Making Choices: The Dutch Resistance During World War II | Full Movie | John Witte
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- Making Choices: The Dutch Resistance During World War II | Full Movie | John Witte
A moving and well crafted first hand account of four Dutch survivors of the 1940 Nazi invasion of Holland who helped protect total strangers from certain death.
Explore the dramatic wartime lives of four Dutch citizens who took a stand to protect Jews and resist the overwhelming power of the Nazis during World War II. This inspiring documentary tells their stories of fear and courage, danger and faith as they put their lives on the line to do what they thought was right. Featuring four participants in the Dutch Resistance who now make their home in America, Making Choices reveals what motivated them to risk everything to protect total strangers and the heavy price they paid for challenging the Nazis.
Director: Robert Prince
Starring: John Witte - บันเทิง
I was born in Rotterdam in 1943. My father was called up got forced labour in Germany. My mother gave me to her mother and we went to her hotel in Arnhem. My mother followed my father dresses as a nurse and helped him escape. They lived underground till the war was over. Our family eventually reunited and my father decided to emigrate from the mess of Europe. He chose Australia as he had been born in Dutch East Indies. We never talked about the war. I later joined the Australian Army becoming a lieutenant colonel.
No one cares
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But you still wasted your "Valuable" time🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@norbertschmitz3358what an amazing story thank you for taking the time to share it
@@a.nelprober-rl5cfnot true I do
Thanks for your service
My in-laws were in the Dutch Resistance in Nijimegen during WW2. My father in law on the Resistance "front line" and my mother in law was a messenger for them. Now both are deceased, but to us, they are true heroes. God Bless them all.......
Indeed they are both real heroes . God preserve their beautiful souls .
Wow - yes they were extraordinary heroes. God bless your family.
And now we just hand over all of their hard fought freedoms to a bunch of TYRANTS based on a LIE about a damned BAD COLD!!!
Shame on us ALL!!!
@@AndrewFosterSheff69 you are crazy, the tyrants you are referring to are democratically elected. They are doing their best at a time when everything is new and people do not know what is best for the people. Quite different from Nazis who deliberately exterminate people. Shame on you pretending that this is the same time as World War II.
If the "tyrants" didn't come up with the rules that now exist, there would be more deaths. Corona is not a cold, but a different disease. Much more dangerous than the flu.
they are true brave heroes
We zullen jullie blijven eren,herinneren en herdenken. Bedankt tot in de eeuwigheid. 🇳🇱
MY GRAND PARENTS WERE IN SOBIBOR AS FRENCH RESISTERS DIED MAY 7 1943 R I P ANNA HAAS SHULZ AND EMIL SCHULZ
I had a great-uncle who was a makeup artist for the Royal Amsterdam Ballet. During the war he helped the Dutch Underground with disguises, makeup, wigs, costume etc. for agents and citizens they were helping to flee or to hide. He didn't speak about it but family knew and proudly, but quietly, told my brother and I.
Great!
That is fascinating. I hope you all have documented his experience.
You absolutely should, if not.
The world is waiting.
good on your great uncle very brave man
He was one the God’s puzzles who was perfectly fitting in this very courageous beautiful powerful and yet painful story! May God bless his family! All glory to God !
That's wonderful and so interesting.
To all the heroes… never ever say you did not do enough.
Thank you for all that you did.
My mother and father survived the war in Holland. They didn't like to talk about it much but what they told me seemed so unimaginable. But hearing these people talk about it brings it all together for me. I'm always looking for things to give me some idea of what they endured. Thanks for sharing.
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” - John 15:13. Respect to the heroes who remained true to the greater love, and who continued to follow the light when the world went dark.
This the most powerful testimony I have ever witnessed, these brave people, I have read somewhere that if you save one life you save the whole world.
Absolutely 👍
You want to read The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
@@suzanne4504 we are all under occupation again
That saying is in the Jewish Talmud.
"He who saves one life is as if he has saved the world entire."
That saying was later ripped off by the Muslims and Mohammad as it is found also in the Hadiths of Islam.
You will hear Muslims swear to you it is an original Muslim saying but the Talmud came centuries before Islam.
It is a very nice proverb.
Yes, it is a saying of the Jewish Religion, but even as an atheist, I fully agree with it. I think that, when faced with making a hard choice - doing the right thing to save another person instead of just looking after yourself - you confirm the one thing that really matters.
Namely, saying that you are part of a larger group and that putting the group ahead of yourself is the thing that is inane to our species and key to our survival.
This is what he was talking about when he said that he regretted nothing.
