Tag: Kamp
Kamp Amersfoort is also asking for financial support: ‘It has been a problem for years’
The signatories of the letter are the directors of the former concentration camps in Amersfoort, Vught, the National Monument Oranjehotel and the Indian Remembrance Center in The Hague. According to…
No Soesterberg residential area, but nature: “Kamp van Zeist becomes an oasis for people and animals”
Camp of Zeist Around 1818, the army of the still very young Kingdom of the Netherlands came to the heath near Zeist to hold large-scale exercises there. In addition to…
Transformation of Kamp van Zeist into a nature reserve has begun
Demolition and remediation work on the former military site Kamp van Zeist on the outskirts of Soesterberg has started. The province of Utrecht expects the work to last until the…
His grandfather was imprisoned there and now Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte is the voice of the renovated museum Kamp Amersfoort
The exhibition in Camp Amersfoort has changed dramatically. To make the collection more inclusive, the museum has now been organized based on ten groups of prisoners who were locked up…
Still in tears 80 years after the war, Theo (98) was the last eyewitness of captured Soviet soldiers in Kamp Amersfoort
“The war in Ukraine brings another importance to this place. That is to make it clear what exactly the Soviet Union was, namely that they were Allies. That those soldiers…
Part Kamp van Zeist becomes nature reserve
Kamp van Zeist has been used as a military site since the early nineteenth century. During the First World War, Belgian soldiers who had deserted were imprisoned there. After the…
Delay in construction of AZC Kamp van Zeist due to shortage of building materials: ‘Hope for a mild winter’
The people who now sleep in the pavilions on the Kamp van Zeist site will have to spend the winter there, the COA says. “Let’s hope for a mild winter.…
200 refugees move from Holland Casino to Kamp Zeist
In the council letter, the municipality makes a distinction between four types of reception. The first is the crisis shelter, which is about one to thirty days. This concerns care…
Watch the commemoration in Kamp Amersfoort live here
A total of 47,000 people were imprisoned in the camp during the Second World War, most of them for acts of resistance against the German occupier. Hunger, forced labor and…
Van Rossem tells about the doctors’ resistance in Kamp Amersfoort
Jan Roorda, a prominent general practitioner from Haarlem, was the founder of Medisch Cerzet. He wrote down his experiences in Kamp Amersfoort. From his diary: “I looked curiously back at…