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The raid on the Haagsche Veer police station in Rotterdam is one of the most impressive actions of the resistance in the Netherlands. On 24 October 1944, 43 prisoners were freed there.
Feri de Geus’ father, dressed as an SS officer, played a leading role in that life-threatening raid. Now, in that same Rotterdam police headquarters, dance artist Feri performs with his daughter Het Verzet in Mij (The Resistance in Me). It is a search for the motivations of a father who hardly ever spoke about his past in the resistance. But who transferred the emotions he could not express to his son, who became a dancer.

How can you free yourself from a war that was over before you were born? In a theatrical narrative, spoken and danced, Feri reconstructs the raid. He imagines how his father dealt with courage and fear, during and after the war. And he wonders how, as a descendant, he has been marked by the life story of a hero who did not want to be a hero. As an artist, he has worked in many cultures out of curiosity and, above all, out of a social commitment to cultures in which young artists do not get the opportunities they deserve.

The celebration of 80 years of liberation from the Second World War was the moment for him to return to his own motivation and that of his father during the resistance in WW2.