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A documentary. This film tells the story of 700 Dutch Jews who, seemingly on a whim of fate, managed to escape deportation to concentration camps during World War II. While their friends and neighbors were dragged from their homes, these survivors found shelter at a chateau in Barneveld where they tried to preserve the life they had known.

Director : Paul Cohen, Oeke Hoogendijk

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 88

Language : Dutch, English

Here lived

A documentary. Stolpersteine is a project by Gunter Demnig for victims of Nazi persecution. At the present time, over 100,000 Stolpersteine have been placed in 30 countries across Europe. The Netherlands, second only to Poland in the percentage of Jews murdered during WW2, is where the demand for Stolpersteine is greater than anywhere else in the world. The film traces Stolpersteine have been placed in 30 countries across Europe. The film was screened at the Jewish cinema festival in Jerusalem 2024.

Director : Jane Wells

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 82

Language : English

עיר כבושה

A documentary. The past collides with the precarious present in Amsterdam. the film presents two portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts the city, and a journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed. The film is based on the book "Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945)" written by Bianca Stigter. The film was screened at the Jewish cinema week, Jerusalem, December 2023.

Director : Steve Mcqueen

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 262

Language : Dutch, English

Survival of a Spirit

סרט תיעודי משולב אנימציה.

Director : Patricia Bury Salier

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 51

Language : English

Ondergedoken - Diel 1 - de cocon

A documentary television series. The 1st episode. The story of the Resistance of Friesland that took care of hiding people ,especially Jews. This resistance was established by Piet Meerburg and together with his sister, Mia Coelingh, who had been the assistant referend of the community of Sneek, and several colleagues. Mong them : Reverend Willem Mesdag and the assistant priest Gerard Janssen. They organized a hideout for Jewish children, especially those smuggled from the Jewish children's daycare center in Amsterdam as known as "De Creche". The film focuses specifically on the personal story of Leah Trop,...

Director : Gerard Van Der Veer

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 30

Language : West Frisian

פרופ' דן מיכמן על תולדות משפחתו ועלייתו ארצה

סרט תדמית.

Director : Geert Van Kesteren

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 6

Language : Dutch, English

Holocaust: Finding My Family

A short documentary film. Holocaust survivor Steven Frank takes his teenage granddaughter Maggie on a journey to learn about his experiences during the Holocaust. First, they visit Amsterdam to learn about his happy family life there before the war, and what happened to Dutch Jews during Nazi occupation. Next, they travel to Terezin in the Czech Republic, where Steven was held, to learn about the horrors of life inside concentration camps. Finally, the pair travel to Auschwitz to learn about what happened to members of Steven's family who didn't survive the Holocaust.

Director : Nick Hall

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 30

Language : English

The Train Journey

A Documentary film by Willy Lindwer. The Train Journey tells the unusual and unbenounced story of five train journeys made by 89 Hungarian Jews and their Dutch families from occupied Holland to as yet unoccupied Budapest. After the Nazi invasion of Hungary in 1944, most of these Jews escaped deportation thanks in part to the courageous intervention by the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallendberg. The majority of the survivors returned safely to Holland after the war.

Director : Willy Lindwer

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 61

Language : Dutch, Hebrew

THE RECKONING

John Evans and Corey Niemchick's documentary Reckoning: Remember the Dutch Resistance chronicles the efforts made by the Dutch people to disrupt and end the Nazi occupation of their country. The filmmakers sit down with survivors from that time who share the stories of tragedy and triumph, while creating a harrowing portrait of this brutal moment in human history.

Director : John Evans, Corey Niemchick

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 96

Language : Dutch, English