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- In 1940s Amsterdam, Jewish Council co-chairman David Cohen and his daughter Virrie have their bond tested as they pursue increasingly opposing ways of safeguarding their community under Nazi rule.
- It tells the unknown story of the Amsterdam city tram that collaborated with the Nazis and deported tens of thousands of Jews to the train stations on their way to the death camps. We experience their last tram ride.
- What did the women and children experience in the Japanese internment camps in the Dutch East Indies? What wounds and traumas remained, and how did they cope with them throughout their lives?
- Classical studies professor David Cohen accepts when his tycoon friend asks him to co-chair the 'Jewish Council' installed by the Beaufträgter (Nazi commissioner) for Amsterdam to represent the Hebrew community, hoping to smooth things and prevent incidents, for starters handing in all arms. However hard-handed raids continue, sending 400 arbitrary young Jews to Mauthausen -the meaning on concentration camp dawns slowly- as they get blamed for any unrest in the city. The community gets divided whether to cooperate to avoid worse, or attempt futile resistance, like the communist-inspired general strike. The SS Hauptsturmbannführer hold stem responsible, while dropping some gentleman attitude. Cohen's nurse daughter Virrie's close friend Emil Wertheim was arrested by NSB (Dutch armed collaborator militia) without pretext and died in the Austrian camp, convincing her mother Cornelia and fiancee, law student Piet Meerburg, to join the resistance.
- An inspection by SS superior Klaus Barbie forces the Amsterdam CO to act even tougher, humiliating Cohen and Asher, deciding the latter to resign from the council, which decides against disbanding, still hoping to prevent worse. The are ordered to publish a journal with all Nazi instructions, hoping to maintain order. The youth camp is formally transferred as a a transit camp for people to be deported, all Jews must buy and wear yellow David star insignia, distributed by the council, which enjoys immunity for its members and their families when ordered to compile full lists of people selected for deportation to Poland, allowed to choose a small number of 'indispensable' person allowed to remain in Amsterdam. Student Piet Meerburg leads a hideout ring and recruits Cohen's daughter Virrie to steal medication for their charges. Cogen's wife provocatively braves the ever more restrictive rules by buying and serving fish on Sabbath, causing a row, when Virrie learns of her aunt's adulterous relation with the professor.