Benedictus Hamburger

Benedictus Hamburger was a son of Isaäc Hamburger and Jet van Bingen.
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Benedictus Hamburger was given a book with the story of Esther in 1912 by the Israelite Religious school in Amsterdam. In 1915 he came with his parents and sisters to Winterswijk.
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In addition, a Jokos file (number 8186) on this person is at the Amsterdam…

"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…