Westerbork transit camp
Camp Westerbork, also known as Westerbork transit camp, was a Nazi transit camp in the province of Drenthe in the Northeastern Netherlands, during World War II.
Photo: Blacknight, Public domain.- Type: Historic site
- Description: Nazi transit camp for Jews in the occupied Netherlands
- Also known as: “Camp Westerbork”, “De Schattenberg”, “Durchgangslager Westerbork”, “Kamp Westerbork”, “Kamp Zwiggelte”, and “Westerbork Transit Camp”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Barak 56 and 102.000 stones.
Barak 56
Historic building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ekehaar and Hooghalen.
Ekehaar
Village
Photo: Gouwenaar, Public domain.Hooghalen
Village
Elp
Village
Photo: Gouwenaar, Public domain.Westerbork transit camp
- Categories: transit camp, Nazi concentration camp, Ilag, war memorial, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Midden-Drenthe, Drenthe, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
52.91629° or 52° 54′ 59″ north
Longitude
6.60743° or 6° 36′ 27″ east
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
Inception
September 1939
Open location code
9F48WJ84+GX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yes
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Westerbork transit camp” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “معسكر العبور فستربورك”
- Armenian: “Վեստերբորկ (համակենտրոնացման ճամբար)”
- Armenian: “Վեստերբորկ”
- Belarusian: “Вэстэрборк”
- Bulgarian: “Вестерборк”
- Catalan: “Camp de concentració de Westerbork”
- Chinese: “威斯特柏爾克集中營”
- Chinese: “韋斯特博克中轉營”
- Chinese: “韋斯特博克營”
- Chinese: “韋斯特博克集中營”
- Chinese: “韦斯特博克营”
- Czech: “Internační tábor Westerbork”
- Danish: “Westerbork”
- Dutch: “Concentratiekamp Westerbork”
- Dutch: “Kamp Westerbork”
- Dutch: “Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Westerbork”
- Dutch: “voormalig Kamp Westerbork”
- Dutch: “Westerbork”
- Esperanto: “Koncentrejo Westerbork”
- Esperanto: “Westerbork”
- Finnish: “Westerbork”
- French: “camp de regroupement et de transit de Westebork”
- French: “camp de regroupement et de transit de Westerbork”
- French: “Camp de regroupement et de transit de Westerbork”
- French: “camp Westerbork”
- German: “Concentratiekamp Westerbork”
- German: “Durchgangslager Westerbork”
- German: “Kamp Westerbork”
- German: “Konzentrationslager Westerbork”
- German: “KZ Westerbork”
- German: “Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Westerbork”
- German: “Polizeiliches Judendurchgangslager Westerbork”
- Greek: “στρατόπεδο διέλευσης Βέστερμπορκ”
- Hebrew: “ווסטרבורק”
- Hebrew: “וסטרבורג”
- Hebrew: “וסטרבורק”
- Hebrew: “מחנה המעבר המשטרתי ליהודים וסטרבורק”
- Hebrew: “מחנה וסטרבורק”
- Indonesian: “Kamp transit Westerbork”
- Italian: “campo di concentramento di Westerbork”
- Italian: “Campo di transito di Westerbork”
- Japanese: “ヴェステルボルク”
- Japanese: “ヴェステルボルク強制収容所”
- Japanese: “ヴェステルボルク通過収容所”
- Latvian: “Vesterborkas tranzītnometne”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Durchgangslager Westerbork”
- Norwegian: “Durchgangslager Westerbork”
- Persian: “اردوگاه انتقالی وستربورک”
- Polish: “Kamp Westerbork”
- Portuguese: “Campo de concentração de Westerbork”
- Romanian: “Lagărul de tranzit Westerbork”
- Russian: “Вестерборк”
- Slovenian: “Durchgangslager Westerbork”
- Slovenian: “Tranzitno taborišče Westerbork”
- Spanish: “Campo de concentración de Westerbork”
- Spanish: “Westerbork”
- Swedish: “Westerbork”
- Turkish: “Westerbork transfer kampı”
- Ukrainian: “Вестерборк”
- Uzbek: “Vesterbork konslageri”
- Western Frisian: “Kamp Westerbork”
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