Silence beneath the Occupied Streets

In the summer of 1942, a quiet but mortal choice fell upon thousands of ordinary Dutch citizens: look away, or open their doors. Across the flat, exposed geography of the occupied Netherlands — where hiding was harder than anywhere else in Western Europe — an estimated 25,000 to 28,000 Jewish men, women, and children vanished from public life into cellars, attics, and back rooms, becoming onderdui...