Thanks for your story, for surviving, for sacrificing and doing what you could to make life for the enemy as rough as you possibly could. The good guys don't win every battle but righteousness always wins in the end.
I was so moved by these stories. I wish my mother had told me more. Mam was 4 years old in Arnhem,1939 .
Me too. Mum was in the resistance and told me a lot, but I wish it had been more too.
Beautiful people with faith and immense courage. Very moving. Thank you.
Thank you so very much for all you have done !!! I'm proud because my grandfather and my uncle were War heroes to, my grandpa survived, but my uncle died at a transport between Oranienburg and Bergen-Belsen. May their memory be blessed forever ! RIP 🙏🙏🙏
Incredible!
Such incredible bravery and selflessness, for no other reason then “that little voice that tells you what’s right and what’s wrong”.
Rest in sweet peace Heinz! 🕊🤍
just visited the Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam, hope Dutch and European never forget what dictators look like, and never believe single word from them
These people are a living treasure and courageous beyond measure. What a life they have lived, it makes me feel so unaccomplished by comparison.
"We seek refuge in the shadow of your wings."
Touching
Psalm 91:1
He who hides in the shelter of the LORD rests in the shadow of the Almighty
Amein
Amen
Such bravery of these people. Their belief in God is amazing. Wish more were like that today
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Indeed...amazing people...God is all-powerful and hears a cry or a sigh...made in faith
I pay tribute to all Dutch believers who were so courageous during WW2 and, because of their understanding of the Jewish nation being God’s chosen people, took great risks to help and hide precious Jews. God bless each one. Shalom!
Why only dutch believers? I think communists did a better job in the Netherlands, but also in Belgium and France. They fought against the nazi's. They were the last men standing in Germany, but with the cold war coming behind WOII they never get the salute for that.
you sound like hitler
@@vincentr5850 You're crazy? The communists were the worst enemy's for the nazi's.
@@berjangerrits4099 i was talking to isobel but i rather be a nazi then communist
@@vincentr5850 o allright then :D, but far from the truth.
Why would you be a nazi instead of a communist? Communists were great people, exept for the leaders. They were for equality. The common people. Stalin and the leaders not ofcourse.
What a fantastic documentary. My wife is Swedish. Her grandfather was in the Swedish underground (yes, there was a Swedish underground) and would smuggle Danish Jews into Sweden. We still have the watch he used (1939 Bulova - black onyx face, mother-of-pearl hour markers, with the original crystal cover - including the small crack that was there when her grandfather gave it to her father, who gave it to my wife) when he would smuggle Jews in. I am a BIG follower of WW2, I have studied and taught it. The amazing things that were done by ordinary people during that time is astounding to me. My father-in-law, being the first true Swede I had ever met and was 12 in 1939, and I would have conversations about his growing up in Sweden during the war. He knew his father was in the underground and he was sent to near Lapland to stay with his grandparents with his brothers, sisters and mother while his father stayed in Stockholm. Fascinating to me.
My opa was in the resistance. I miss him every day. Love you opa Koos.
Thank you for this galant story of the Dutch Resistance and of their struggles during WW2. We normally hear of the French but seldom of the Dutch. Again thank you for their stories of heart break and final conquest.
Most history of the Hollywood type is written by Americans. The Netherlands were liberated by Canadians in some of the hardest hedgerow to hedgerow fighting of the war. Canadian veterans are still celebrated as liberators in Holland today. Every Canadian war grave is assigned to a Dutch child who cares for it, writes to the family and send photos if requested. My father and stepfather were both in Holland in 1945 and had stories of the gratitude shown by the Dutch as each town was liberated. The women of the Dutch royal family also were sheltered in Canada during the war and when the future queen was born in an Ottawa hospital, the Canadian government declared it to be a Dutch consulate so she was officially born on Dutch soil to avoid any citizenship issues later.
The Dutch werent that help full , police stood at the side of the Germans , the Telegraaf a newspaper still exist was on side of the Germans , a citizen who would tell de German where a Jew was hidden got 7 guilders . what I want to say with this is that from the Royal house till a great group of people where wrong , and dont, forget the Jews who worked fore the Germans and had to select the kids whom had to go to the camps . The real story,s are hardly heard but I got them from first hand my grandmother and mother went through it and believe me there where more tratoirs then helpers !!
@@egongefferie9194 That's why they are called the Dutch Resistance, not the Dutch people. Like every other conquered country, many people cooperated with the Germans for the usual reasons, fear, ideology, money, sex, advancement.
Yes my mum said she loved the Canadians because they gave starving Dutch people food.@@johnkidd1226
You are the dove Diet, what a saint. God Bless you and your Christian patriots. Thank you Mr Witte for this film.
