 As allied forces approached Herzogenbusch, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners were transferred to concentration camps further east, with women inmates being transferred to Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, and the men to Sachsenhausen concentration camp by 4–5 September 1944.On 26 October 1944, Scottish troops of the 7th Black Watch and Canadian troops of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division's 96th Battery, 5th Anti-tank Regiment liberated the camp after fighting a rear guard of SS guards left to defend the nearly evacuated camp.There were around 500-600 prisoners left alive, who were due to be executed that afternoon, whose lives were saved by the arrival of the liberating forces.