Making Choices: The Dutch Resistance During World War II | Full Movie | John Witte

and what I tell you now for years I didn't want to tell to nobody because I have nightmares now I can talk about that not every day in May of 1940 the Netherlands was one of only a few European countries the Germans had not yet conquered the Dutch held their breath as they watched their neighboring countries fall one after another into the hands of the Nazis Oh may I know that he had several people in our house and Hitler was going to give men of his famous speeches and he screamed you see the documented and we had a radio and I heard and all of us because we knew German Kurt and say I know that the dirt are afraid but they don't have to be because they are very unimportant I don't need that piece of land and on top they were neutral in the First World War I will respect their neutrality that for his own words but well he was saying that at 9 p.m. his troops were already marching to our borders on May 10 1940 the Nazis attacked the neutral country of the Netherlands that was the first time all my life that I have seen my father that he was this pale like this year before the meal and after the meal he had and a kind of a prayer but he made himself and it was always the same it was all of a sudden all of a sudden all those years a total different man that he brought the need of this moment for God's throne those are things you never forget and I remember on May 11 the second day into the war it was on a Sunday and our family went to church came home and we sat down for family dinner and all of a sudden the sirens began the piercing sound and I I just sat that frozen at the dinner table and my dad says well why don't we go in the hallway they say that's the safest place in the house so we all made for the hallway next to the staircase there my my dad offered in prayer and ask for God's protection and then he said we seek refuge in the shadow of your wings and those words hung over us like a shield and that's what I remember all the time you had little note in the paper but I've learned to read those little notes from death in that airbase lots of different several uniforms had disappeared and from this base and from that days and they actually soldiers told that they marched to our branches in our uniforms so our guys didn't even shift because it was such a chaos it was and this organization and this situation that you cannot describe everybody was yeah no hope no future no no see what I saw was horrible they were so powerful their big tanks their equipment and everything was perfect and here were the Dutch the Germans of course never declared war on any of these lowland countries used Marx in [Music] after five days of fighting the Dutch were forced to surrender [Music] Nazi troops marched in to occupy the melons on May 15 1940 beaver on the note that that tanks came in and they had that goose-stepping the helmets of my arrogance and they looked around and the Dutch people stood on the side and it tears were streaming down our chief and I made a vow while they were in my could be never nervous when word of German and I kept it and I think later and saved my life it was like watching a funeral the people just watched the troops coming as though they were watching a funeral and a German soldier wrote in front of that of those troops trying to create some enthusiasm and a part of the population but there was only one man who shouted out all the rest was yeah like watching a funeral the German Jews who had come to our country they had experienced the Tator they had come out of fear and there was not that place in whole Europe anymore that wasn't Nancy there was no North Sea or the other end and that night so many home but if not far over thousand committed suicide and you know when you get here to Sunday papers they're so thick then our papers were thick and I wish the night captain it was all obituaries and whole families all ages and they had all committed suicide it was terrible and that told us something how very scared those Jews were and how mean Hitler must be no little bit little this feeling of recessions became bigger and bigger the ministers in from the from the pulpit started to talk that we should resist we start sheltering Jew Jewish people because they were the transport they were transported off to Germany and Poland we sheltered three Jewish parties two women and a man the the Jewish women I don't remember too much of them because they pretty well kept to themselves upstairs in the room but the Jewish gentleman he mixed in with the family activities and health my mother in the kitchen and all that and he stayed with us for quite a while we were ready to go the church was in a Sunday morning and I said to Tina but is that noise outside all these speakers whatever they're Germans up to now in done in German they told all the Jews to report downstairs with 25 pounds of luggage service all and I said and all the non-jews cannot be on the street or get a chaton or shut I said Tina I have to for for history I have to call a look she said yeah history and you were dead and I'm a widow why do you do that I said well don't talk you know I haven't to see that and I did see it I was horrible I came out downstairs and right down below was a little shoemaker an old man with his wife and he was Jewish so he stood there with a little doggie that was their pet day I didn't have children and that was just like a little child and at that barking it at them and and the Germans walked around here with their guns and finding it can sycophants paying right in front of these people shot it right there I thought oh no and then they start pushing these people and with the the but