VUGHT-The Camp

**Marquette of the Barracks**
Picture credit: Jorinde

The Nazis referred to Camp Vught as a “Konzentrationslager”(pronounced /Con-sen-tra-tsyowns-laa-ghur/), which literally means “concentration camp.” About 32,000 “Undesirables” like Mies Boissevain, her husband, and son were put in this “re-education center.”

See: https://www.nmkampvught.nl/

**Dinner, Crafts, and Games in the Evenings**
Drawing by an unknown inmate of Camp Vught

While Camp Vught was the only SS-run camp in the Netherlands, initially it was not as bad as the infamous death camps the inmates were transported to later.

**Moats, guard towers, and ovens at Camp Vught**
Picture credit: Jorinde

When Mies Boissevain arrived at Camp Vught, she enjoyed seeing the rural environment. Soon she realized that Vught was perhaps not as bad as the rumored death camps, but the moat, guard towers with sharpshooters, and the ovens suggested worse was to come.