On November 6, 1947, Abraham Asscher and David Cohen were arrested for collaboration with the German occupier. As the two chairmen of the Jewish Council for Amsterdam, Cohen and Asscher had, among other things, helped to distribute the Star of David, had the Jewish community disarmed and The Jewish Weekly communicated the orders of the Nazis. Asscher died before a trial could take place, Cohen was released from prosecution in 1951. Theater makers and actors Margo Verhoeven and Jurriaan van Seters adjust The Jewish Council the question: how can Cohen’s choices be explained? Directed by Lineke Rijxman, they try to...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
