Description of the attraction
The Second World War did not pass by the Netherlands, making its own adjustments to the measured rhythm of Dutch life. The war came to the Netherlands along with the occupation, which actually began on May 10, 1940, when German troops invaded the territory of the state that had declared neutrality without declaring war, and lasted for five long years. The war brought a lot of grief, grinding the fate of families in its millstones, but still could not completely break the will of the people for a free and peaceful life. And, like in many countries, during the German occupation in the Netherlands there was a Resistance movement, whose members, with the active support of Great Britain and the United States, made a tangible contribution to the fight against the occupiers.
To get acquainted with the history of the Resistance movement and, in general, with this period in the history of the Netherlands, you can visit the Museum of the Resistance Movement in Amsterdam, which is located in the Plantage district. The museum exposition with the help of old photographs, posters, newspapers, letters and diaries, video and audio files, personal belongings, various household items and interiors perfectly illustrates the atmosphere of wartime and tells in detail about the people who lived in that era and their fates, about the fight against the Nazis, about one of the saddest pages of that time - the Holocaust in the Netherlands.
The museum first opened its doors to visitors in 1984 in the building of the synagogue on Lekstraat, and in 1999 it moved to the "Plancius House", where, in fact, it is located today. This house is an important historical and architectural monument and was built in 1876 by the Jewish singing society "Oefening Baart Kunst" on the site of the old house of the clergyman and geographer Peter Planzius (1550-1622), which is why it got its name.