What incredible young people they were so brave so trusting in God these people truly made a difference in this earth fighting Satan and all the evil in the world. I'm in awe of each and every person that lived during that time
These people have made good in The Eyes of The Lord.
Amen
I've watched a lot of these type of first hand account documentary's on both WW1 and 2. This is by far the best, compiling viewing.
The anecdote about the German soldier who said he hated Hitler, is equally uplifting and heartbreaking. If only more people could have risen up.....
I know about a story of German soldier who was part of a razzia searching for hidden Jews. When he opened the cellar door of a Dutch house he looked straight into the terrified faces of an entire Jewish family. He closed the door and shouted to his fellow soldiers: "Nothing here" and they all left for the next address.
A lot hated Hitler
What we have lived through in the past 4 years, with forced vaccines, and the level of irrational, horrendous, brutal, vicious hatred towards the "unclean" unvaccinated should have made it quite clear to us how Nazi Germany happened!
A lot of Germans hated the Nazis, especially as the allies began closing in on them from east and west, but to say it or to resist in any manner would mean execution.
One very young future ballerina did her part by dancing to make people happy, and also to make money for the Resistance at the risk of her life. At the end of the war, her teacher said she had lost too much weight and couldn't dance professionally , but should go into modeling and acting. Her name was Audrey Hepburn.
IMO still the most lovely young woman, in fact she was voted in the 60s or 70s? by knowledgeable people in the beauty industry as the most beautiful naturally looking (without cosmetics) woman in the world.
@@dinerouk Audrey was Dutch and she grew up in The Netherlands. She had a Dutch mother and an English father. Perhaps the best of both genetic worlds combined to create such a truly beautifull and quintessetial European woman of all time.
really? how very interesting!
There is a book about her life in the Netherlands during WW2. It's called Dutch Girl by Robert Matzen.
Awe inspiring doc. Brave brave people. He who saves one life....saves the world entire ❤️🙏
Back again for Thanksgiving 2022. "You have to have an eye for miracles." So true. I see things most people ignore and they have helped me in hard times as well as making the good times better.
The unsung heroes of the war. "We didn't do enough", you did what you could at great risk.
Funny how even today, tyrants believe "I was just following orders" will let them off! Let this sink in plod! We will not forget what you are doing to us even today!
Excellent!!!
Such Hero's
'I will never leave you, nor forsake you' 😉
Trust in the Lord with all your heart.❤
Wonderful and amazing people !!
From Canada, the host of the Dutch Royal Family during the WAR.. so much love & courage will never be forgotten; Canada entered the war in 1939 with EU
Eu didn't exist then. Our countries were stolen from under us after then!!!
The Royal Dutch family fled like the cowards they are. Not one of their palaces or possessions was touched by the Nazis. The royal family's role was despicable and my parents became anti-royalists from then on. If it had been up to Roosevelt they would not have been allowed back in but he died before Mien Tippel (Wilhelmina) just brazenly took control again. Truman did not know any better. Eisenhower, as the Governor General, resisted her as well but was also pressured by a higher authority. Canada should have refused them but it was a crown colony in those days and was told by the Windsors to take them in. Why the Canadians are so proud of that floors me.
@@dirkvanulden2329 If the Queen and the government hadn't left, the nazi's had forced the Netherlands into a Vichy-like regime. Any dutchman fighting the germans would've been a partisan and be shot on sight. Going to London was a smart move.
Beautiful story. My father was also in the Dutch underground; one story I can tell. His comrades had captured a German soldier and brought this man to my father. They gave dad a club, and gave him the opportunity to beat him to his death, for the Germans had captured dad's older brother and he perished in a concentration camp. He would/could not do it. His comrades then did it for him.
God preserve and bless your father . May he be granted a seat in Paradise .
charlie van kesteren this documentary had my heart really soft afterwards I read your post and then the tears started flowing. May our Father in heaven continue to bless and comfort everyone affected from ww2
Thats murder ,
I was laughing and crying at the same time. Such interesting stories. Such brave people!!
Psalm 91. Under the shadow of His wings one should seek refuge.
Psalms 23:1-6
1. Psalm 23
A Psalm of David.
Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures;
He leadeth me beside still waters.
3. He restoreth my soul:
He guideth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil; for thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
5. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou hast anointed my head with oil;
My cup runneth over.
6. Surely goodness and lovingkindness shall follow me all the days of my life;
And I shall dwell in the house of Jehovah for ever.
[ASV]
Aaaaamen!!!
Amén Amén Amén!!!!
