Municipal Death Repository - Amsterdam, Netherlands
N 52° 22.216 E 004° 54.002
31U E 629353 N 5803920
This marker about the Municipal Death Repository is located on the Zuiderkerk, a church, in Amsterlands, Netherlands.
Waymark Code: WMM673
Location: Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 07/28/2014
Views: 8
The marker reads:
Van februari tot augustus 1945 was deze kerk de Gemeentelijke Doodenbewaarplaats.
Door ontbering, honger en duits geweld stierven te Amsterdam in het laatste oorlogsjaar meer mensen dan begraven konden worden.
Hier was hun tijdelijke rustplaats.
[English translation - modified from Google Translate:]
From February to August 1945 this church was the Municipal Death Repository.
By deprivation, hunger and German violence more people died at Amsterdam in the last year of the war than could be buried.
Here was their temporary resting place.
Group that erected the marker: Unknown
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Zuiderkerkhof 72
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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