Vught Concentration Camp Model, Kamp Vught
The model of the Camp is laid out in concrete on the ground. The Camp, also known as Konzentrationslager Herzogenbosch, is now a National Memorial and was opened by Queen Beatrix on 18 April 1990. The whole area of the Camp which operated in 1943/44 stretched back as far as the nearby villages. There are now recreated wash rooms and toilets, an Information Centre, sleeping quarters and the crematorium with original ovens. Vught was known as the Gateway to Hell and was not in itself an extermination camp but a transit facility for the camps in Germany and Poland where prisoners were gassed. Himmler ordered that all prisoners who died in the camp should be cremated.The most moving Memorial in the area is that for The Children. Their names, 1, 269 in all, are inscribed on bronze tablets with their ages and 1, 800 others were transported from here to the concentration camps
