Laurien Vastenhout

The Story of the Netherlands tells the story of the country we live in, from the moment the first inhabitants settled there. Never before has our history, and how it has made us who we are today, been made tangible in this way. The project consists of a 10-part television series for NPO 1, with Daan Schuurmans as narrator.

Journalist Max Arian retells his experience as a survivor of the Holocaust in the Netherlands while contemplating on why more Jewish people were deported from the Netherlands than from any other Western European nation.