Marianne Barend, usually called Marie, was the tenth of the twelve children of Gerrit Polak and Heintje Visser. She was born on 6 January 1911 in Amsterdam and before she was married, she worked as a packer in cigar factory. On 10 February 1936 she married in Amsterdam the merchant Marcus van Spier…
The only German-style concentration camp that was set up in our country was concentration camp Vught, which was opened in January 1943. The camp had a number of “Aussenkommando’s“ (satellite camps) including Moerdijk. This command was located in the old barracks of the anti-aircraft artillery near t…