Westerbork Transit Camp
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Nazi transit camp for Jews in the occupied Netherlands
Key facts
- Other names
- Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Westerbork, Judendurchgangslager Westerbork
- Location
- Westerbork , Netherlands
- Operated by
- SS
- Original use
- Refugee camp
- Operational
- 1939 – 1940, (as a refugee camp), 1 July 1942 –, 12 April 1945, (as a transit camp)
- Inmates
- Jews
- Number of inmates
- 97,776 deported, mostly to Auschwitz and Sobibór 876 liberated
- Liberated by
- Canadian 2nd Infantry Division
- Notable inmates
- Anne Frank , Margot Frank , Dora Gerson , Etty Hillesum , Philip Slier , Edith Stein , Selma Wijnberg-Engel , Max Ehrlich , Wilhelm Mautner , Ellen Burka , Walter Süskind , Settela Steinbach , Maurice Frankenhuis , Kurt Gerron
- Notable books
- The Night of the Girondins
- Website
- kampwesterbork .nl /en /
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- war memorial
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Midden-Drenthe
- Owned by
- Staatsbosbeheer
- Genre
- public art
- Location
- Hooghalen
- Official website
- www.westerbork.nl
- Image
- Westerbork-monument2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kamp Westerbork
- topic's main category
- Category:Westerbork transit camp
- catalog code
- camps/2019
- exact match
- data.niod.nl/WO2_Thesaurus/kampen/4869
- inception
- 1942-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1945-00-00
- P8168
- Johi
- native label
- Westerbork
- commemorates
- Dutch resistance during World War II
- date of official opening
- 1942-07-01
- street address
- Oosthalen 8, 9414 TG, Hooghalen (Midden-Drenthe), Drenthe, Nederland
- heritage designation
- European Heritage Label
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Encyclopedic overview
Camp Westerbork (Dutch: Kamp Westerbork, German: Durchgangslager Westerbork, Drents: Börker Kamp; Kamp Westerbörk), also known as Westerbork transit camp, was a Nazi transit camp in the province of Drenthe in the Northeastern Netherlands, during World War II. It was located in the municipality of Westerbork, current-day Midden-Drenthe. Camp Westerbork was used as a staging location for sending Jews, Sinti and Roma to concentration camps elsewhere.
Purpose of Camp Westerbork
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Westerbork Transit Camp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.