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Black Book

In 1944, History of the Jews in the Netherlands singer Rachel Stein is hiding from the Nazi regime in the German occupation of the Netherlands. When the farmhouse where she had been hiding is accidentally destroyed in an Allied bombing, she goes to see a lawyer named Smaal, who has been helping her family. He organizes for her to escape to the liberated southern part of the country. Aided by a man named Van Gein, Rachel is reunited with her family and boards a boat that is to take them and other refugees to the south. They are ambushed on the river by members of the German Schutzstaffel, who kill them and rob the bodies of valuables. Rachel alone survives, but does not manage to escape from occupied territory.

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