood and sexual abuse, memory is currently generating much cultural interest.  Meer

On October 14, 1943, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia.  Meer

In recent years memory has attracted increasing attention. From analyses of electronic communication and the Internet to discussions of heritage culture, to debates about victimhood and sexual abuse, memory is currently generating much cultural interest.  Meer

On October 14, 1943, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia.  Meer