Dieter Harro Eichenwald

After their marriage Willy Eichenwald and his wife lived in Remscheid, where they had two sons. On 3 October 1936 the family emigrated to the Netherlands. When the war broke out on 10 May 1940 the family lived in Tuindorp on the Regentesselaan 19 in Utrecht. On 21 April 1943 the family was deported to Westerbork, where they stayed until 14 September 1943 when they were deported to Auschwitz. The s…

"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…