In January 2025, the Dutch Central Archive for Special Jurisdiction 450.000 released documents containing the actions of Dutch citizens who collaborated with nazi Germany. After 80 years of silence, this re-entry into the public eye has sparked (inter)national debate, and provoked an entire generation of young Dutch people to decide if they want to know who they are related to.
In A Court of Paper, Cecilia and Matthew dive into the archives and their family histories, containing stories of the collaboration, resistance and oppression, in an attempt to understand the past and make its lessons tangible in the present. This in-process sharing of our work includes multimedia elements, live translation from Dutch and German into English and active audience participation.
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