Drs. René Pottkamp
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Biography
René Pottkamp studied History at the Free University in Amsterdam and Archivistics at the University of Amsterdam. His thesis 'Ruil en roof, Duitse claims op Nederlandse archieven tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog' ('Exchange and Robbery, German Claims to Dutch Archives during the Second World War') was nominated for the 2006 F.J. Duparc prize. As chief editor of the 'Adopt a Diary' project, he is responsible for contacting volunteer transcribers and checking their transcriptions. He also leads various digitisation projects, including the archives 251a LOLKP, 214 Personalakten, 197a Verervingskartotheek and 103 Berichtendienst Nederlandsche Omroep.
He has been working at NIOD since 2000. Within the Erfgoed van de Oorlog project he developed the websites sobiborinterviews.nl and indischekamparchieven.nl as coordinator. In 2015, together with archive consultant P. Horsman, he gave a course on management and digitisation to employees of the Gacaca archive in the Rwandan capital Kigali. Tens of thousands of case files are kept in this archive on suspects of (war) crimes.
Over the years he has been project leader for the digitisation of several NIOD archives, including archive 250g Camp Vught; collection 244 diaries & memoirs; collection 400 Indische Collectie; and archive 077 Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer.