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The Razzia of '44 Sung

Sun, 8 Nov 2026 · 15:00 — 17:30
More dates: 10 Nov

Kantine Walhalla, Rotterdam

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The Razzia of '44 Sung — Kantine Walhalla, Rotterdam
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The music theatre production "The Rotterdam Razzia of '44 Sung" returns to Kantine Walhalla by popular demand. The show tells stories and songs about the forced labourers who were deported from Rotterdam and Schiedam during the razzia of 10 and 11 November 1944.

Master storyteller Roland Vonk and actress Daisy Hagendoorn bring the history to life. Most of the songs were likely last heard in a German barracks or at a reunion shortly after the war. For some texts, no original music survived; new arrangements were composed by trio De Flamingo's: Peter de Koning (double bass), Ted Koninkx (guitar) and Pieter Ubbels (saxophone), joined by Erik de Reus on piano, who also arranged the pieces.

During the razzia, around 52,000 young men were arrested and put to work in Germany. Nearly five hundred Rotterdam residents did not survive. Those who returned home fell silent - and years later it became clear how traumatised these men had become. The songs and jokes they had made in Germany to keep their spirits up no longer fit in a city that had endured the Hunger Winter and had to begin reconstruction. After the bombing of Rotterdam, the razzia is considered the second most significant event in the city's recent history.

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Line-up

  • Daisy Hagendoorn
  • Peter de Koning
  • Ted Koninkx
  • Pieter Ubbels
  • Erik de Reus