Westerbork Research Paper

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Westerbork camp was established in October 1939. Westerbork transit camp was a World War II Nazi refugees.The camp continued to function after the Germans invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940.In 1941 Westerbork had a population of one thousand Jewish refugees mostly from Germany.

Westerbork served as a transit camp from 1942 to 1944, the Jews where sent their before they where deported to exterminate camps. Westerbork was enlarged. From July 1942 to September 1944 the Germans deported ninety-seven thousand seven hundred seventy-six Jews from Westerbork to extermination camps.

Westerbork was not a extermination camp it was a transit camp. a transit camp is a temporary accommodation of group of people. Jews were imprisoned in