Thanks to Rosa Manus’s extraordinary organizational talents and energy, more than 9 million signatures from 59 countries were collected on the petition articulating ‘women’s desire for peace’.

Lizzy van Dorp (1872-1945) received this particular notebook for her 72nd birthday in 1944. It served as a gift from other women in camp Tjihapit II in Bandoeng on West-Java. It is a collection of recipes from the Indonesian kitchen to which they added their own recipes. Lizzy van Dorp meticulously made diary notes of her last period in […]

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 […]

On the 18th of May 1934, women demonstrated by a silent march through The Hague. It was the day of the League of Nations and since then, every year on that specific date, a so-called Women’s Peace Walk was held. The planned demonstration of May 18th 1940 was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Second World War. The […]

The idea of ​​the Dutch liberation skirt came from feminist and resistance fighter Mies Boissevain-van Lennep.

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.

The Dutch Communist Party (Communistische Partij Nederland or CPN) had been a small party before WWII. After the German invasion and the capitulation in May 1940, the party was banned by the occupying forces. However, the CPN was expecting this to happen and had prepared accordingly. The CPN was able to continue her activities in the resistance […]