4 real historical locations · Netherlands
A Dutch film based on the true story of Walraven van Hall, a bank director who secretly embezzled millions from his own bank to fund the Dutch resistance — paying for false documents, hiding Jews, supporting strikes — until his arrest and execution in March 1945.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Netherlands.
Dutch banker Walraven van Hall secretly diverts millions of guilders from the Dutch National Railways to fund the Resistance — financing strikes, hiding Jews...
Walraven van Hall diverted 87 million guilders from the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and Dutch National Railways to fund Resistance operations. He financed the February Strike of 1941, the first mass strike against the de...
View location →Walraven van Hall operates his financial resistance network from Haarlem, laundering money through his father's business and raising funds to bribe officials...
Walraven van Hall (1906–1945) financed major Dutch resistance operations including the railway strike fund and the Amsterdam dock workers' strike. He is estimated to have saved 300 lives through his network.
View location →Van Hall organises a robbery of 50 million guilders from the Amsterdam Municipal Bank to fund the railway workers' strike — one of the largest wartime bank o...
The September 1944 Dutch railway strike aimed to support Market Garden. When it failed, Germany cut off food supplies to the west — triggering the Hunger Winter of 1944–45 that killed 22,000 Dutch civilians.
View location →Van Hall is captured by the SD in February 1945 and executed at Haarlemmerliede on 12 March 1945 — just eight weeks before the Netherlands was liberated. He ...
Walraven van Hall was arrested after an informer betrayed him. He was shot alongside seven other resistance members. He was awarded the Military Order of William (Netherlands' highest military honour) posthumously.
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