Chronology of World War II
Saturday, March 27
Resistance Movement Attack in Amsterdam
March 27, 1943. Chaos following an attack by the resistance movement on the city population register at the Plantage Kerklaan in Amsterdam. The purpose of the attack was to sabotage the impending deportation of Amsterdam's Jews to transit camp Westerbork and death camps in Germany and Poland. (ANP Historisch Archief Community)