but of their rifles in the trucks they got boring and normally would put in Oh was terrible they stood like this would move and then they moved him then the next one but I did know in the meantime the Germans were hollering house-to-house up and down three four stories up and down and at night okay I came back then and I walked along well close but better houses and they were too busy with the Jews and there came a German marching up the steps and he was dead tired he had done that the whole day up and down about that heavy gun and his neck in some other paraphernalia and he said down habits he'd you you'd do you have using house no nine okay so then he start knocking in in looking in closets and under the bed and every and finally plunked down a chair and then he said in German for fluted Creek Dam three damn war so I did say much I said why I want to get home I said where do you live Hamburg body went to go to Hamburg because I hate Hitler just like that he knew them and nobody else except my wife and I and then he had hurt you know that I was not too friendly with the Germans done he had a little courage I heard that before but not from Germans a Jewish friend of deed even named Herman approached her and her fiance Hine for help Herman had called me he said deed I want to see you has it come to our house the heck with Hitler he said I don't dare to he said then you can come to our house let's meet somewhere so on our banks we met and then he showed me a letter that his father had had and turned out all the Jewish people in sections got it in the Netherlands and it said you have to leave your house you may not take anything along except for each member in the family a little suitcase miss a change of clothing the fork and knife the spoon a cup and a blanket now I always when I think of that I still get mad because I think Herman's family had lived for maybe for hundreds of years in the Netherlands and all the other Jewish people and we didn't see them as Jewish people we saw them as fellow Dutch citizens and you just happen to have the Jewish religion they didn't even do anything on it don't you were Catholic or you were person but it didn't make any difference and all of us in those people have a right to be there I told by a power for has no right to be there leave everything behind that's a question you really thought this was so evil you had to do something you couldn't just sit by and then hang got a gate idea because he was the oldest of this large family and his father was principal of a little country school in a very Christian area naked and hence it I know all the farmers there for many many years and they're wonderful people and if I hope on the train and ask any of them if they will take Herman as long as the war lasts so Haines and next day I saw him and then I told him he said oh yes please he said but can you take my sister to Rosa and he said and I'm dating a Jewish girl and and she's an only child and her father was already caught and it hurt that he was killed so the mother is so scared and I said thought about your parents and they were very intellectual people and they they said no it's a dream evil Germany is a civilized country I mean might have to work hard for a while but then come back so they didn't want to go and so then Herman and his family and that in her family and it spread and this is I think a few weeks we had a list of over sixty people and hang up from the trade and ask the farmers and insurance you send them no problem no problem and so there was nothing heroic we said no it just wait till the war's over and then they can come back because he was trained as a mechanic the Nazis forced John Miller to repair propeller assemblies on German ships he and his fellow mechanics tried to befriend their Nazi supervisors we may believe that we loved them you know and you were only four civilians your honor soldiers so their guard went down that was their big mistake and it was our advantage so when we get parts new parts from Germany there were all but almost counted with the German looking over her shoulder but slowly on they were not counting him anymore and it'll walked away for coffee or whatever and that was the time for us to through have the parts in Inner Harbor disappeared bloop bloop gone they could figure out what happened they said it was him well the war was raging then and so they said it could easily miss miss miss shipped you know not to the right shipyard here so they were not suspicious but then slowly on they get the Gestapo in there they get really nasty and some of our mechanics they disappeared in the morning we didn't see him and we asked the German mechanics but happy with the service oh it's Y finished I don't know there was it I had sealed lips Italian in 1944 the Nazis were in desperate need of labor to keep their war factories running they began rounding up every man from 16 to 60 years old to take back to Germany as slaves we need not hesitate to call them to play many men went into hiding while others got false IDs from the resistance that indicated they were too old or young for deportation I used to dress up like a girl and white coat and kerchief lipstick and because boys my age were picked up I was 17 16 or 17 even though my ID card was changed by the underground to make me appear younger that didn't always work and I remember one time on the way back from my cousin I was dressed up like a girl and I was going home on the bike and he was an German soldier and the other side of the street and he must have been drunk I suppose and he was waving at me and whistling at me pretty soon he's gonna go come after me and so I told God that I was not prepared to deal with this but he didn't come after