REMEMBERING THE WAR- Camp Vught

National Memorial Camp Vught

**“Queen Wilhelmina in Camp Vught, 1946”**
Collection National Monument Camp Vught

Towards the end of the war when Mies Boissevain and the others had been forced onto trains to Ravensbrück, Camp Vught, soon served as a prison -First, for captured Nazis and later for collaborators. In May of 1946, a year after the war had ended, Queen Wilhelmina visited the execution area in the woods near Camp Vught for a commemoration.

**“Execution Area”**
Picture credit: Jorinde

It was not until 1990 that the Memorial was established where Bob Celosse along with 328 other men was shot.

**“Monument for the Jewish Children in Vught”**
Picture credit: Jorinde

Some 1300 Jewish children left Vught to be transported by train to death camps. This memorial, barrack 1B, and the museum with its permanent and changing exhibitions are often visited by Dutch school children on fieldtrips.

See: https://www.nmkampvught.nl/ontdekken/het-verhaal/na-de-oorlog/

**“In the woods between**
**the museum and execution area”**
Picture credit: Miekie Koster

On a beautiful day in June of 2022, my sister Miekie and I visited Camp Vught, a mere 45 minutes from where we grew up. It was not until later when my sister played the song “Kamp Vught” written by local singer Gerard van Maasakkers that we both started crying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4mBNawElmk