The former Vught concentration camp has been preserved as a National Monument.
Near the Belgian border, in North Brabant of the Netherlands, very close to Den Bosch (-s-Hertogenbosch), part of the former concentration camp of Vught has been preserved as a National Monument so as not to Never forget.
Out of sight, little known, in the middle of the woods, the camp of Vught is the only concentration camp which deviates from the rule according to which these camps had to be built on the territory of the Reich. Its construction began in 1942.
The first prisoners came from the Amersfoort camp and were to participate in its construction. The inhabitants of the neighborhood initially thought that a barracks were going to be built, it was only when the barbed wire was laid that they realized that it was a concentration camp. Used from January 1943, 35,000 prisoners were held there and 749 prisoners died in the camp. Some of the prisoners were moved to other camps shortly before the Allies liberated him on October 26, 1944.
