Kamp Amersfoort

Kamp Amersfoort
Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort
Concentration camp
The camp watchtower
Kamp Amersfoort is located in Netherlands
Kamp Amersfoort
Location of the camp in the Netherlands
Coordinates52°7′57″N 5°21′56″E / 52.13250°N 5.36556°E / 52.13250; 5.36556
Other namesPolizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort
LocationLeusden near Amersfoort, province of Utrecht, the Netherlands
Operated bySS
Operational18 August 1941 – 18 April 1945 (1941-08-18 – 1945-04-18)
Number of inmates37,000
Killed650
Liberated bytransferred to Red Cross
Websitewww.kampamersfoort.nl

Kamp Amersfoort (Dutch: Kamp Amersfoort, German: Durchgangslager Amersfoort) was a Nazi concentration camp near the city of Amersfoort, the Netherlands. The official name was "Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort", P.D.A. or Amersfoort Police Transit Camp. 37,000 prisoners were held there between 1941 and 1945. The camp was situated in the northern part of the municipality of Leusden, on the municipal boundary between Leusden and Amersfoort in the central Netherlands.


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