Tag: Dutch History

  • Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City

    Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City

    By Sietske van der Veen ( Twitter/X: @SBvanderVeen; Bluesky: @sbvanderveen.bsky.social) The documentary Occupied City (De bezette stad,2023) contrasts everyday life in Amsterdam’s cityscape today, visualised in the moving images, with the horrors of World War II, described by the voice-over. Through this layering in sound and vision, the 4.5-hour film made by Steve McQueen and…