Kristof van Mierop

Grandson of Roger Vyvey (NG 44444) who was arrested as a member of the resistance and taken to Neuengamme in September 1944. He spent almost the whole period in Bremen-Blumenthal and survived the death marches and the disaster in the bay of Lübeck at the end of the war and was liberated on 3 May 1945 in Neustadt in Holstein. Kristof has been active in the Belgian Amicale Neuengamme since 2015 to ensure that this important history of his grandfather and everyone else is transferred to future generations. Since 2019, Kristof is the general secretary of the Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme

In search of my grandfather’s history, Roger Vyvey, 70 years on

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From the early age of 10 Kristof van Mierop got fascinated by WWII and the concentration camps because of his grandfather’s story. Not until 2015, when he was 39, he started to seriously probe into this history and he visited the places in Germany where his grandfather stayed during his captivity in the Neuengamme concentration … Read more

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