me fortunately the Nazis instituted a system of racing cards it made it impossible for people in hiding to buy food those who were now in hiding would not buy enough food to share so the situation was becoming desperate deeds group needed to find a way to get ration cards to feed the people they were hiding oh she's very pretty and the only thing don't tarnish was to think and to take it where were those relation cards in the offices that were governed by the German so that was really dangerous and on death was the death penalty and if you do a robbery you better have arms and the we had contact not argue but we had contact with other groups and they had contact with England secretin verse and they had dropped weapons in bacon things on our lakes in the underground hit empty did immediately for whatever spread around so we had to give offers and guns but on that was the death penalty too and if you do a robbery you better have some revolvers so this was very no it was getting dangerous life hung in the balance for those hiding Jews the Nazis declared that anyone found protecting a Jew would be treated as Jew which meant deportation to a concentration camp and most likely death one day I was playing the piano in the front room on the street side and noticed that a policeman was stopping in front of our house so I thought now this doesn't look very good so I went to the kitchen where mr. spoor was feeling potatoes as I don't know whether this has anything to do with you but there's a policeman at the door and I would get out of it if I were you so then he ran into the back yard and these were row houses with fences in between and he he was a short little guy five feet and he in no time at all he cleared a fence of six feet landed in the backyard of our neighbor lady whose birthday it was and who had invited other women to her birthday party five or six women and here all of a sudden here was this Jewish gentleman dropping right in the middle of them and proclaiming to the neighborhood that yes the timbers were hiding Jews so then the the underground came that that same evening and transported him to another hiding place he survived the war he survived and whether or not the two women did also I I don't know I don't think so one day each fiance Hein asked her to visit the apartment of a woman who was hiding Jews she belonged to a different division of the resistance and needed help when I came up there it was a very small apartment it was meant for one person and then I came she had 27 Jews in that tiny place it wasn't even a very well insulated building because I all of a sudden here through yeah next door in the next-door apartment I hear water go through pipes and somebody had flushed a toilet and they said to her do you hear that she said yes I said no when you lived here all the time alone I said how many times did you flush a day I said now you included your 28 people as if your next people next three people I'm Nazis that's a different way that something is going on me I said you have to take straight measures and she let them answer the phone and I said you have to answer the phone you live here as if you don't see the danger I said well all I can do for you is find more places and take a whole bunch away that you're left with to get the most three and then you have a chance but the way it's no I said you don't have a chance you will be arrested dete was able to hide many of the Jews staying in Mises apartment nice however continued to take more in as quickly as deed to take them away the apartment became more and more dangerous until one day when deed felt suspicious that something was wrong I phoned her an hour before lunchtime 11:00 or so and the men answers and because she was so yeah I would need to say disobedience to the rules but the general rules I said I thought goodness me here she lost them answer again so I hung up I didn't say a word so then after lunchtime I think I own two o'clock I call and got three water after three or four men and so the whole day I thought that is realistic so then I took one of my coupons because it was an apartment house in the street and of course was a food store small food store and I later I heard you know you knew how how does raids world and the drugs would pull up and soldiers were surround it with bayonets and all and I thought if that has happened there that food struggle the whole day be talking about it it's the big event so I went there to buy something I mean all arrested after mrs. apartment was raided the Gestapo began searching for dete and I'm they avoided arrests and went into hiding in April after being apart for many weeks Hein wrote her to say they should meet secretly at church the following Sunday it was beautiful spring day and all the forties were birding open with all the blossoms and I don't know how me I never wanted to know anything about the other people's work because I thought if I'm arrested then you start your torture did you tell and that's something he insisted on telling me everything and then he took the Bible out in the internet with me John 14 in my father's house are many mansions and then it was evening and I had to go back to the farm where I was going to sleep that night and we were on a lonely country halt it was to hold from Barneveld to naked and the blossoms in the distance and it was so strange I clearly heard a voice a Titan of my cook now in English you better have a good look at him and he was over six feet and I was small and I was sitting on my bank and I lived because I heard a fairly a voice and there was no body and then I heard it again and I thought this is K Z then I started looking at him and he says to me and he started laughing he said what are