Camp Amersfoort

  • Kamp Amersfoort, officially known as Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort, was one of the main Nazi transit and penal camps in the Netherlands during the Second World War. Situated near the city of Amersfoort, it operated between 1941 and 1945 and held more than 35,000 prisoners. Although not as large or infamous as Westerbork or Vught, Kamp

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  • The Arbeidsinzet (labor deployment) is the term for the forced employment of the Netherlands. It is estimated that over half a million Dutch people worked in Germany (and German-occupied territories) during the war. Some went voluntarily, but most were forced against their will. The forced labor deployment of Dutch people in Germany happened in different

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  • Johannes Berens, a young Dutch policeman from Rotterdam, stands out as an emblem of quiet resistance and sacrifice during World War II. Born on January 27, 1924, Johannes was raised in the Netherlands, soon to face brutal occupation by Nazi Germany. His life, like many of his countrymen’s, would be profoundly impacted by the events

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  • A Murdered Family

    The photograph above is of Gezina de Leeuwe-de Jong with her four children. I presume the photo was taken by her husband and the father of the children, Louis de Leeuw. I reckon that’s why he is not in the picture. He was a son of Barend de Leeuwe and Sientje van Minden. He married

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