During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, painter Willem Arondeus and cellist Frieda Belinfante, used their artistic skills to make fake identity cards which saved thousands of Jews from the death camps. Knowing that the Nazis kept duplicates, Arondeus led a raid on the records office where they were kept. He was captured and Belinfante fled the country and went on to a post-war conducting career in the US.
Stephen Fry, whose mother lost cousins in the Holocaust and is playing a Polish Auschwitz survivor in the forthcoming movie Treasure, signed on to front the documentary after hearing the Arondeus-Belinfante story from the producers.
How much did you know about the story of Willem Arondeus and Frieda Belinfante?
I knew nothing and I was slightly ashamed, but one of the
