A hitler question, about Westerbork?

Question

Why did people either get sent to or from Westerborks transit camp?

Answer 1

as the name suggests it is a transit camp the reason the germans likeed to use this camp so much was accesability the only road leading there was awful at best and even a little shower would make it impassible but they had built railroads leading there that only they could use so the chances of it being found were extremely slim the reason they sent prisoners from this camp was to die usually at one of the death camps like auschwitz but they had to spend some time here in the transit to wait for there to be room for them at the death camps as in for other ppl to get killed to make room for more prisoners waiting for death then when they were killed and there was more room available another trainload would be brought and killed

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Answer 2

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. Until 1941 there were about 1,100 Jews, who lived in 200 newly built barracks divided into small houses. The camp was not guarded and the Dutch government was represented by a commander. On 10 May 1940 the Netherlands was invaded by German troops. In 1942 camp Westerbork came under supervision of the German occupying power. It was converted into a transit camp and adapted for deporting more than 100,000 Jews to 'the east'. Barracks were built with large dormitories, bunkbeds and washing facilities; barbed wire, watch towers and guards appeared; the railway was extended to the centre of the camp.

Answer 3

Westerbork was the camp used for the asssembly of Dutch Jews who were sent east to the Auschwitz complex of death camps. At the height of the assembly for murder of these people, trains were made up that took people east every week, generally on Tuesdays. In April, 1943 the Second Canadian Division liberated the camp which, at that time, only held a number of hundred survivors. The camp was used immediately after the war as a punishment camp for Dutch colllaborators with the Nazi German occupiers.