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Westerbork today

Last Update 25 June 2006

  




THE MEMORIAL CENTRE
The Memorial Centre with exhibition rooms, a cinema room, and a shop. It is located 2,5 km from the camp area.

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THE MEMORIAL CENTRE
The entrance to the permanent exhibition.

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THE CAMP ENTRANCE
The camp entrance seen from the Kommandant's house. The path follows the former railway, parallel to the main street of the camp, ironically called "Kalverstraat", the busiest street in Amsterdam (most expensive location), or "Boulevard des Misères".

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THE KOMMANDANT'S HOUSE
The house of the camp commander Albert Konrad Gemmeker is still visible.

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THE FORMER RAMP
The location of the former ramp is shown by symbolic concrete sleepers.

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THE FORMER RAMP
The location of the former ramp.

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THE MAIN MONUMENT - THE END OF THE RAMP
The location where the former ramp ended.

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THE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS
The memorial inscriptions are on two stones with texts in Hebrew and Dutch.

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A WATCHTOWER
This watchtower is located at the end of the railway track.

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SHACK
Symbolic concrete reconstruction of a part of a living shack ("große Wohnbaracke").

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LATRINE
Symbolic concrete reconstruction of a latrine.

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THE LOCATION OF THE FORMER "STRAFBARACKEN"
This photo shows the corner of the camp where the penalty shack were located, to be seen left from the Kommandant's house.

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"STRAFBARACKEN" EXPLANATION
This photo shows an explanation of the penalty shack site in Dutch.

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THE POTATOE CELLAR
This photo shows the still existing potatoe cellar (Kartoffelkeller), a storage for the basic food of the prisoners .

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THE FORMER "APPELLPLATZ"
The photo shows the former roll call place ("Appellplatz"). Today the site is covered with small symbolic stones, looking like candles.

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SIGNS OF WESTERBORK
This monument consists of five concrete coffins in which the destinations (Sobibor, Bergen-Belsen, Theresienstadt, Mauthausen, and Auschwitz-Birkenau) and the numbers of deported and muredered Jews and Roma are engraved.

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