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

ID: 784 ~ Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ~ Creator: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York
 ~ Date: ca. 1940 -1945
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From 1942 to 1944 Westerbork served as a transit camp for Dutch Jews before they were deported to killing centers in German-occupied Poland.

This file appears in: Arrested

By Susan Heinemann Berman
"Well, as it turns out, the Nazis were eradicating Jews at that point in all their occupied countries, as well as in Germany. And in 1943--I believe it was May 18-- they [Selma, Karl, and Ilse Simon] were arrested, and they were sent to Westerbork,…