Westerbork transit camp

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Westerbork transit camp was a Nazi detention and transit camp in the Netherlands used during World War II to assemble and deport Jews and other persecuted groups to extermination and concentration camps in Eastern Europe.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi transit camp
World War II site
detention camp
commemorates Dutch Jews deported during the Holocaust
Holocaust victims
constructedBy Government of the Netherlands
surface form: Dutch government
continent Europe
controlledBy SS
country Netherlands
currentUse memorial site
museum
dateOfLiberation 1945-04-12
dateTakenOver 1942
deportationDestination AuschwitzBirkenau
surface form: Auschwitz concentration camp

BergenBelsen
surface form: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Buchenwald
surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Dachau
surface form: Dachau concentration camp

Mauthausen concentration camp
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Sobibor
surface form: Sobibor extermination camp

Theresienstadt concentration camp
surface form: Theresienstadt ghetto
estimatedNumberOfDeportees approximately 100000
hasFacility barracks
hospital
orchestra
railway siding
school
theatre
liberatedBy Canadian Army
locatedIn Drenthe
locatedNear Hooghalen
Westerbork transit camp self-linksurface differs
surface form: Westerbork
memorialName Westerbork transit camp self-linksurface differs
surface form: Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork
notablePrisoner Anne Frank
Edith Frank
Etty Hillesum
Margot Frank
Philip Mechanicus
operatedBy Nazi Germany
originalPurpose refugee camp for German Jews
primaryFunction detention of persecuted groups
transit of Jews to extermination camps
takenOverBy Nazi Germany
usedDuring World War II
usedFor assembly of deportation transports
imprisonment of Jews
imprisonment of Roma
imprisonment of Sinti
imprisonment of political prisoners
yearEstablished 1939

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Margot Frank deportedTo Westerbork transit camp
Edith Frank deportedTo Westerbork transit camp
Hermann van Pels placeOfDetention Westerbork transit camp
Peter van Pels placeOfDetention Westerbork transit camp
Nazi occupation of the Netherlands deportationTo Westerbork transit camp
Westerbork transit camp locatedNear Westerbork transit camp self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Westerbork
Westerbork transit camp memorialName Westerbork transit camp self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork
Dutch Jews deportationFrom Westerbork transit camp
Edith Holländer deportedTo Westerbork transit camp
Midden-Drenthe containsSettlement Westerbork transit camp
this entity surface form: Westerbork
Auguste van Pels deportedTo Westerbork transit camp
Auguste van Pels imprisonedIn Westerbork transit camp
Hannah Elisabeth Goslar imprisonedIn Westerbork transit camp
Hanneli Goslar deportedTo Westerbork transit camp
Goslar family associatedWith Westerbork transit camp