Louis Willy van Dantzig

Louis Willy van Dantzig was the youngest of the three sons of Salomon van Dantzig and Hanna Cune. He was born on 12 February 1924 in Rotterdam and was an office clerk by profession. He lived at home with his mother at Beukelsdijk 128b in Rotterdam and was unmarried. His father however had been already admitted in 1929 to the psychiatric institution “Oud Rosenburg” in Loosduinen

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Louis Willy van Dantzig (12-2-1924) werd 17-11-1941 opgenomen in het Apeldoornsche Bosch met een rechterlijke machtiging voor de verpleging van de kantonrechter in Rotterdam. Op 21-5-1942 wordt deze machtiging verlengd met een jaar door de Arrondissementsrechtbank te Zutphen op basis van een diagnose van Nico Speijer, arts in het Apeldoornsche Bosch, dat verpleging noodzakelijk was. Louis is waars…

"Arbeitslager Oud Leusden” was a labor camp near Camp Amersfoort. The official name of Camp Amersfoort was” Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort”, abbreviated PDA.

From 18 August 1941, the PDA was in use until the spring of 1943, when it was closed for a short time to be renovated and expanded and more and more prisoners were sent to Amersfoort. They all had to be put to work. Companies in the…

The person who is mentioned on this page, belonged to a group of approximately 70 men who were “lent” from the Vught concentration camp to the PDA, the Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort, on 20 May 1943. They were housed and put to work in the Labor camp “Oud Leusden”, to dig a shooting range for tanks at the Infantry Barracks on the corner of Van Campenstraat in Amersfoort. Because of their…