With teachers and tour leaders of wonderful student group from Istanbul, in a freezing Amsterdam, and together visiting Westerbork, my first time and quite an experience…
Here you see the Jewish star representing those who were transported from there.. Only about 5000 Jews and 500 gypsies survived…, but we learned that the camp was originally built for German Jewish refugees fleeing the nazi occupation, and only later became a nazi workkamp.. Life here was not that bad, there was a school, hospital, cafeteria, and even a theatre, but then people were sent on to concentration camps like Bergen Belsen, Auschwitz, etc… Anne Frank and her family were on the last transport in September…