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[email protected] Sponsor: Stichting Werkgroep Herkenning www.werkgroepherkenning.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 22, Spring 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION In this issue you will find information about three conferences: in May in Germany, in September in England, and in November in the USA. At present the name of Vught evokes in people the image of a beautiful village with delightful residences and a famous institution for language courses in one of the southern provinces of the Netherlands. In the first decades after the war, however, Vught had a sinister reputation because of the German concentrationcamp in which Jews, Sinti and Roma, Jehova’s witnesses and especially many resistance fighters were imprisoned. A triptych of articles in this bulletin deals with ‘Vught’: - The daughter of one of the women held in captivity in camp Vught, Anneruth Wibaut, shares her memories with us. - Tanja van Koppenhagen was born in Vught when it was in use as an internment camp for collaborators from September 1944 till January 1952. She tells us about her experiences. -After the collaborators left the camp, Vught became one of the places where 13 000 Moluccan people were housed, coming to the Netherlands in 1951. Jossie, one of my school-mates, was one of them. Marina Gulina and Julia Borossa did research on the after-effects of the blockade of Leningrad on the lives of the children who survived the siege and compared them with those of the evacuation on children who left the town.