Nationaal Monument Oranjehotel

The Nationaal Monument Oranjehotel stands as a stark, red-brick structure once known as the Scheveningen prison. During the Second World War, the German occupiers detained more than twenty-five thousand people here, including resistance fighters, Jews, and Jehovah's Witnesses. The prisoners gave the site its name, the Oranjehotel, as an act of defiance and a tribute to the members of the resistance locked within. A verse often scribbled on the prison walls during those years declared that the building held no riffraff, but rather, the glory of Holland.