Huis van Bewaring II (Detention Centre II) - Havenstraat 6 (Amstelveenseweg)
The Amstelveenseweg Detention Centre was located at Havenstraat 6 in Amsterdam.
This prison was renamed a Detention Centre before 1940, because the Huis van Bewaring I (Weteringschans) at the Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen had been struggling with a shortage of capacity for years.[1]
After the arrest of the people in the Secret Annex, helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler were transferred to Huis van Bewaring II. Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft was in this Huis van Bewaring when she was picked up on 17 April 1945 to be executed in the dunes near Bloemendaal.
Footnotes
- ^ Bianca Stigter, Atlas van een bezette stad: Amsterdam 1940-1945, Amsterdam: Atlas Contact, 2019, p. 373-374. Also see: Wikipedia: Huis van Bewaring II (Amstelveenseweg).