you staring at me and I did nothing of talents a week after Deaton Hine had seen each other deep got word from up a fellow resistance member that she was needed urgently it was her birthday on the way there I thought you know what I bet you it's my birthday the time this year and that they do this to get me there quick or so and I came in in absurd office and he said did something terrible heinous been arrested fearing arrest by the Gestapo for his involvement in sabotage at the shipyard John Miller fled to stay with family in northern Holland soon after arriving his brother-in-law came to see him he said I want to talk to you after a couple days and jaren talk to you alone so we're under another room I said Tina Kennedy ran a Jana Jana was Tina's just no no between you and me I want you recruit you in the underground here I said I used came now I'm thinking I I feel like I'm a free man I'm not free but now you well I will do it I'll do it but I have to do is it tonight you start already yeah we go you go into moods there isn't weapon drop and but I have to tell you a lot of things you cannot talk can you make a sound like a bird so he have a silly big guys sitting here and family I get it what he wanted he said no I want that that sound I said why he said that's the only signal we give each other like a bird you know otherwise when they're Germans around the ears talk you give you this all the way well that first night in the woods I thought I need to five sets of clean underwear I was so scared I heard the plane really low and then he shut off the engine I guess I don't know what happened in that plane but suddenly Berger right close to us I said later and they asked rule off I said how did they know we were all where to drop it he said you didn't see that a couple of guys at the flashlight with a shield around it and only up dish they didn't do like this just straight up and this plane see that immediately you could during the war too if you lit a cigarette the Germans shot at you because they the planes could see that and but this we were by our own thank goodness in the woods well we had to get the parachute off get the stuff out the boxes of containers for the marine and then dig a hole for the parachute and walk around and not all in a bundle one but that way the other went that way they know exactly where to go and go right to a farm or a house that was all good people and from there the weapons were moved by other underground people but identify scary if anybody tells you that he wasn't scared when he does a thing like that he's lying I know he is using his power as a River policeman to fight the Nazis John witty was heavily involved in the Dutch Resistance his group had weapons hidden in a variety of secret locations one morning he was asked to move a small cache of weapons from a farm the farmer became sick and his wife was very nervous because we have informed some on minutiae over not myths and I took that by I have canvassed sex on the on the back of my car and on both sides was an ultimate stand minutiae and also on the other side I went home and in my mind already in place where I can put it for the time being and only have to pass bridge whenever go gym and just at morning the wage earners on this side of the bridge and then the other side the division he stopped everybody and he found the amanushi and ended up the same day I was imprisoned and I was impatient to the end of all the war and I went very heavy investigation but and I thought for sure that that was the end of my life because they were very quickly to kill the people Hine managed to sneak a letter out of prison with instructions for dete he told her to get a fake ID and he liver a stack of stolen ration cards through a resistance member in The Hague he'd got on a train with stolen ration cards hidden inside her blouse it took maybe an hour maybe even longer and all of sudden detain it filled up and it faints at slowly good and then automatically you look outside when you're in a parking lot in the car next to you move you it's like something so I look outside and I always say I thought my heart stopped there were six gestapo guys for pet uniforms and to head the little encinia the things and they hopped on that thing because the trains have those stairs that you step on and they opened the doors and they came in and I was so nervous I thought oh no it's time for my first time Falls paper here that they are searching for me they were all the time in my pants I was the first two weeks they were every night and I don't know stay calm I thought the this thing goes to the hate The Hague is the headquarters of the Gestapo maybe all they have to do is go and report to the headquarters but they spread out in this train at six wagons and six people and they spread out and they started checking everything I did and he started and it went so fast he looked David back and it went that spread out and in the end he came to my thing my heart was pounding because he I had this full of the interest they had been looking for me for a year already all the time unexpectedly in my pants are they came at 3:00 and and 9 6 in the morning 4:00 in the afternoon you never knew I couldn't ask to go home and then to know that you have all that stuff and they are I was a nervous wreck and my heart was pounding I thought he must hear it and I didn't dare to look at the guy I thought he sees the fear and I think so I kept looking in my book and I gave it like that and it was like my book was so interesting I couldn't even see a word everything was bouncing and like with all the others they look and get it back and I didn't get it that and they looked at my teeth and my ID and they all burst out laughing