BERLIN (AP) – The last known Dutch survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Neuengamme and the Cap Arcona maritime disaster, Wim Alosery, has died.
A spokeswoman for the Neuengamme memorial center says Alosery died peacefully in his sleep Wednesday.
Iris Groschek said Friday that the 94-year-old had traveled to Hamburg to attend an event commemorating the 73rd anniversary of the camp’s liberation.
FILE – In this May 3, 2015 file photo Wim Alosery, the last survivor of the sunken NS prison ship Cap Arcona, leans on a rail of a ship at the sight of the sinking of the Cap Arcona which was ladden with forced labourers when it was struck by the Royal Airforce on board of a ship on the Baltic Sea near Neustadt, Germany. (Markus Scholz//dpa via AP)
Alosery, a Jehovah’s Witness, arrived in Neuengamme from the Amersfoort camp near Amsterdam in 1944.
In the final days of the war he and about 6,600 other concentration camp inmates were moved onto the prison ship Cap Arcona, off Luebeck. Believing fleeing Nazis were on board, British planes attacked the ship and two others. Only 450 people survived.
A book about Alosery’s life was published in the Netherlands last month.
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