Rosa de Jong is a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam, and a guest researcher at the KITLV and at NIOD (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies). 

Her NWO-funded research project ‘From European ports to Caribbean homes: Second World War refugees in global transit’ investigates the refugees who fled during the Second World War from the Low Countries via different European ports to the Caribbean, ending up mainly in Jamaica, Suriname and Curaçao. In 2022, she was awarded an eight-month-long Alexander Grass Memorial Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  

Rosa de Jong received her research master’s degree in history (2018) and bachelor’s degrees in history and philosophy (2016) from the University of Amsterdam. She previously worked at the KITLV as a junior researcher for a project on the colonial and enslavement past of the city of Rotterdam. Rosa de Jong was the final editor for Holland Historisch Tijdschrift and served on the humanities PhD council and the central PhD council at her university.  

Selected Publications

Jong, Rosa de, ‘Duitse en Oostenrijkse Joden als bevrijders bij de Slag om Arnhem’, WO2 Onderzoek Uitgelicht 2023.5, 2023.  

Jong, Rosa de & Sarah Casteel, ‘Surinaamse schilder Josef Nassy’s artistieke weergave van een nazikamp voor burgerkrijgsgevangenen’, Oorlogsbronnen, 2023.  

Jong, Rosa de, ‘Tiener op de vlucht, het verhaal van Truus Beffie’, Oorlogsbronnen, 2022.  

Jong, Rosa de, ‘Looking for agency in transnational refugee trajectories during the Second World War’, Itinerario Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions 45.1, 2021.  

Jong, Rosa de, ‘Joodse vluchtelingen vinden veiligheid in Suriname’, Oorlogsbronnen, 2021.   

Jong, Rosa de, ‘Dubbele straatnamen in de Amsterdamse Transvaalbuurt’, Holland Historisch Tijdschrift, 2020.