Willem & Frieda - Pink Resistance

Few people know them: queer resistance heroes Willem Arondéus and Frieda Belinfante. Yet they were responsible for the famous attack on the Dutch population register in Amsterdam on March 27th 1943. As part of the group of artists around Gerrit van der Veen, Willem and Frieda came up with an ingenious plan to deliver a serious blow to the German occupiers. Yet after the war, the two never received the recognition they deserved, something that did happen to Gerrit van der Veen. In the respectable Netherlands after the war, there was no place for homosexuals war-heroes.

This new musical finally tells the story of two extraordinary people: he a painter/writer in search of himself, she the world’s very first female conductor. Both found a surprising life purpose in wartime.

WILLEM & FRIEDA - PINK RESISTANCE is a musical for everyone: a compelling, humorous and moving story about freedom, friendship, bravoury and resistance.

It will be performed in July 2025 at the DeLaMar Theater in Amsterdam.