“What happened to the Jews in Camp Amersfoort does not fit into the relatively clean image that exists of the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands,” researcher Kluveld told Trouw. “Pencils were stuck in their eyes, beards were set on fire, Jews were thrown into cesspools, beaten to death. These are practices that we might think: that happened elsewhere. But it did happen here. And it also had a purpose.”
Camp Amersfoort played a greater role in the persecution of Jews than thought
