At Theatre of Remembrance, we work with partners from all over Europe. For our edition in 2025, we collaborated with organisations in Turin, Budapest, Berlin, Bratislava, Prague, Warsaw, Goleniów, Hooghalen, Helsingør, and Amsterdam. With such a diversity of perspectives, we wanted to highlight and learn more about their WWII histories. 

We asked our partners: ‘Teach us about a unique piece of history from your country relating to WWII’, and here’s what they had to say: 

Nikolett Gabri, from STOP-KLATKA, in Warsaw

“In Poland, the resistance movement during the war was really big. A big event was an uprising in Warsaw in 1944. After the war, each year on the 1st of August in Warsaw, the people are singing the songs of this resistance movement. It’s the commemoration day of this event.”

Viola Kallós, from Itt és Most Társulat, in Budapest

“1944 March when Hungary was attempted to be pulled out of the war. But the Nazis took over again. The German army/soldiers marched through the streets. One of the elderly who we interviewed to research for our performance also recalls this story very well, how she saw the boots of the soldiers march through the streets.”

Simon Hebeltoft, from Out Of Office, in Helsingør

“The Danish government leaked the information that the Jewish people were going to be caught by the Nazis, so that the Jewish people could flee in time. This was form of resistance and is one of the collective memories of the Danish.”

Hilde Tuinstra, from the National Holocaust Museum, in Amsterdam

“When the Nazis took over the Netherlands, there was a a very big strike in Amsterdam at the end of February. The communists organised this strike, and we actually found out that there were a lot of women engaged in this strike. The Nazis struck back really hard, some people were put in prison and even died. It was really an important moment for the Dutch people to see how harshly the Nazis would strike back if you tried to resist.”

Maris de Jong, representing Garage TDI & Memorial Centre Camp Westerbork, in Assen & Hooghalen

‘’There is one story we call ‘Dolle Dinsdag’ (Crazy Tuesday): on a Tuesday in 1944, there were signs that the English and Americans were on their way, so people thought the Netherlands would be freed soon. Everyone started partying, celebrating, thinking the war would be over but the English and Americans did not come, and the German army shut down the celebrations. It took another year for the Netherlands to be actually liberated’’