Andere Tijden

In 1946, resistance member Joop Hollebrands reported the abduction of two children to the police in Haarlem. Bert and Marleen Sanders went into hiding with him and his family during the war. It is the beginning of a chilling search for what happened to the pair, their sister Elly and their parents David and Clara. Eighty years later, Joop's daughter Corrie still cries when she tells how Bert and Marleen were dragged away before her eyes by a Dutch SD police officer in 1943. The arrest is the work of the infamous Colonne Henneicke, Dutch bounty hunters who scour the country in search of Jewish victims.

Pre-vocational secondary education has existed for 25 years, but the anniversary is not necessarily a reason for great joy; the school type suffers from an image problem. For many people, education is considered inferior, parents and children prefer to aim for so-called 'higher' education, while society is eager for practically trained professionals and they may be the 'millionaires of the future'. Including Tineke Netelenbos, who worked as a teacher in vocational education in the late 1960s and later as State Secretary responsible for the introduction of pre-vocational secondary education, former teacher Albert Evenhuis, teacher Hendrik Atze van Doezum and former pre-vocational secondary education student Pascal Koning.

They are part of the formation: migrant workers. They work in the distribution centers, the greenhouses, the slaughterhouses. Now there are employment agencies that supply these people, but in the past you had subcontractors for this: shady figures who underpaid people, did not pay premiums and pocketed a lot of money themselves. In archive footage from 40 years ago we see groups of men waiting at 5 o'clock in the morning for vans to take them to their low-paid jobs. Actually nothing has changed. The vans still drive back and forth early in the morning. Those with the weakest position in society still do the hardest and dirtiest work.

Illusionist Hans Klok inherited a number of moving boxes with magical material from the Jewish magician Theo Bamberg, better known as Okito. For Klok, Okito is a hero. Who was this once world-famous magician, who enchanted people all over the world with his arts in the last century? The Jewish Museum is preparing an exhibition about him and his fellow Jewish magicians. Just before the Second World War, Theo Bamberg managed to flee our country with the help of his son David, also a magician and known as Fu Manchu. His other son Donald joined the resistance in the Netherlands, was betrayed and survived ten concentration camps.

The Dutch Ange Wieberdink was in her early twenties when she organized a holiday and work camp for Northern Irish youth in the mid-1970s. An idea born from idealism. Northern Ireland was then ravaged by The Troubles, a civil war between Catholics and Protestants with roots in prevailing class inequality. To help them catch their breath from the constant threat, and in the hope of understanding each other, Ange brought Northern Irish teenagers together in the woods near Zeist. Fifty years later, she revisits 'her Northern Irish teenagers' from back then. We meet Derek and Bernadette, among others, one Protestant, the other Catholic.

In the night of February 24 to 25, 2000, 37 paintings by fine painter Henk Helmantel were stolen from his private museum in Westeremden, North Groningen. The recently appointed Groningen police chief Bernard Welten wants to solve the art theft at all costs. An elite team of police officers and detectives is formed. They call themselves The Hedgehog Team, named after one of the stolen works. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game with many phone calls, ransom demands, threats, cryptic advertisements in newspapers and much more, ultimately leading to a successful conclusion of the case: all paintings are recovered.

Painted lips, eyelid corrections, Brazilian Butt Lifts; the number of cosmetic procedures is increasing significantly every year. The clinics are springing up like mushrooms and they all play on our insecurities about our appearance. But these are not completely new. Andere Tijden delves into the history of cosmetic surgery, which produces special images and stories. As early as the 1930s, the Dutch doctor and psychiatrist Annie Mulder van de Graaf offered facelifts in her private clinic to 'help ladies get rid of their inferiority complex'. The taboo on the treatments is still very great, but that will change.

Reconstruction of the tense atmosphere in the country after the police raid on the Hofstad group on November 10, 2004. The then mayor Deetman, a member of the arrest team, key players from the police and the judiciary, the AIVD and residents of the Laakkwartier caused the nerve-wracking raid and the errors of judgment that have been made.

In 1963, a group of fifty Palestinians arrived in Vlaardingen to work temporarily in a margarine factory. But when the Six-Day War broke out in 1967 and Israel occupied the West Bank, they could no longer return home. Fifty years later, their children, who grew up in Vlaardingen, look back on the history of the Palestinians in the Netherlands, at a life between hope and fear with a constant war in the country where their parents come from.

Almost fifty years after her death, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is in the spotlight. Her special life is the reason for, among other things, a musical, a drama series and an exhibition in the Resistance Museum. Baker was way ahead of her time in thinking and acting. Raised in poverty in America, she broke through as an artist in France in the 1920s. But perhaps her heroic exploits as a spy in World War II and her ongoing fight against racism are what make the biggest impression. Other Times travels to the castle of Milandes, where Josephine Baker created her own world, with her twelve adopted 'rainbow children'.