Plan Frederiks

Plan-Frederiks was a plan, made up by the Dutch politicians K.J. Frederiks and J. van Dam, which was meant to protect Jewish people in name of the German, during the Second World War.

The occupier didn't want the Jews to hide away. Therefore, the German gave some Jews that had been important to Germany, by fighting in the Great War or by being a famous painter (in case of Jo Spier) a place in a special reservation camps in The Netherlands. Frederiks and Van Dam wanted other Jews to show up for this plan and try to get a place in one of these camps, instead of hiding away. It would be easy to catch these people.

The reservation camps that were used for this plan were Villa Bouchina, De Schaffelaar and De Biezen. They all opened in February 1943 and closed in April of the same year. In all, about 700 people were concentrated in these camps. After being in the reservation camps, they were transported to Theresienstadt, where a lot of them died.