This would much more accurately be called National Occupation Museum. It’s very much the story of how non-Jewish Dutch experienced May 1940 to May 1945. The Temporary Exhibition space of the museum at present has „With creativity, reuse and improvisation, the Dutch women try to stay beautiful during the occupation. A new fashion image is emerging, as can be seen in the ‚Fashion on the voucher‘ exhibition in the Resistance Museum Amsterdam“. A sample:
Here „occupying forces began to keep a register“ might more accurately read „occupying forces used the registers dutifully provided to them by Dutch civil authorities“, „occupying forces began to deport Jews to concentration camps, where many were murdered“ might be rephrased as „Dutch police, Dutch civil authorities and Dutch Jewish councils obeyed occupying forces to deport Jews to concentration camps, where 102,000 of 107,000 deportees were murdered“. A significantly higher percentage of Dutch Jews died than Belgian or French Jews.
