Rosa de Jong

Rosa de Jong is a PhD Candidate at the Department of History at the University of Amsterdam, and a Guest Researcher at the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) and at NIOD (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies). In 2022 she was awarded the Alexander Grass Memorial Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for her research project, “From European Ports to Caribbean Homes: Second World War Refugees in Global Transit.” This project, which has also been funded through The Dutch Research Council (NWO), investigates the refugees who fled during the Second World War from the Dutch Low Countries via different European ports to the Caribbean, ending up mainly in Jamaica, Suriname, Curaçao, and Cuba.