Westerbork Transit Camp
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Date
1942 - April 1944
Description
The train station in Westerbork. The smokestack of the new Ketelhuis (boiler house) is visible in the background. Westerbork was a transit camp for Jews and Roma who were being deported from the Netherlands during World War II to killing centers in Poland such as Auschwitz and Sobibor.
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Era
The Great Depression and WW II
Topic
Genocide, Global History and Geography, Jewish History, Transportation, World War II
Repository
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Identifer
01346
Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Trudi Gidan
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