Westerbork (Concentration camp)
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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)
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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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