WOII | AMERSFOORT | Rond Kamp Amersfoort | Concentration Camp Amersfoort @ Amersfoort (2021)

Reportage gemaakt in de nabijheid van het voormalige Kamp Amersfoort. Deze maand werd het ondergrondse museum bij/van het kamp geopend. Amersfoort concentration camp (Dutch: Kamp Amersfoort, German: Durchgangslager Amersfoort) was a Nazi concentration camp near the city of Amersfoort, the Netherlands. The official name was "Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort", P.D.A. or Amersfoort Police Transit Camp. 37,000 prisoners were held there between 1941 to 1945.
The fluctuating prisoner population consisted of an eclectic group of people from all over the Netherlands: Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, prisoners of war from the Soviet Union, members of the resistance, clergy, black marketeers, clandestine butchers, and smugglers.
Between 1941 and 1943, 8,800 people were imprisoned in the camp, of whom 2,200 were deported to Germany. During the period 1943-1945, 26,500 people were imprisoned, of whom 18,000 were sent east to places such as Buchenwald and Natzweiler concentration camps. Almost 700 people died here.

[@jennypennyridesagain5599]

My great uncle was prisoner 5937, he died this year at age 98. Thank you for the tour as I have not been able to make it back to Holland since Covid has happened.

[@GersonHeidinga]

You are most welcome. May your great uncle rest in peace ❤️

[@julia197]

Mijn arme grootvader

[@GersonHeidinga]

Moge hij rusten in vrede ❤️