Westerbork (Concentration camp)
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
וסטרבורק (מחנה ריכוז)
Name (Latin)
Westerbork (Concentration camp)
Other forms of name
Transit Camp Westerbork
Kamp Westerbork
Nazi Transit Camp Westerbork
KZ Westerbork
Coordinates
6.606944444 6.606944444 52.91666667 52.91666667 (gooearth )
Field of activity
Nazi concentration camps
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Das nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, 1990:p. 285 (Westerbork; transit camp to the Eastern concentration camps)
- Verzeichnis der Haftstatten unter den Reichsfuhrer-SS, 1979:p. 645 (Westerbork; police detention camp; opened June 1, 1942; liberated Apr. 12, 1945)
- LC database, Apr. 2, 1997(hdg.: Westerbork (Netherlands : Concentration camp); usage: Westerbork, Transit Camp Westerbork, Kamp Westerbork; Nazi Transit Camp Westerbork)
- NUCMC data from Holocaust Center of Northern Calif. for Jakobowitz family papers, 1943-1945(collection contains materials from KZ Westerbork)
- יד ושם; קובץ מחקרים נב,1 (תשפד):ע' 71 (וֶסטֶרבּוֹרְק.)
- מחנה המעבר המשטרתי ליהודים וֶסְטֶרְבּוֹרְק היה אחד משני מחנות המעבר שהקימו הנאצים בהולנד לשם שילוח יהודי הולנד למחנות הריכוז וההשמדה במזרח. המחנה ממוקם בצמוד לכפר הזעיר וסטרבורק בחבל דְרֶנְתֶה, הקרוב לגבול גרמניה-הולנד בחלקו הצפוני. ( (ויקיפדיה, נצפה 13 במרץ 2025) )
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Westerbork-monument2
Blacknight, Public domain
File:Hut-AnneFrank-Westerbork.jpg
Blacknight, Public domain
File:Memorial stones at Camp Westerbork.jpg
James Postema, CC BY 4.0
File:Modell Westerbork.jpg
Aug, CC BY 3.0
File:Monument appelplaats Kamp Westerbork2.jpg
Gouwenaar, Public domain
File:Westerbork, a school in the camp.jpg
Rudolf Breslauer, Public domain
File:Westerbork-monument2.jpg
Blacknight, Public domain
File:WesterborkLageplan.jpg
Unknown author; "gez[eichnet] (signed by) [Stefan] Schlesinger", Public domain
File:Westerbork camp 1940-1945.jpg
UK Army, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
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.
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