Samson de Vries

Samson de Vries, a son of David de Vries and Theodora Haringman, was born on 3 October 1911 in Amsterdam and married there on 19 August 1936 Sara Wagenhuis, the middle of the three daughters of Maria Augurk and Isaac Wagenhuis. She was born in Amsterdam on 30 May 1914 and worked as a tailors seamstress and later as an ironer. The couple had one son, Isaac, who was born on 5 August 1937.

After Sams…

The only German-style concentration camp that was set up in our country was concentration camp Vught, which was opened in January 1943. The camp had a number of “Aussenkommando’s“ (satellite camps) including Moerdijk. This command was located in the old barracks of the anti-aircraft artillery near the harbour. Fifty S.S. men were appointed as guards and the first prisoners arrived on 26 March 1943…