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Labor camp Oud Leusden

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 Polizeiliche 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 striped prison clothing, they usually were called “Zebra Jews”.

The prisoners remained under the authority of Camp Vught and were sent back to Camp Vught after a few months, from where they were deported to “the East” in the second half of 1943 and sometimes early 1944, where most of them were killed or brought to their deaths. Only a few of this group survived the Holocaust.

See also the story “Zebra Jews” on this page.

Source: info among others from Mr. P. den Os Camp Amersfoort

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