Westerbork transit camp

Westerbork
Westerbork
Transit camp
	Barracks at Westerbork after liberation
	Location of Westerbork within Netherlands
Coordinates	52°55′3″N 6°36′26″E / 52.91750°N 6.60722°E
Other names	Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Westerbork, Judendurchgangslager Westerbork
Location	Westerbork, Netherlands
Operated by	SS
Original use	Refugee camp
Operational	1939 – 1940; (as a refugee camp); 1 July 1942 –; 12 April 1945; (as a transit camp)
Inmates	Jews
Number of inmates	97,776 deported, mostly to Auschwitz and Sobibór; 876 liberated;
Liberated by	Canadian 2nd Infantry Division
Notable inmates	Anne Frank, Dora Gerson, Etty Hillesum, Philip Slier, Edith Stein, Selma Wijnberg-Engel, Max Ehrlich, Wilhelm Mautner, Ellen Burka, Walter Süskind, Settela Steinbach, Maurice Frankenhuis
Notable books	The Night of the Girondins
Website	www.westerbork.nl

Camp Westerbork (Dutch: Kamp Westerbork, German: Durchgangslager Westerbork, Drents: Börker Kamp; Kamp Westerbörk), also known as Westerbork transit camp, was a Nazi transit camp in the province of Drenthe in the Northeastern Netherlands, during World War II.^[1] It was located in the municipality of Westerbork, current-day Midden-Drenthe. Camp Westerbork was used as a staging location for sending Jews, Sinti and Roma to concentration camps elsewhere.^[2]

^ Holocaust Encyclopedia. "Westerbork". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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