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    Camp Westerbork (Dutch: Kamp Westerbork, German: Durchgangslager Westerbork, Drents: Börker Kamp; Kamp Westerbörk), also known as Westerbork transit camp...
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    deport the group of around 650 Jews from Camp Barneveld to Westerbork transit camp and then on to concentration camp Theresienstadt in Bohemia, almost all...
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    Anne Frank (category Westerbork transit camp survivors)
    Weteringschans [nl]. Two days later they were transported to the Westerbork transit camp, through which more than 100,000 Jews, mostly Dutch and German...
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    Rudolf Breslauer (category German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
    deported to Westerbork transit camp. Camp commander Albert Konrad Gemmeker [de] ordered Breslauer to make photographs and films of life in Westerbork. Breslauer...
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    World War II, the Westerbork transit camp was located near the village. The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope and the Camp Westerbork Museum are now situated...
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    Kurt Schlesinger (category Westerbork transit camp)
    3 August 1963) was a German Jewish administrative director of Westerbork transit camp during World War II. Kurt Schlesinger lived in his hometown Schmalkalden...
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  • Eddy de Wind (category Westerbork transit camp survivors)
    doctor who, after passing his medical exam, voluntarily went to the Westerbork transit camp for Jews to assist the deportees there. After the German invasion...
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    Johnny & Jones (category Westerbork transit camp survivors)
    1943 they and their wives were arrested and sent to the Westerbork transit camp. In the camp they performed once under the name Jonny und Jones since...
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    Etty Hillesum (category Westerbork transit camp survivors)
    transferring to a department of "Social Welfare for People in Transit" at Westerbork transit camp. She worked there for a month, but returned in June 1943...
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  • diarist and Holocaust victim; kept a diary in Amsterdam and in the Westerbork transit camp David Kahane Zelig Kalmanovich Victor Klemperer Věra Kohnová– Czech...
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  • Westerbork may refer to: Westerbork (village), a village in the Netherlands Westerbork transit camp, a Nazi transit camp near Westerbork Westerbork Synthesis...
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  • Irene H. Butter (category Westerbork transit camp survivors)
    dramatic journey from Berlin to the United States via the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen camps in her youth. Thanks to a prisoner exchange arranged by her...
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  • Jews of Amsterdam had to report prior to their deportation to the Westerbork transit camp. In that position he could manipulate the personal data of children...
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  • fellow prisoners of Anne Frank in the Westerbork transit camp, and the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, gave interviews about Anne's last...
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    of the former World War II Nazi detention and transit camp Westerbork, north of the village of Westerbork, Midden-Drenthe, in the northeastern Netherlands...
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  • headquarters, were deported to the Westerbork transit camp and from there, to various labour and concentration camps. Dettmann was also in charge of the...
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    housed in repurposed WWII concentration camps in the Netherlands, including the former Westerbork transit camp. Where they were isolated from Dutch society...
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    Jules Schelvis (category Sobibor extermination camp survivors)
    1943. They were deported to Westerbork transit camp, where they spent six days before being sent to Sobibor extermination camp. They were among the 3,005...
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  • The Westerbork camp and information centre (Westerbork). 102,000 Stones Monument (Dutch: De 102.000 stenen) at the former Westerbork transit camp (Dutch:...
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  • Hannah Pick-Goslar (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
    the Westerbork transit camp, where her grandfather died in November 1943 of a heart attack. The family was taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in...
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  • (1902-1964), a war criminal, head of the Jewish Security Service in Westerbork transit camp Leon Schlesinger (1884–1949), American Looney Tunes producer Leonard...
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  • Mirjam Finkelstein (category Westerbork transit camp survivors)
    Nazis along with her mother and sisters to Westerbork transit camp and then to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She was one of the eye witnesses to the...
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    Margot Frank (category Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners)
    From here they were taken by train, on 8 August, to the Dutch Westerbork transit camp. As the Frank family had failed to respond to Margot's call-up...
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  • Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper (category Jewish concentration camp survivors)
    arrested, in the summer of 1944, and were transported to the Westerbork transit camp. In Westerbork, they were listed as "criminals" and had to work in the...
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  • Jaap Meijer (writer) (category Westerbork transit camp survivors)
    sent to Westerbork transit camp. On 15 February 1944, they were moved to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. When British troops neared the camp, they were...
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    Westerbork transit camp monument to Dutch Jews and other persecuted groups who passed through the camp as they were transported to Nazi death camps....
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  • Edith Frank (category German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
    hiding were transported to the Westerbork transit camp. From there, they were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on 3 September 1944, on the last...
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    Germans to construct railways to Westerbork transit camp and transport almost a hundred thousand Jews to extermination camps. The company's only wartime strike...
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    who had been in hiding were sent to the Westerbork transit camp and then to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Soon after, Margot and Anne Frank were sent...
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    were arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Westerbork transit camp, and from there to extermination camps. Out of the 24 children, only two boys and two...
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