Westerbork

Westerbork

▪ transit camp, The Netherlands
      small Jewish transit camp in World War II, located near the village of Westerbork in the rural northeastern Netherlands. The Dutch government originally set up the camp in 1939 to accommodate Jewish refugees from Nazi (Nazi Party) Germany, but after the Germans conquered The Netherlands in July 1940, Westerbork functioned as a transit camp where Jewish inmates performed forced labour before shipment east to other concentration camps (concentration camp) or extermination camps (extermination camp). With transportation arranged by Adolf Eichmann (Eichmann, Adolf)'s office, the Nazis transferred about 100,000 Jews from Westerbork to Auschwitz beginning on July 15, 1942. Trains left every Tuesday, and the camp went into a panic Monday evenings. The Nazis imprisoned Anne Frank (Frank, Anne) and her family at Westerbork between their arrest in August 1944 and their transfer to Auschwitz the following month.

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