During the German occupation, there were five concentration camps in the Netherlands: Schoorl, Amersfoort, Ommen, Vught and Westerbork, the gateway to Auschwitz. The former camps of Amersfoort, Vught and Westerbork are now national memorial centers. This is not an obvious thing, but the result of a laborious but dynamic and conflict-ridden process between various stakeholders. From a cultural-historical perspective, Roel Hijink examines the way in which public remembrance of the German concentration camps in the Netherlands has taken shape in their historical location. He describes the forms used for this purpose in successive periods and analyzes what exactly people wanted to remember with and express in those forms. Hijink shows that the signs of remembrance ¿ the monuments, the former camp sites and the museums of remembrance ¿ arose in response to national myths, prevailing political ideals and the needs of the time in which they were manufactured.