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Series

The Jewish Council

2024 · 1 season · 5 episodes · Ended · NPO 1

Drama, War & Politics

TMDB 7.5 · 7 votes

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In 1940s Amsterdam, Jewish Council co-chairman David Cohen and his daughter Virrie have their bond tested as they pursue increasingly opposing ways of safeguarding their community under Nazi rule.

Episodes

  • S01E01The Mayors of Jewish Amsterdam2024-03-1046m

    Hoping to prevent violence, professor David Cohen joins the Nazi-imposed Jewish Council, but continued deportations drive his family toward resistance.

  • S01E02The Yellow Stain2024-03-1751m

    After an SS inspection, the Jewish Council enforces Nazi orders to avoid worse, while Piet Meerburg’s resistance ring grows with Virrie’s help and family tensions escalate.

  • S01E03The Jewish Dictator2024-03-2445m

    As the SS breaks promises and targets even the exempt, Asscher resists, Cohen saves Virrie from deportation—only to be condemned by her as a collaborator.

  • S01E04The Longest Night2024-03-3146m

    After the war, survivors like the Cohens return to a difficult homecoming marked by legal battles, accusations of collaboration, and Virrie’s lasting resentment toward her father’s impossible wartime choices.

  • S01E05The Little Shoah2024-04-0747m

    Hoping to prevent violence, professor David Cohen joins the Nazi-imposed Jewish Council, but continued deportations drive his family toward resistance.

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