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	Westerbork: portal of Auschwitz
		Leo Blumensohn, who survived Westerbork, Auschwitz, Gleiwitz, Blechhammer and the death marches, was the first refugee officially registered at the Town Hall of the village of Westerbork.
		Gemmeker arranged that Schol was discharged in January 1943 by the Dutch Department of Justice.
		According to Hans Colpa, in 1993 deputy director of the Westerbork Remembrance Center, it was the 8th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment (# 7 troop), also known as the Terrier platoon under the command of Lt.
	www.cympm.com /Westerbork.html (2388 words)

	Westerbork (camp) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Camp Westerbork was a World War II concentration camp in Hooghalen, ten kilometers north of Westerbork (village), in the current mun.
		In 1939 the Dutch government erected a refugee camp, Kamp Westerbork, in which people from German, but also coming from Austrian, Czechoslovakian and Polish, mostly of Jewish faith, were housed after they had tried in vain to escape Nazi terror in their homeland.
		In 1950-1970 the camp was renamed to Kamp Schattenberg and used to house refugees from the Maluku Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westerbork (351 words)

	Photo Archives
		Westerbork was a transit camp for Jews who were being deported from the Netherlands during World War II to killing centers in Poland.
		It was constructed on a tract of heath and marshland on the outskirts of the village of Westerbork in the province of Drenthe.
		Westerbork was liberated by the South Saskatchewan Regiment of the Canadian army on April 12, 1945.
	www.ushmm.org /uia-cgi/uia_doc/photos/95?hr=null (980 words)

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		The annex and camp Westerbork relate greatly in the restrictions placed on their residents, the living conditions they dealt with, and the final fates of those residents.
		In its first years Westerbork was a place where German Jews congregated at for support after fleeing their homeland in fear of the Nazi government in power there.
		Unlike Westerbork however, the residents of the annex were not allowed to leave their living space at any time.
	www.erin.utoronto.ca /~dwhite/101/26.htm (1663 words)

	Humor and Melody Theater of the Absurd at the Westerbork Transit Camp
		The Westerbork Theater was contained within the same transit camp—Westerbork— from where 100,000 Dutch Jews were deported to death camps in the East between 1942-1944.
		Catharina van-den-Berg was deported from Westerbork to Theresienstadt in June 1943.
		In the shadow of the gas chambers the cast of the Westerbork Theater was sentenced to the same fate as its brethren.
	www1.yadvashem.org /about_yad/magazine/data6/Westerbork.html (755 words)

	Westerbork
		The Westerbork camp was situated in the northeastern part of the Netherlands in the Dutch province of Drenthe, near the towns of Westerbork and Assen.
		From July 1942 until September 3, 1944, the Germans deported 97,776 Jews from Westerbork: 54,930 to Auschwitz in 68 transports, 34,313 to Sobibor in 19 transports, 4,771 to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 7 transports, and 3,762 to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 9 transports.
		The Westerbork camp had a "double life." While most inmates stayed in the camp for only short periods of time before being deported, there was also a "permanent" camp population of 2,000 people, mostly German Jews, Jewish council members, camp employees, and certain other categories of persons exempt from deportation.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005217 (352 words)

	Westerbork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Westerbork was the main transit camp used by the Germans during their occupation of Holland to send people--mostly Jews--to the death camps in Poland.
		The photographs are from Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork, Hooghalen, The Netherlands.
		Camp Westerbork was used immediately after the war to intern Dutch collaborators, then, from about 1950 until 1970, as a relocation camp for dislocated people returning from the former Dutch colonies.
	www.humboldt.edu /~rescuers/book/Bochove/bertlinks/wbork.html (249 words)

	B.U. Bridge: Boston University community's weekly newspaper
		"Westerbork was the craziest place on the planet," Polak told his audience at Hillel House.
		When you went to Westerbork, they took care of you." Quoting at length from diaries, letters, and interviews, and showing a series of slides and movie clips, Polak sewed together a description of life in this concentration/transit camp in northeast Holland, not far from the German border.
		Finally there was the ceremony, which drew gentiles who had helped Jews during the war, Jewish survivors, and Dutch schoolchildren who read their own poems and placed flowers on the railroad line that once led out of the camp.
	www.bu.edu /bridge/archive/2000/05-12/westerbork.html (1601 words)

	Westerbork Transit Camp (Holland)
		Westerbork became officially a "transit camp" (Durchgangslager Westerbork).
		On July 14th, 1942, all the Jews were examined by the SS in order to determine who was able to work or not.
		More than 103.000 Jews were transferred from Westerbork to Auschwitz or Sobibor (an extermination camp in Poland).
	www.jewishgen.org /ForgottenCamps/Camps/WestEng.html (477 words)

	A visit to Kamp Westerbork
		After the Wannsee-conference and the decision about the Endlösung (Final Solution) of the Jewish problem Kamp Westerbork was enlarged to become a temporary internment- and transitcamp for Dutch Jews, Gipsies and political prisoners en-route to the deathcamps in the East.
		Westerbork was not a concentrationcamp in the classical sence of the word.
		The map of Kamp Westerbork is from the archives of the
	users.skynet.be /sky35373/westerbe.htm (773 words)

