Kamp Westerbork

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Kamp Westerbork (Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Westerbork) beliggende ved Hooghalen er blevet kendt som et gennemgangslejr. Herfra blev 107.000 jøder samt roma og sinti deporteret til tyske koncentrationslejre. Kun 5.000 af dem overlevede krigen, de fleste i Theresienstadt og Bergen-Belsen eller ved befrielse i Westerbork selv.
Blandt ofrene var kendte navne. Etty Hillesum sad fast i Westerbork, før hun blev deporteret, og Anne Frank og hendes familie blev sat på et af de sidste transporttog fra Kamp Westerbork til Auschwitz. Også Sinti-pigen Settela Steinbach blev deporteret via Westerbork. Journalisten for Algemeen Handelsblad, Philip Mechanicus, blev den 7. november 1942 sendt til Westerbork og den 8. marts 1944 sat på transport til Bergen-Belsen; den 9. oktober 1944 blev han med en straftransport af 120 personer sendt til Auschwitz-Birkenau, hvor han blev skudt tre dage senere.

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