and I knew there was something wrong with it but you know it was a real Informer Lombardy so I knew it's not that if you're scared if you have a false print let's say that you own a computer maker hundred dollar bill or something but this was real the Gestapo officers studied after train at the busy Rotterdam station hiding an envelope full of stolen ration cards deed found herself in a life-or-death situation it was a chilly or any day May 8 and it was really frizzy and miserable and we have all benches that people can sit but it was too cold and there were so few pain so loads of people were walking up and down you didn't sit there too cold and they said to me sit down they have to sit on the bench and the leader of this group he stood just here in front of me and the other five were standing in half a circle facing the guy and me and I started praying like I've never prayed before because I knew that this envelope was my death sentence and I paid to God to give me a chance get rid of this envelope I said then I'm still in the bind they are looking under two names but then I have a chance but with this I don't have a chance because the friends who had gotten out they also told that you are in person you totally understand they would find it and I'd opened my blouse I had a blast with buttons so all I needed was maybe 30 seconds to grab this and throw it then it could be anybody who was smoking and I think always later I mean you think back how much was your chances five people will face you I'm not looking all together everyone you know at the moment and I kept on praying and I said Lord really believe that we had to do this and the time to save your people the people you chose and hope my wedding dress is hanging and we expect so much of life and let it be possible that I get rid of this envelope and I kept on pay this guy who was standing there and I had really not paid attention I was too nervous and I hear that one of the Germans says to him you have that new raincoat is that really a lot of poo and it was a military coat and it was shiny and battleship gray and it was the first plastic plastic had just been found out but then an other one looks at it and says oh how nice it had to stitched on big pockets and he says that is handy I hope they get our zone - and then they stall got a sense he says do you think this is something he said this coat has pockets on the inside and that had never happened till that day and the other said really in a tone of surprise on the inside he said yes and he was 6 feet over 6 feet and it opens that's called right and all the headsman flew from my envelope now I mean I can't tell you the feast has been through me I mean that was such a miracle that a raincoat saved my life that got used again go to save my life DEET was sent to prison for having a false identification card just outside the prison gate the Gestapo officer gave her one last chance to explain why she had a fall identification card I'm so sorry he said you did not talk now you have to go to prison this is in you're a young girl I feel so bad for you he said bit you know what he says there are two treatments there and if you tell me how you got this ID he says then I'll tell that they have to treat you real well and then you make everything have a glass of wine with your meal you made you get a menu you may choose I mean this I mean I knew from people word being that it wasn't too but I just you know apple sauce that is in Dutch apple mousse and I think that's such a stupid word and I just said and I played so stupid yeah I said oh yeah you can choose what you want to eat I said may I choose Apple mousse and I fought over that you know so he so anyway I said I said I don't know so then we came to the prison and it has a high ball around it and there is a little door and I I've been done I think 30 years later maybe 10 years ago I was allowed to feel it again and then it hasn't a small bowel that you have to pass and he stood there and I stood there and he's had this finger near the Bell and he says to me that's the only time that I think I fell out of my role that was dangerous what I did but he was too stupid I think to realize it and he said I haven't yet best you can still tell me that you get a much better treatment you haven't yet I haven't yet breast and I got so sick of it that I took his thumb and I pressed me gave me a friend after spending weeks in the prison heat was transferred to a concentration camp she spent months fabricating an entirely fake story of her life until the day came when she had to face a panel of Nazi judges I was called out for my hearing and Freddie saw it Freddie was making twine on the table Freddie the Catholic girl and she knew it was life or death again if they would believe I told her that I was in a real bind and had to make up a fake story and then Freddie pretended that she had diarrhea and the guy who came pick me up was a nice Gestapo officer and he had to sign me out he was my sock bye-bye to my caseworker and he had to sign me out and well that happened Freddie past me and whispered in my ear I'm going to storm the gates of heaven for you and I always bless Fanny that she said that to me because I was filled with such a hatred I can describe all the hatred I had against the Germans against the Nazis I was angry with God I thought you sit there it happened and your people are killed by the thousands they didn't even know it was millions and my friends are killed and you can stop this and you don't do a thing and I was into this card I was angry and I was praying still on the Nazis I was praying God's damnation on every bastard I was so filled with anger and I thought we always say to friends I'll pray for you