This intimate portrait of Gonnie Scholten was drawn by the artist Rie Knipscheer in 1986. Gonnie Scholten was born on April 29th 1906 in Spankeren aan de IJssel and died on February 22nd 2005 in Doorn. In the 1920s, she studied theology in Leiden. In 1931, she married Willem Scholten and had six children. She worked as an assistant […]

The famous painter Isaac Israels painted Aletta Jacobs at least three times. This portrait was painted in 1919. His sister, Mathilde Cohen Tervaert-Israels (1864-1945), gave it to the International Archives for the Women’s Movement (IAV) in 1936 on the occasion of its opening on December 19. Mathilde Cohen Tervaert-Israels was, among other things, president of the Vereniging Onderlinge […]

On the 26th of August 1910, Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) made an appeal for an annual women’s day, with general women’s suffrage as the most important initial demand.

Atria has various beautiful banners carried by women during women’s suffrage demonstrations. This particular banner from the Alkmaar section is the largest in the collection. It was not self-evident that banners were carried. Large groups of women felt hesitant to speak in public or to take to the streets to propagandize the good cause, let alone […]