Visit Amsterdam's WWII Resistance Museum and learn about one of the darkest periods in Dutch history. The exhibition covers all forms of resistance: strikes, forging of documents, helping people to go into hiding, underground newspapers, escape routes, armed resistance, espionage.
Get transported back to the forties, the period of the German occupation during World War II. Wander the streets among walls full of photos, which help evoke the climate of the war years.
Learn about the former colonies in the Dutch East Indies in a dedicated section of the museum. Find out about these people's harrowing experiences under the Japanese regime of terror.

See, hear, and read fascinating stories about the exceptional as well as the everyday in a time of military occupation. Get insights into people's day-to-day worries, resistance groups, and collaborators.

Moving personal documents tell the storey of people who were confronted with dilemmas by the German occupation, and were forced to make choices.