Daan de Leeuw is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Art & Culture, History, and Antiquity at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with the project “The Holocaust in ‘the Provinces’: Local Dynamics in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands (1925-1950).” His primary research areas include the Holocaust, the Third Reich, Nazi concentration camps, and genocide.
De Leeuw received his PhD in history from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, Worcester, United States, for his dissertation “The Geography of Slave Labor: Dutch Jews and the Third Reich, 1942-1945.” In his thesis, he analyzes Jewish slave labor during the Holocaust, researching the victims’ experiences from a spatial perspective. De Leeuw holds a BA (cum laude) and MA (cum laude) in history from the University of Amsterdam. Prior to his doctoral studies, de Leeuw worked at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam as research assistant and as Project Manager of EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure).
De Leeuw has held fellowships at Yad Vashem, the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), EHRI, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. In addition, his research has been supported by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany which bestowed him a Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Dutch Cultuurfonds, and the American Academy for Jewish Research.