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		Kamp Westerbork was het grootste en belangrijkste concentratiekamp in Nederland van waaruit alle opgepakte Joden en zigeuners werden afgevoerd naar Duitsland.
		Hier werden de Joden gevangen gehouden voordat ze werden gedeporteerd naar Westerbork en vervolgens naar kampen in Auschwitz/Birkenau of Sobibor, beide in Polen.
		In Westerbork is een monument opgericht dat herinnert aan alle Joden en zigeuners die langs dit spoor werden afgevoerd.
	www.tarissing.cybercomm.nl /concentratiekamp.html (1013 words)

	This Month in Holocaust History
		From 1942-1944, Westerbork served as a transit camp for Jews who were being deported to the East.
		Refugees from other camps were moved to Westerbork after the fall of the Netherlands, and in 1941 it had a population of 1,100.
		It was he who handled the first transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz and caused a riot when, in order to fill the required quota of 1,000 deportees, he included in the transport children without their parents and women who happened to be standing on line for admittance into the camp.
	www1.yadvashem.org /about_holocaust/month_in_holocaust/december/decenber_lexicon/WESTERBORK.html (588 words)

	Transit Camps in the Netherlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The town of Westerbork is situated in the northeast of the Netherlands in the province of Drenthe, about 130 km (80 miles) north of
		Unlike other transit camps, Westerbork maintained a semi-permanent population who remained in the camp for a considerable time, ran their own affairs and maintained a near-normal life, especially in the periods when there were no deportations.
		Westerbork took on many of the characteristics of a small town.
	www.deathcamps.org /reinhard/dutchcamps.html (2385 words)

	Westerbork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Westerbork was the main transit camp used by the Germans during their occupation of Holland to send people--mostly Jews--to the death camps in Poland.
		Westerbork was located near Assen, in northeastern Holland (see map).
		Camp Westerbork was used immediately after the war to intern Dutch collaborators, then, from about 1950 until 1970, as a relocation camp for dislocated people returning from the former Dutch colonies.
	sorrel.humboldt.edu /~rescuers/book/Bochove/bertlinks/wbork.html (249 words)

	Westerbork Concentration Camp
		Westerbork Concentration camp is a three-hour drive east of Amsterdam on the German-Dutch border.
		After the war, Westerbork was used as a refugee camp for Dutch and Indonesians, as well as immigrants from the South Moluccan Islands to Holland.
		Westerbork Museum - Exhibit on post-war Dutch and Indonesian returnees.
	www.chgs.umn.edu /Visual___Artistic_Resources/Public_Holocaust_Memorials/Westerbork_Concentration_Camp/westerbork_concentration_camp.html (349 words)

	Expatica's Dutch news in English: Dutch commemorate liberation of Westerbork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thousands of people were taking part in an afternoon silent march to the National Monument Westerbork after camp survivors read stories relating to their ordeal in the village of Hooghalen in the north-east of the country.
		In addition, the Westerbork Camp Memorial Centre was holding a special reunion after the remembrance ceremony for former camp prisoners, descendants and relatives.
		Westerbork was a transit camp during World War II and an estimated 107,000 Jews, 245 gypsies and several dozen resistance fighters passed through the camp between 1942-45.
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=19000&name=Dutch+commemorate+liberation+of+Westerbork (654 words)

	Camp Westerbork
		In October 1939 the Dutch government began to use camp Westerbork as a refugee camp for German Jews who fled to the Netherlands after Hitler came into power in 1933.
		There were various services in camp Westerbork, such as the camp police, the medical service, the inside and outside services (e.g.
		In April 1945 camp Westerbork was liberated by Canadian soldiers.
	www.kampwesterbork.nl /Camp.htm (430 words)

	Jancology: Camp Westerbork
		When we went to the radio telescope at Westhalen we suddenly arived at the entrance of transit camp Westerbork.
		Westerbork was the main site to transfer Dutch Jews to Auschwitz For us the time wasn’t right to visit this historical place today but we will definately return.
		There is loads of information about camp westerbork available.
	jancology.com /blog/archives/2003/06/25/camp_westerbork.html (167 words)

	Westerbork
		Subsequent to its use in the 2nd World War, the Westerbork camp was usedto house Indonesian refugees.
		Subsequent to its use in the 2nd World War, the Westerbork camp was used to house Indonesian refugees.
		In 1969 the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) was installed on the same site, between the villages of Westerbork and Hooghalen.
	www.termsdefined.net /we/westerbork.html (223 words)

	Westerbork (Holland)
		The camp of Westerbork was situated about 15 km from the village of Westerbork.
		On July 14, 1942, all the Jews were examined by the SS in order to determine who was able to work or not.
		There was a school, a hair-dresser, an orchestra [also a complete cabaret group consisting of famous Dutch artists who tried to cheer up the inmates, and were required to present all performances in German], and even a restaurant.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Westerbork.html (518 words)

	Gallery - Camp Westerbork - Photos
		The five "signs" stand for the camps to which Westerbork residents were deported.
		Of the 34,313 deported to Sobibor, 19 survived.
		More than 56,500 Jews and more than 200 Sinti and Roma were deported from Camp Westerbork to their deaths at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/resource/gallery/west2.htm (321 words)

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