Roger Vyvey was arrested as a resistance fighter on 14 april 1944 in Nieuwpoort (Belgium) and was deported to the concentration camp Neuengamme where he arrived on the 2nd September 1944. He received the camp number 44444.
After a few days he was transported to Bremen-Blumenthal where he stayed almost the whole period. In april 1945, the Nazis evacuated the satellite camps in Bremen and he suffered the death marches back to the main camp. From the main camp he was brought to Lübeck from where he was embarked on the Cap Arcona. At a given moment he was moved to the Athen.
He survived the bombing and was liberated in Neustadt in Holstein on May 3, 1945. He returned home to Nieuwpoort on May 24, 1945 as survivor of a serious hell.
