Just a little way away in the woods around "Kamp Vught" is the Killing Place. The camp was not a extermination camp ( no gas chambers) but terrible cruelties were perpetrated there. Mostly those that were executed were shot at the Killing Place. The Butts (sand bank) in b&w photo from 1944, is approximately where the memorial wall (2004) is now. In front of that wall of names is the original trench in front of the Butts with wooden posts still in evidence.
Hi 51H I can't believe I missed this post. Thanks for the photos. Do you happen to have any more details about Kamp Vught - it's history etc? Is 2004 when you visted? Thanks
I didn't see this one either. Is this the same one 51H? http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Vught.html
Yes the same one. Do not know how they think Canadians liberated it. I assume it was because 51st HD were fighting under command of 1st Canadian army. Anyway my father was one of the first troops through the fence, they were chasing retreating Germans. I attend the silent ceremony at the killing place with Richard Massey every May 4th. He lays a wreath on behalf of the Camerons. Also attend the service at the Camp same day too. 4th Cdn Armd Div was over at Bergen-op-Zoom when 5th Camerons were fighting around the camp. The camp had been abandoned by the SS in september, but there were some inmates still there as they had nowhere else to go.
Noticed the mobile crematorium photo there also which conflicts with your information. Do you think they may have just added this photo in error?
No, there was a mobile one, as well as the brick built one, morbid, but I assume it was for when they had more bodies than the original design of the camp allowed for. I have some video of the camp, will put a couple of clips on Photobucket later.
