Resistance Through Their Eyes

2026-07-22

To be realised nearly 80 years following the end of World War II in Europe, “Resistance through their Eyes” (RTTE) is a proposed travelling exhibition and youth event series that will focus on sharing different perspectives of those individuals and groups who engaged in acts of resistance against the Nazi totalitarian regime during World War II. Organised by a consortium that includes the LRE Foundation (Arnhem NL), Stichting Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam (“Resistance Museum” – Amsterdam NL), Comune di Milano(“City of Milan” – Milan IT), Weiße Rose Stiftung e.V. (“White Rose Foundation”-Munich DE), and the Muzeum AK (“Home Army Museum” – Krakow PL), this project will feature diverse perspectives of those individuals in the resistance that included among others, women, students, Jews, Roma/Sinti, homosexuals, and another groups from all walks of life. The project’s main goal is to deepen a multi-perspective, European transnational understanding of this history and to demonstrate the impacts it had on minority groups, communities, and countries across Europe during the war. In addition, it will link the resistance leaders would go on play in the post-war justice and reconciliation processes that included the development of modern human rights protections in Europe. To accomplish this goal, the project consortium will organise a travelling temporary historical exhibition, online exhibition, 4 youth events, 1 international workshop for WWII educators and stakeholders, guide training workshop, and a concluding conference that will reach 750 direct participants in NL, DE, IT, PL and 320.000 indirect participants across Europe.

Netherlands

2025-10-15