This week, two people who were both imprisoned in Camp Vught during the Second World War died at an advanced age. The National Monument Camp Vught announced this on Friday.
It concerns Elly Vleeschhouwer-Blocq, one of the first prisoners of camp Vught. She died on Tuesday at the age of 101. The camp also announced on Friday that Marie Verbraeken-Blommaart, who was imprisoned as a resistance fighter in Vught in 1943, died this week at the age of 105. She was in the Zeeland resistance as a courier.
Vleeschhouwer-Blocq grew up with her four brothers and two sisters in a Jewish family in Amsterdam, writes Kamp Vught. In 1942 she married Wim, who was also Jewish, in the middle of the Second World War. When Elly had to wear a star, she initially refused: “I just didn’t want to be singled out.” She was unable to escape persecution.
Elly survived eight concentration camps, in her own words ‘with a lot of luck’. Camp Vught, where she would stay from early 1943 to June 1944, was the first.
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