but Freddie was going to ram the gates of heaven for me and when I walked through that canvas that Officer and had to go to that hearing that he cannot be lie for then I remember that I was born poverty please comments promises and I'm always so grateful that my parents had me to a question school that they knew the Bible and that then the most important was not a hair of your hand to me all of your heavenly father and then I guess another one that we don't need every time but I needed at that time very much if you have to appear before authorities and things do not feel because I won't give you no words and that's what Jesus said about the Holy Spirit and I remember when I walked through that's maybe eight or nine minutes but he had them all and I said to God I have broken many promises in my life I said that you are God and you have said it and I hold to do your farmers I felt like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof were whole conversations with God and I held on to his promise and when I came in the building there were seven people sitting behind a clean table and they had high-ranked noodle incident and they had loads of medals and most of them were in the thirties forties and maybe a few fifty and fifty minutes before that I would have missed each one of them as dead as could be and when I looked at them I thought there you see and you think that you can decide about my life and you can't even touch a hair of my head if my father doesn't left and you're on the wrong side of the fence and you don't even know it and you think you have all the power that you really have nothing absolutely nothing and I could actually feel pity for those guys who thought they had it all we had nothing so I think that's another very big miracle besides the fear it was spiritual and time that you live on high high level you know that you felt fairly very close dot you are in the hands of the Lord and I've said so many times to the other prisoners we think they are in the hands of the jurors that above all they are in the hands of Allah Almighty gold and in the end the leader was I think in his 50s and he says to me I've done nothing else my whole life of materials and my I found put up and he said I have developed a sixth sense he says and I can't put a pin in your story and I said softly thank you Father because that was my thing he said but my sixth sense tells me it's all for loaning I was really thinking you're the brightest of the bunch because he sensed it but I didn't say a few weeks later deed was released from the prison camp and rejoined the resistance in 1945 winter 1945 January the hunger was terrible in the Netherlands they call it the hunger winter of 1945 Rotterdam amps and the big cities were really hit hard if I haven't to work on my bicycle in the morning I saw three four bodies laying on the street nobody picked him up starved died from the hunger there were also bodies that were shot because were sabotage the more the hunger more hunger there was the more sabotage the worse the people were desperate I hadn't friend Peter okay and Peter came from a family of five or six children and during the hunger during the last year of the war he's one day his father told the families is completely out of food they've nothing left and then his mother who was the nervous type began to curse God God tells us told us to pray for our daily bread and he would give us our daily bread if we ask him for it so we did and now now this and on and on she went a little while later someone knocked at the door the Baker and he in his hand he had a loaf of bread he says I have one loaf of bread left and I thought you might need it and Peter's father took the loaf brought it in put it on the table he says here is our daily bread now the mother broke down and cried till she spent all her tears that's a maturing experience that God does provide I have never spent one day in my life without Britain without food huh I just it's like man I know it's it's there it may not be much but it's enough to keep you alive and you have to have an eye for miracles too if Americans as the hunger grew worse people turned to unusual forms of food for nourishment in the midst of the hunger John Timur's aunt approached him with a cat one day I came and she said John I haven't cat here I want to get rid of can you help me I sure I can help you so I put a cat in a bag and tied and hung it over my steering wheel and my bike went home and showed the cat to the family I said let's eat it let's eat it I pass I pass so then my brother said okay John we'll kill the cat and you and I eat the cat it was not easy to kill a cat I tell you that they are tough there's nothing and a rabbit you know you can hit behind the ears and almost knock them dead but the cat has practically no ears to hold on to but people ate cats dogs sparrows anything that lived yeah well in prison in utrecht john widdy's name was called by the prison officials this meant almost certain death as he was walking out of his cell he caught the eye of a friend in the prison just happened to be that he came off some stairs and he saw me and I saw his face going right and I came home that was all but he was sure that I was going to be killed so he went to his minister there's a bit his skills and he went to his brother in the place where we were living is it with his coat now the brother of the minister it was a very calm and I said we don't tell his wife if she here and now of years after the war that doesn't make any difference and she's expecting a baby and you don't know what kind of influence that can have so my wife didn't never know some people in each dress new and then the war was over he came to our house to say condolence