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The Jewish Council

  • 2024
  • Ended
  • Drama · War & Politics
  • ~45m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 7.5/10

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.

Latest: Season 1 · 2024

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  1. E1. The Mayors of Jewish Amsterdam

    Mar 10, 2024 · 46m

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

  2. E2. The Yellow Stain

    Mar 17, 2024 · 51m

    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.

  3. E3. The Jewish Dictator

    Mar 24, 2024 · 45m

    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.

  4. E4. The Longest Night

    Mar 31, 2024 · 46m

    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.

  5. E5. The Little Shoah

    Apr 7, 2024 · 47m

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