The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/westerbork/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:15:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Westerbork | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/westerbork/ 32 32 Dutch national rail company offers $5.6 million for Holocaust transport of Jews https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-national-rail-company-offers-5-6-million-for-holocaust-transport-of-jews/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 09:16:45 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2335372 Jewish community representatives say offer is disappointingly low and money should be given to families as well as memorials; NS carried an estimated 102,000 Jews to their deaths

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]]> Dutch Holocaust museum drops ex-director’s claim Jews threatened to kill him https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-holocaust-museum-drops-ex-directors-claim-jews-threatened-to-kill-him/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:29:37 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2138134 Dirk Mulder said in April that anti-immigration activists and people from 'the Jewish circle' had sent death threats over event on Middle Eastern migrants

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]]> Survivors’ daughter rejects Dutch Holocaust museum plan to mark current refugees https://www.timesofisrael.com/daughter-of-survivors-rejects-holocaust-museums-plan-to-mark-current-refugees/ Sat, 26 Jan 2019 07:02:15 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2006197 Vice chairman of Dutch Central Jewish Board says hosting of event at Westerbork implies comparison between migrant crisis and Shoah

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]]> Former Nazi camp in Holland to host event for refugees https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-nazi-camp-in-holland-to-host-event-for-refugees/ Mon, 21 Jan 2019 07:38:27 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2002568 Jewish community leader Ronny Naftaniel criticizes comparison between refugeedom and systemic annihilation of European Jewry

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]]> These Dutch Holocaust survivors have been madly in love for 70 years https://www.timesofisrael.com/these-dutch-holocaust-survivors-have-been-madly-in-love-for-70-years/ Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:08:13 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1873788 A newly released documentary sets out to record the nonagenarians' one-of-a-kind romance, and its tragic roots

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]]> Lost music of Holocaust victims returns to Dutch camp where it was once heard https://www.timesofisrael.com/lost-music-of-holocaust-victims-returns-to-dutch-camp-where-it-was-once-heard/ Wed, 04 Apr 2018 02:07:11 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1822809 A unique project spearheaded by the Jewish National Fund in the United Kingdom is breathing life into musical works written during WWII and almost lost forever

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]]> At Westerbork, virtual reality simulations ‘recreate’ the Nazi transit camp https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-westerbork-virtual-reality-simulations-recreate-the-nazi-transit-camp/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:02:39 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1769577 Holland-based museum pilots a new GPS-based model to let visitors envision the Holocaust site -- down to bricks, strands of barbed wire, and imperfections on wooden shingles

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]]> In Holland, the Nazis built a luxury camp to lull the Jews before murdering them https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-holland-the-nazis-built-a-luxury-camp-to-lull-the-jews-before-murdering-them/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:21:40 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1652383 While Jews in much of Europe were subjected to violence, torture, abuse and murder in camps, in Westerbork there was an eerie illusion of civility

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]]> For Holocaust’s loneliest survivors, young Israelis are a lifeline https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-holocausts-loneliest-survivors-young-israelis-are-a-lifeline/ Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:58:44 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1549350 Thousands of volunteers help ensure some 'good feelings' for the 160,000-strong community of survivors in Israel, the world's largest

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]]> Ex-Auschwitz SS guard, 93, faces German trial in April https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-auschwitz-ss-guard-93-faces-german-trial-in-april/ Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:55:21 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1334686 Former death camp worker oversaw the arrival of trains full of Jews; on his watch, at least 1,075 perished in gas chambers

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]]> Dutch thrift shop returns wedding book of couple slain at Auschwitz https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-thrift-shop-returns-wedding-book-of-couple-slain-at-auschwitz/ Sat, 30 Jan 2016 00:23:35 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1330675 Niece of groom reclaims memento of 1942 marriage after appeal by Kringloper Almere store goes viral

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]]> Cabaret at Holocaust camp reenacted in one-woman show https://www.timesofisrael.com/cabaret-at-holocaust-camp-reenacted-in-one-woman-show/ Sat, 19 Dec 2015 10:42:50 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1298236 Joanna Caplan's 'Total Verrückt!' shows how prisoners at Westerbork -- a Dutch way station to Auschwitz -- performed as an act of survival, resistance

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]]> Music used as resistance to the Nazis captures new audiences https://www.timesofisrael.com/music-used-as-resistance-to-the-nazis-captures-new-audiences/ Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:56:06 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1188552 A sold-out US tour of 'Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin' indicates a growing interest in recovering -- and reinterpreting -- the productions staged by Holocaust victims as prisoners

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]]> Westerbork Holocaust memorial to get WWII-era transport carts https://www.timesofisrael.com/westerbork-holocaust-memorial-to-get-wwii-era-transport-carts/ Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:31:16 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1100109 Relics purchased for permanent display date back to the 1940s, but may not have been used to deport Jews

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]]> 72 years later, jewels returned to heirs of deported Jews https://www.timesofisrael.com/72-years-later-jewels-returned-to-heirs-of-deported-jews/ Sun, 02 Nov 2014 13:56:15 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1085541 500 of small Netherlands town’s Jews were sent to Westerbork; only 46 survived

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