Helga Deen is essentially the Tilburg version of Anne Frank. There’s a little park in the centre of town named after this Jewish girl who kept a diary during her incarceration in an SS-concentration camp (National Monument Camp Vught). There are only a few bushes, some shrubbery, nine small chairs and several Stars of David in the paving stones, but this 16m2 park wasn't created at random. The little park was named after the 18-year-old Helga who later died in the Sobibór concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Whoever comes here can have a moment of silence to contemplate a dark chapter in Dutch history.