What a powerful woman of God. She held to the words of her Father in heaven and looked fear straight in the face and survived.
Yes, and this is why Christians need to know their Bibles and know the promises of God, for such a time as this.
This is such an important account.
the greatest hero of the dutch resistance is hannie schaft a young communist girl who killed nazis and traitor
Wow, what courage you'al did your best, God Bess!
Please reload this with the volume turned up a little and the background music turned down. Slightly hard of hearing and have computer turned up as loud as I can get it.
The connection between the Dutch and the liberating Canadians remains in 2021. Each year they send Canada tulip bulbs which are planted in honor of these days.
Thank you for Resisting the evil Nazis, and loving the Jewish people. you will always have a place in the heart of the Eternal Gd.
My father in law and mom in law were in the resistance in Amsterdam during the war !
They were so courageous to stand up to the terrible evil during ww2
The Dutch are amazingly resilient. I am Canadian and I dearly love that country.
So moving and clear what happened. I am so sorry your country had to endure that and praise your for your efforts in stopping and halting the Germans the best you could. Thank you for your story
My grandfather never talked to me about the war and the resistance, my mother told me about the stories her father and brothers told.... all I have is the stories and a single resistance pin to show what my family had done to help people.
What a story ,I watched this with tears running down my face. I am so glad you finally could tell your experiences . So sad you never got to see your fiance again. 😢 how strong you all are. To face such horrific things and look death in the face. Younger generations need to watch this and learn. You all have such a staunch faith in god. It was a miracle you survived. 🌺 I live in arnhem and have heard such storys from here too. Brave beyond belief. Lest we forget ....🌺
This was great. I especially liked every Bible verse especially from Psalm 91.
God bless this true heroes!!!!!
I just wanted to say thank you for posting these videos. They have been so uplifting in these times
Beautiful story. Thank you dear friends for having done what your conscience told you.
thank you for posting
In most documentaries on the holocaust, you never hear any survivors talk about the grace of God or give any credit to God at all for their survival. This documentary is so refreshing to hear of Christians incorporate Jesus into their struggles and survival. I absolutely loved it! Thank you for sharing
Except, Corrie Ten Boom.
@@kanamichelle7404 correct! And what an absolutely amazing testimony she has. It's not shared enough
@@beatrixbrennan1545 👍🏻❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻
I would imagine many felt guilty they lived and some probably would have wished it was them and not their loved ones who died
What an inspiring and moving video. Thank you so much for posting. We need to remember their stories in the coming persecutions.
I discovered this channel some few days ago and I have the opinion it‘s one of the best in Christianity parallel mingled with history fact‘s ! Thank you so much!
Thank you! Everyone, young and old, must watch and listen to this documentary.
I am in awe of these testimonies
Thank you & God Bless. Amen.
I was born in 1969. In school, I only had a limited interest in history lessons; taking some, and leaving some. As an adult citizen of the United States of America, seeing the alarming and absurd uprising of racist, Putinist, and Trumpist sociopaths/psychopaths, I'm studying contemporary political/military history with a voracious appetite. I would like to see preventable disasters and misery PREVENTED. Thank you kindly for this presentation.
Ditto...I feel history is repeating itself ...I'm watching what I can..( I was born '59)
I have always thought the Dutch and the Poles were the bravest populations during WWII. God bless them all.
many, many others...not only the Dutch and Poles.
Everyone fighting the nazi's was. Or fighting the Japanese.. It's not a bloody contest anyway.
Except that many, many Poles either turned in Jews for the reward or killed them themselves. Not all, of course, but Poland was and remains an extremely anti-Semitic nation. Same sh*t happened in the Baltics, especially in Latvia and Lithuania. The Dutch, the Danes and the Norwegians were by far the most empathetic and brave regarding helping the Jews of all the occupied countries.
Hallelujah!
Amazing people ...withe faith & courage ....
Fabulous documentary
THANK YOU
My Dad was over there in WW2 said wonderful people .
What a Faith!
Respect to you all. Well done
God bless you and your Family ,Iam from Brasil
Dry.. interesting story. Thank you. Very brave people 🙏💁♀️💕
Brilliant documentary.
Very brave people, who risked their lives to help others. Decent, good people. God bless them. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
“Their guards went down, that was their big mistake” man wasn’t playing
Thank you so much for sharing it was wonderful, so horrible and sad but yet beautiful. Praise God!
Mooie documentaire 🙏
A beautiful video!! G-d Bless
Great respect for the resistance in a country with no hills and mountains. There is no place to hide and find shelter in Holland. A band couldn't ambush the enemy and escape to safety, the way the Yugoslav and Greek partisans did. Dutch resistance fighters were real heroes.
