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The concealed rooms of wartime Amsterdam
During the German occupation, many families sought refuge behind false walls in Amsterdam canal houses. A study of civilian survival and the helpers who sustained it.
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During the German occupation, many families sought refuge behind false walls in Amsterdam canal houses. A study of civilian survival and the helpers who sustained it.
How the Dutch civilian resistance sustained those in hiding through forged documents, food networks, and an underground press.
Personal diaries kept under occupation reveal the texture of daily life that official records cannot capture.