Westerbork Transit Camp

Also known as Durchgangslager Westerbork, Kamp Westerbork, Camp Westerbork

Nazi transit camp for Jews in the occupied Netherlands

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It sits within the topics 1939 establishments in the Netherlands, 20th-century architecture in the Netherlands and Buildings and structures in Drenthe.

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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 /

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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

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