Vught

Vught (Dutch pronunciation: [vʏxt] ⓘ) is a municipality and a town in the Province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands, and lies just south of the industrial and administrative centre of 's-Hertogenbosch.

Vught was the site of a transit/concentration camp (Herzogenbusch) built by Nazi Germany during its occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

For supporting another female prisoner, a group of 74 women were punished by being placed in a cell barely nine square meters and held there for over fourteen hours.

Dutch underground members Corrie and Betsie ten Boom were held at Vught in 1944, before being sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Vught was also a transition camp for many of the female laborers at the Agfa Kamerawerke in München-Giesing, where they built ignition and camera devices.

Poncke Princen, who would later become known for going over to the Indonesian guerrillas opposing Dutch rule, was imprisoned at Vught for his anti-Nazi activities.

Vught was liberated by the Canadians at the end of the war, but only after German guards killed several hundred prisoners held there, mainly by firing squad.

Vught is home to the Bredero barracks, which houses the Ministry of Defence's CBRN defense training center.

Watchtowers and barbed wire fences at Herzogenbusch concentration camp in Vught
Bezinningsruimte ("Room for reflection") at the Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught . It shows the names of all those who did not survive imprisonment at the Kamp Vught
Maurick Castle
Zionsburg, Vught
Isaac Gogel, c. 1812
Joost Prinsen, 1973
Indy de Vroome, 2014