On Wednesday December 14 Professor Francisca de Haan gave the first Rosa Manus lecture called Rosa Manus: Restoring to History a “Dutch Woman Leader” who Fell Victim to the Nazi’s. There was also a comment by Professor Mineke Bosch. Text of the lecture (pdf) Francisca de Haan is Professor of Gender Studies and History at […]

Rosa Manus (1881-1942) was an internationally oriented feminist and activist. In 1935, she co-founded the International Archives for the Women’s Movement.

Rosa Manus (1881-1942) was one of the founders of the International Archives for the Women’s Movement (IAV) in 1935. However, since 1994 it has become evident that Manus had already been busy with setting up such an archive from as early as 1930. In 1994, the IAV received microfilms from Moscow. These microfilms appeared to be part […]

Among the thousands of items that were retrieved from Moscow in 2003, was this extraordinarily watercolour of Rosa Manus (1881-1942). Rosa Manus, ‘a modern woman of stature’, was one of the founders and the first president of the International Archives for the Women’s movement in 1935. At the bottom right ‘J.H. Sp. 27’. These intitials […]