Houd Moed! – theater door Het Lage Licht

Theater foundation Het Lage Licht presents Keep Courage! Three young men tell stories that have been kept quiet for too long. They tell how they were arrested and what they experienced in the German labor camps. The play is based on stories of survivors, memories, diaries and letters. The performance lasts about 45 minutes and afterwards there is an opportunity to talk.

Part of the project 'My father's story. Places of separation become places of connection'. This focuses on the great raid of Rotterdam and Schiedam, which took place 80 years ago this year, on 10 and 11 November 1944. Within two days, 52,000 boys and men, aged 17 to 40, were deported to the East of the Netherlands and Germany via 11 collection points. It would turn out to be the largest raid for forced labour in the Netherlands. An estimated 500 men did not survive. The returned men, some of whom were still boys, had experienced a lot, but had mostly kept quiet about what had happened to them.