It turns out that 82 Jews were murdered in the camp. One of them was a baby. This is stated in the book The forgotten story of the Jewish prisoners of Camp Amersfoort by researcher Amanda Kluveld (Maastricht University). In daily newspaper Fidelity she says: “What happened to the Jews in Camp Amersfoort does not fit into the relatively clean image that there is of the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands. Pencils were stuck in their eyes, beards were set on fire, Jews were thrown into cesspools, beaten to death. “
Camp Amersfoort was indeed a Holocaust camp: what does this mean for the museum?
