Tag: CAMP AMERSFOORT
Camp Amersfoort receives significantly more visitors
The number of visitors to the memorial center has increased rapidly in recent years. In 2022, the museum still had 17,000 visitors. About a third of last year’s visitors were…
Camp Amersfoort looking for a young audience: ‘Don’t just take in the world through a screen’
The museum asked students from Utrecht University of Applied Sciences in Amersfoort to think about how the open day could attract more visitors aged 18 to 35. “We want to…
‘They defeated a strong farmer in just a few weeks’, WWII prisoner transport commemorated
It is not known what Wouter Verhoef had to do in Camp Amersfoort and in Neuengamme. The family only knows that he died on Christmas 1944, three months after his…
80 years after the largest prisoner transport: ‘He changed from a resistance fighter into a number’
“The only thing we have left of him is this photo from the day before he was arrested.” Henri Schouten (72) from Achterveld is holding an old photo of his…
Bus full of Leusden residents searches for answers in Neuengamme: ‘We don’t really know what it was like inside’
A group of seventy people will join the trip from May 1 to 3. Not only relatives will attend, but also council members, the mayor and members of the Historical…
Museum responds to new research at Camp Amersfoort: ‘This is particularly shocking’
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…
Camp Amersfoort was indeed a Holocaust camp: what does this mean for the museum?
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…
Camp Amersfoort played a greater role in the persecution of Jews than thought
“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.…
Research points to new location for mass execution Camp Amersfoort ‘The right place is important for the relatives’
Amersfoort – Researchers at Kamp Amersfoort have discovered that the mass grave of 77 Soviet soldiers who were executed in World War II was in a completely different place than…
Research points to new location for mass execution World War II: near hole 9 of Leusdense golf club
Amersfoort – Researchers at Kamp Amersfoort have discovered that the mass grave of 77 Soviet soldiers who were executed in World War II was in a completely different place than…