Schoorl was one of the four Dutch concentration camps. The other three camps were Westerbork, Vught, and Amersfoort.
During the war most of the prisoners in Schoorl were French, British, and Belgians residing in the Netherlands. The more than 400 Jewish men that were arrested during the first major razzia in Amsterdam were taken to the Schoorl internment camp. In May 1941 they were transferred to Mauthausen via the Buchenwald concentration camp