Material available on conscientious objectors for further research, with special reference to:

- Pre (Second World) war experiences and war experiences of Dutch conscientious objectors
- Deportation of Dutch conscientious objectors to a prison camp (Fort Zeelandia) in Suriname on the orders of the Free Dutch Government in London.

Other topics of possible interest:
- The legal status of imprisoned Dutch conscientious objectors in May 1945 (in May 1945, during the invasion of the German occupying forces, unrecognized and ‘absolute’ objectors being held in prison were not released but handed over to the German authorities. What was the legal justification for this course of events?).
- Dutch conscientious objectors and (nonviolent) resistance during the Second World War (anecdotal material from interviews suggests that many conscientious objectors were involved in resistance activities. Did they make a conscious choice for nonviolent resistance? 

Archival material relating to these topics:
- WRI Archive (https://search.socialhistory.org/Record/ARCH01537/Description / available at IISG)
In particular boxes 344-354, which provide information on the deportation of Dutch conscientious objectors in South Africa to Suriname, the legal battle between WRI and the Free Dutch Government over the internment of conscientious objectors and numerous individual court cases.

- Archief Hein van Wijk (https://search.socialhistory.org/Record/ARCH01644 / available at IISG) 
In particular box 159, which contains information on Dutch conscientious objectors being held in England on the orders of the Free Dutch Government. Other boxes of interest: 8, 14, 40, 45, 78-96 and114-116.

- Archief Project Vooroorlogse Dienstweigeraars (https://search.socialhistory.org/Record/ARCH01083 / available at IISG)
Recordings and transcriptions of interviews with 26 Dutch pre-war conscientious objectors. The recordings were made between 1991-1993. 

- Harold F. Bing Papers (https://search.socialhistory.org/Record/ARCH00057 / available at IISG).
In particular Box 10, which contains a transcript of a sound recording made by the Imperial War Museum for their Oral History Program featuring Harold Bing’s experiences as a conscientious objector during the First World War: “Experiences of a Conscientious Objector”. 
The abominable treatment of conscientious objectors in Britain during World War I was one of the main reasons why WRI focused so heavily on the rights Conscientious objectors.  

- Geheim Archief Gouverneur Suriname (www.gahetna.nl/collectie/archief/ead/index/eadid/2.10.18/node/c01%3A1.c02%3A1.c03%3A4.c04%3A0.c05%3A1.c06%3A2.c07%3A12. / Available at the State Archive, The Hague. Currently not available due to digitization) and the: 
- Archief van het Gezantschap, later ambassade Zuid-Afrika (Pretoria), (1910) 1930-1954 (1955) en Consulaat in Pretoria (Zuid-Afrika), 1941-1946 (http://www.gahetna.nl/collectie/archief/pdf/NL-HaNA_2.05.122.ead.pdf / available at the State Archive, The Hague – most of the items of interest are under restriction until 2030).
Both archives shed more light on the arrest of roughly 70 Dutch conscientious objectors in South Africa on orders of the Dutch Embassy in Pretoria (after the approval of the South African government), their deportation to Suriname and their treatment in a Suriname prison camp.