Dutch Resistance Museum

The focus of Verzetsmusuem is about the German Occupation as well as Nazi rule in Holland during the second world war between 1940 and 1945. The museum aptly show the persecution of Jews by the Nazis and world war two in general. The permanent exhibition covers all forms of resistance: strikes, forging of documents, helping people to go into hiding, underground newspapers, escape routes, armed resistance, espionage. You’ll see, hear en read fascinating stories about the exceptional as well as the everyday in a time of occupation in which most people were far too embroiled in day-to-day worries to even think about daring to involve themselves in any kind of resistance, and in which still others opted for collaboration.

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Year

1999

Address

Amsterdam
Netherlands

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