So true as Hollabd is so flat!
I think some hid on farms, pretending to be labourers.
Such brave people. We are now in more harrowing times. The time of the end, where as the bible says, good will become evil and evil will become good. Natural disasters will occur all over the world. The people of God will be persecuted. We need to rely totally on the Lord, as the good people in this video have done.
Because your Lord has done such a fine job?
Relying on the Lord to do what, exactly? He appears to have been extremely unreliable to a lot of people in, for example, WW2.
You think today is worse? You better read more about the Third Reich and the Japanese Empire and the Stalinist pogroms. The only way today is worse is that people have no sense of self sacrifice or responsibility to others. And no sense of Hope.
I wouldn't say we are in more harrowing times now, but there are certainly indications that we are going down the same road.
Amen.
Well done
What an amazing story , you did more that enough , best wishes .
My opa hid in a windmill while Germany was approaching. He has passed now but him and his wife got a ship to New Zealand and that is where they stayed
And so it is in every war.
How encouraging this lady's testimony of clinging to Jesus' promises during those times.
If you ever come to the netherlands visit the resistance cemetery in Bloemendaal. 373 of them are buried there.
What riveting stories of God's grace. Thank you for producing this video.
I'm watching this in stages. It's hard. My mum was around John Witte's age and she was in the Dutch Resistance in Utrecht. She told me a lot of stories. But I wish she'd told me more. She died in 2011.
NB I was brought up in England -- Mum moved here after the war. I never heard stories like hers from anyone else because England wasn't invated.
She used to take Jewish children to safe houses and pretend they were her nieces and nephews. I often wonder if some of them are still alive and remember her. Pretty, blonde, lively, Gijsbertha van Dijkhuizen.
My uncle's fought in WWII For CANADA
Me too. Three in the army liberating Holland, two in the air and their brother, my dad hunting U-Boats. Plus a dozen others, including two aunts in uniform. Did you shed a tear when she said, "Canadian tanks"?
27 people in one apartment? My lord.... Those poor people.
This is really eye-opening. I would suggest the fictional book "Hunger Winter", because it's set in the time that he was talking about.
These are all such wonderful people, to risk their lives as they did, for God's people. I have to say Diet was my personal favorite!
The Dutch had the highest amount of Nazi collaborators in the war, and by far. And some of the most despicable of all were Dutch. Such as Andries Riphagen who sold out hundreds if not thousands of Jewish families. The country fell to the Nazis in just days. If there was a resistance like this it was very small, and certainly had to fight uphill. Against many of their own people as well as the Germans. God Bless the few who had the courage.
Same as in France! The Netherlands had more members in the Resistance than inhabitants. And, of course, no one ever colloberated.
Funny, no one ever speaks about the German resistance movements. There were quite a few!
Quite a few? a very small % of the population.
In the netherlands about 10 procent of the People were colloberators and only 5 procent were in the resistance and the rest of the People Just tried too survive the day
@@yvontaart4274 They were also shaving the heads of their women who had been "collaborating" with the Germans, just as in France and Denmark, Belgium, Norway.... I think the German resistance was more active before the war, between 1933 et 1939, when they have all been massacred by the Nazi Regime.
Such testimonies of faith from these resistance fighters. They each put themselves in danger for their fellow man and put their trust in God
These are good people
My Great Uncle was in the Dutch underground in Roermond. I believe he was one of 15 members in the city. Our family awoke the first morning as the Germans had marched in overnight and occupied the streets. My teenage mother's boyfriend, as part of a selected group, was chosen to be executed, and they were, to show that the Germans meant business from the start. My Great Uncle was interrogated by the Gestapo twice during the war and had his ribs kicked in each time, but never confessed and was released each time. My mother helped him prior to her being interred in a total of three separate German forced labor camps, successively, after she tried to escape from each. Many of the other Russians, Polish, and Dutch were machine gunned during each attempted escape. She was a lucky one. Her first forced labor camp was in the Ruhr, and she ended the war after 4 years of forced labor in Regensburg, Bavaria. We are proud of their dedication and fight.
Those word; Psalm 91. “Your word , O’ Lord is a lamp unto my feet . A light unto my path.” ‘
Besides, “ How can a man know his path, when his steps are from the Lord.” Ecclesiasticus..
“ Do not put off your conversion for The day of the Lord is at hand.”
Does anyone happen to know the name/composer of the piano piece played during the title sequence? Thanks in advance.
If you're hiding from the Germans, why would you be sitting next to a window playing a piano? 18:39