Westerbork was located in
Hooghalen, ten kilometers
north of Westerbork in the
northeastern Netherlands.
 

Arrival of a transport at the Westerbork camp. Westerbork,
the Netherlands, 1942.
 

Westerbork functioned as an assembly point for
Roma and Dutch Jews for
transport to other Nazi
concentration camps.
 

The train station in Westerbork. The smokestack of the new Ketelhuis is visible in the background,
1942-Apr 1944.

A view of the Westerbork camp, the Netherlands,
between 1940 and 1945. Courtesy of YIVO.

An elderly Jewish couple on their way from Hooghalen to the Westerbork transit camp. A member of the Dutch constabulary stands behind them, Oct 1942.
 

Between July 1942 and
September 1944, almost
every Tuesday a cargo
train left for the
Auschwitz-Birkenau,
Sobibór, Bergen-Belsen
and Theresienstadt
concentration camps.

Group portrait of Jewish prisoners in the Westerbork transit camp, May-Jun 1942.
 

In the period from 1942 to 1945, a total of 107,000 people passed through the camp on a total of 93 outgoing trains. Only 5,200 of them survived, most of them in Theresienstadt or Bergen-Belsen, or were liberated at Westerbork.