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Westerbork (Concentration camp)

LC control no.n 97034608
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Corporate name headingWesterbork (Concentration camp)
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Variant(s)Transit Camp Westerbork
Kamp Westerbork
Nazi Transit Camp Westerbork
KZ Westerbork
וסטרבורק
Beginning date1942-06-01
Ending date1945-04-12
LocatedWesterbork (Netherlands)
Field of activityWorld War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inDas nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, 1990: p. 285 (Westerbork; transit camp to the Eastern concentration camps)
Verzeichnis der Haftstätten unter den Reichsführer-SS, 1979: p. 645 (Westerbork; police detention camp; opened June 1, 1942; liberated Apr. 12, 1945)
LC database, Apr. 2, 1997 (hdg.: Westerbork (Netherlands : Concentration camp); usage: Westerbork, Transit Camp Westerbork, Kamp Westerbork; Nazi Transit Camp Westerbork)
NUCMC data from Holocaust Center of Northern Calif. for Jakobowitz family papers, 1943-1945 (collection contains materials from KZ Westerbork)
New York times, 12 Sept. 2019: page B12, in obituary for Diet Eman (By 1942, Dutch boys and men were being conscripted to fill factory jobs in Germany, and the harrassment of Dutch Jews escalated to outright persecution and transport to the Westerbork camp, in the northeast Netherlands, from which they were deported to death camps in Germany and German-occupied Poland)
Invalid LCCNsh 85146245