to my wife and I opened the door and and is it Agathe she doped words I thought it was ground and though I'm still alive well did Eamon was released from the concentration camp after several months her fiance Hine was deported to a concentration camp in Germany doubtful he would ever see her again he scribbled a short letter to deat on a piece of toilet paper and threw it from the Train miraculously someone found a note and send it to her this is his note and to me that is such a miracle because this is a faithful copy on a computer but he'll vanish it was like near tissues and if you think about it that in that time there was a lot of do at night in the morning everything was soaked and there was a lot of rain at that time and our next whale road tracks there pebbles there's gravel and the gold girls in the Netherlands and each village had to order between this finishing you keep that half short and you keep that culture but there were no men anymore so it was hanging us and he threw this and nandus to me the miracle of God that they even found it and then this is the note and it was not dissolved and it was not in the water and it reached it did the same to my parents and he holdin it that he was now going unexpectedly still and then he used an expert Germany of course and that ice soon would be in a free country and that he didn't think that we would see each other here on earth again first year I do not count that we will see each other soon again and then he writes that if it doesn't come back we will never be sorry for what we do so that is what I use when I speak to students as I say life is made of Joneses you know all the time you come this or that unless I make the right choice because then I tell them that you know Hank was 25 and he faced that and he feel that they are not sorry for what he did before the stand we took and that he loved me most in the whole world dete never saw her fiance Hine again did Amon and the Jews she had helped protect were pinned down in an underground shelter as the Allied army approached them he heard all the shells fly orgy and then explode and you're just for praying that it'll be on our heads and I think that the farmer's wife took the bag let me add Psalm 91 from all sides but to you it won't come and we just sat there and we pay a time he ate and then after three days and three nights all of a sudden it was totally quiet and to be honest it was even more spooky when all of a sudden that all stops and yeah but now and somebody had to go out and look and you didn't know what you would find you know and the Jewish people couldn't go out and I felt the farmer in his mouth and by the time that three kids and she was pregnant again they couldn't grow and the servants and honey and the people from iron him had already had a share so I felt I had to go out and I felt like that that no I let a figment out of the basement outside and I saw the most wonderful thing there was a big road in the distance and it was from the beginning to the end of Canadian things and I started turning towards them and then I thought how selfish I mean the Jewish people have known for years been inside they want to go so I don't quick around to tell them you can come out it's over and after he was conscious the legs of debt and stiffen them blood the bellies blow up it was it was spooky to look around everywhere later also Germans were lying that in the field but there was a ditch stream between the meadows and there were weeping willows and they were quite big and high and they hung back and I had heard that you heard all the time what happened but in Italy more allies were killed by snipers and really in the battle and I run back to the house and I see all of a sudden three Germans are until the teeth is nice little enema and boots and thunder them weeping willows in the water golly and they saw that I had seen them and they weren't up to anything good they were not going to surrender otherwise they would have gone the other way and I thought oh no they might shoot me you know because then they'd have you come so I started singing back to the things and then I told tanker the guy who I saw I said two or three I think snipers I think they're hit hiding and they're heavily armed and so three things turned off the road and then they went with me too and I pointed them out there they asked and they were get out of the water and in their boots for dipping and each tank took when in the front like a mascot and I felt so happy you know the payment for all the misery on May 5 1945 the Nazis surrendered in Holland almost exactly five years and after they had first been attacked the Dutch celebrated the end of Nazi tyranny I personally feel not we in spite of the fact that we were in the decisions I feel always a little bit guilty that we did not do enough but we were empty-handed we have excuses plenty but our conscious said things we didn't do enough to save more Jewish people if you have a faith whatever it is you have guidelines and if you don't have any religion you still have a little voice even you know what Santana won't listen to the only way to live with yourself and have peace that is the story [Music] you [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Vision Video

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Keywords: Christian Videos, Christian Films, Christian Movies, Religious Movies, Films, Movies, Entertainment, Feature Films, World War 2, World War II, Nazi, Nazis, Jews, Jewish, Holocaust, Resistance, John Witte, Making Choices: The Dutch Resistance During World War II

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Length: 56min 20sec (3380 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 16 2020