International Institute of Social History

The International Institute of Social History, or Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, sits on Cruquiusweg and is one of the world’s largest archives dedicated to labor and social history. Founded in 1935 by Nicolaas Posthumus, it began as a focused repository for papers from radical movements and international labor organizations, and today it holds about one million volumes and 5,445 archival collections. Its holdings span major figures and groups—from Emma Goldman and Sylvia Pankhurst to the European Trade Union Confederation and Amnesty International—making it the foremost repository of anarchist and labor documents worldwide. During World War II, the institute faced grave disruption, with looting in 1940 and subsequent restitution efforts beginning in 1946 and again in 1991, as part of its long arc of recovery and consolidation. …

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