Documentary - 2023

(50m - Dutch)

Produced by Merlijn Janssen Steenberg @ Magic Lantern

Fewer than ninety of the more than 500 Nijmegen Jews survived the Second World War. In the documentary Razzia ’42, three characters from Nijmegen talk about the persecution and the terrible events that occurred in the winter of 1942.

Liam van Rosmalen tells about his great-grandfather, Israel Cohen, the first Jew to be arrested in Nijmegen, deported to Auschwitz on 16 July 1942 and murdered.

Theater actor and director, Godfried Beumers talks about his play “Razzia” and his character Fritz Tauber, revealing unimaginably heartbreaking details about his return from camp Westerbork.

Desirée the Wijze shares the story of her father, Louis de Wijze, one of the few survivors to return from the horrors of Auschwitz…