Go to content
Documentary in which different people talk about The Waterlooplein: the café Waterlooplein, Nico Bodemeijer, who never talks about his war experiences, and the Dutch-Jewish Girls' Orphanage.
The Waterlooplein 77 café in Rapenburgerstraat in Amsterdam, where the Dutch croon song is cherished owing to proprietor Annie Bodemeijer, celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary. Her husband Nico Bodemeijer, who never talks about his war experiences, runs a series of stands on the Waterlooplein market.The house next to the pub also has a reason to commemorate. In World War II, the Dutch-Jewish Girls' Orphanage was located there. During a round-up on 10 February 1943, all one hundred orphan girls were run in and deported, save one. Suzy Rottenberg tells director Sander Burger how she got away, returned to Amsterdam after the war and never dared set foot in Rapenburgerstraat again. Exactly sixty years later, the original facing bricks and lettering are restored in memory of the orphan girls.

Credits

Set geluid
Production company
Jura Filmprodukties
TV company
AT5
Distributor NL
Lava Filmproducties en distributie

Title: Ons Waterloo
Year: 2003
Duration : 38 minutes
Category: Short Documentary
Edition: NFF 2003

NFF Archive

You are now in the NFF Archive. The archive contains contains information on film, TV and interactive productions that were screened at past festival editions. The NFF does not dispose of this material. For this, please contact the producer, distributor or broadcaster. Sometimes, older films can also be found at the Eye Film Museum or the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Stills

Still
Still