Occupation in Amsterdam
In the museum's auditorium you can watch the entire 34 hour film, which travels to over 2000 addresses across the city to uncover what took place behind each facade in the years of the Nazi occupation. The work is based on Atlas of an Occupied City. Amsterdam 1940-1945, by the historian and filmmaker Bianca Stigter. As the stories accumulate over the course of the film, what emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on time and memory.
The presentation of the full length 34 hour film at the Rijksmuseum coincides with Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary and the commemoration of 80 years of liberation.