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@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 2:00 AM

28 September 1940 | Dutch Jewish twins, Eva & Mozes Zwaaf, were born in Amsterdam.

They were deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. They were murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Jews deported from occupied Netherlands: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 2:00 AM

25 September 1882 | Dutch Jewish woman Naatje Dessaur-Susan was born in Amsterdam.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 26 September 1942 in a transport of 928 Jews deported from #Westerbork. She was among 749 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

Portrait of a woman wearing glasses and a dark cardigan over a light blouse, looking directly at the camera.

@henklang.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 11:30 AM

Westeerbork 2 en slot
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#Westerbork #bezetting #WO2 #herinnering #herdenking #photography #fotografie

@henklang.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 5:18 PM

Westerbork
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#Westerbork #bezetting #WO2 #herinnering #herdenking #photography #fotografie

@ramonfliek.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 1:08 AM

September 21, 1943: A transport departed #Westerbork to #Auschwitz carrying 979 deportees. After selection, 303 men and 288 women were led into the camp. 100 women were chosen for Block 10 (experiments). only 14 men and 44 women survived this transport.

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The transport reached Auschwitz on September 23, 1943, with 979 Jews - 60 children, 384 men and 394 women aged 50 and below, and 141 persons aged 51 and above. The deportees were required to remove their luggage from the train by themselves and were told that they would receive it later. Most of the survivors remember the first time they saw Jewish prisoners in “striped suits” and SS men with dogs clutching whips behind them.
After selection, 303 men and 288 women were led into the camp. The men were tattooed with the serial numbers 151852–152154, and the women received the numbers 62984–63271. The other deportees were murdered in the gas chambers immediately after reaching the camp.
One hundred of the women who had passed the selection process were chosen for Block 10 - the barracks at Auschwitz where experiments were conducted. Out of the 2,685 Jews who had been deported in this transport and in the transports that had set out from Westerbork to Auschwitz on August 24 and September 14, 1943, 244 women were assigned to this block. After being threatened with death, 240 of them agreed to undergo the surgical procedures and 110 survived the war. Theresia van Praag was selected for medical experiments and survived the war.
In their testimonies, the Dutch women survivors from this transport describe the humiliation that they felt as male prisoners shaved their body hair, given that their block was part of the men’s camp. Only married women were placed in this block. Theresia managed to see her husband from a distance but was not allowed to speak with him; about two months later, he died.
Of the 979 deportees in the transport that left Westerbork for Auschwitz on September 21, 1943, only 14 men and 44 women are known to have survived.
Photo: The Black Wall (execution wall), between Block 10 (left) and Block 11 (right) in Auschwitz.

@berlin-news-en.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 7:39 AM

❝ auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social: 20 September 1926 | A Dutch Jew, Raphaël Bachrach, was born in Arnhem.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 27 January 1944 in a transport of 948 Jews deported from #Westerbork. After the selection, he was murdered in a gas chamber.

@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 11:00 PM

20 September 1926 | A Dutch Jew, Raphaël Bachrach, was born in Arnhem.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 27 January 1944 in a transport of 948 Jews deported from #Westerbork. After the selection, he was murdered in a gas chamber.

@ramonfliek.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 12:34 AM

September 18, 1942: The 20th transport from #Westerbork left for #Auschwitz-Birkenau. There were 1004 men, women and children on board and after selection 829 people were send straight to the gas chambers. Only 2 people of this transport would survive the war.

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One of the survivors was Leendert Van Sister, his wife and two children were killed in the gas chambers on arrival at #Auschwitz. His parents would be murdered in #Sobibor in 1943. Leendert passed away in Amsterdam on March 08, 1996 at the age of 81.
Photo: Westerbork transit camp

@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 11:00 PM

18 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Greetje Leger, was born in Amsterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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The ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

A portrait photo of a Dutch Jewish girl, Greetje Leger. Very young girl with longer hair and open mouth.

@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 11:00 PM

16 September 1933 | Dutch Jewish girl, Silvia Juliette Basch, was born in Amsterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. https://t.co/xnCHqF5us3

Vintage black and white photo of a young girl wearing a beret and a turtleneck sweater, smiling with eyes closed.

@ramonfliek.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 3:11 AM

September 14, 1944: A transport left #Westerbork to #Auschwitz-Birkenau, The train arrived on September 16. After selection 626 people, including 4-year old Elly Frank, were murdered in the gas chambers that day.

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Maurits Broeks and his wife were arrested in their home and transported to Westerbork.
In the camp Broeks was asked by Kurt Schlesinger, the German Jewish Oberdienstleiter to take a 4 year old girl named Elly Frank under his wing: Elly’s parents had gone into hiding but, under the assumption that young children would not be hurt, they left Elly in the care of her non-Jewish babysitter. The mayor of Lienden, Cornelis Kamp, notified the German authorities about the Jewish girl and they ordered her immediate transfer to The Hague from where she was sent to Westerbork. Since Maurits Broeks was together with his wife, Schlesinger thought it better to hand the little girl over to them to look after during the transport on September 14 to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The train, that contained 902 deportees, halted on a dead-end siding near Cosel for a day. There, a selection of able-bodied men was carried out for slave labour and they were forced off the train while being beaten and whipped. About 200 men including Maurits had to squat until the train left. They were then loaded onto 2 trucks with trailers and were taken to Gogolin, a slave labour camp located in Upper Silesia. After a stay of almost three weeks in Gogolin all the inhabitants of the camp were transferred to Johannsdorf, another forced labour camp in the area.
Mozes Koster recounted later that the guards took great pleasure in telling the men who had left the train in Cosel that all those who had continued onward were to be murdered in gas chambers in Auschwitz, and that they, the able-bodied men, would be put to work until they too dropped dead.
The train arrived on September 16 in Auschwitz. 47 men and 29 women were admitted to the camp. The remaining 626 people, including 4-year old Elly Frank, were murdered in the gas chambers that day.
Only 8 men, who had disembarked in Cosel, survived this transport. Non of the people that were send on to Auschwitz survived.
Photo: Esther (Elly) Frank on the right.

@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 2:00 AM

15 September 1931. | A Dutch Jewish boy, Joseph Karel Vos, was born in Kempen.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 26 November 1942 in a transport of 709 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was among 667 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

A young boy riding a bicycle down a cobblestone street.

@ramonfliek.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 3:46 AM

September 13, 1944: The final deportation train left #Westerbork on this Wednesday. It carried two transports: one to #Bergen-Belsen with 268 deportees and another to #Auschwitz, carrying 11 passengers.

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aboard this transport, Mary Andriaansz-Groen, related that she had been deported with a group of children on a train consisting of freight cars. To provide for the youngsters, straw had been placed on the floors as mattresses and makeshift tables and small benches had been provided. “We received milk bottles that contained water and milk from the Dutch,” as well as an “old-fashioned” laundry basket filled with sandwiches. However, she continued, the Germans advised the deportees to throw these provisions out because they were told: “You’re going to a camp where you’ll have everything better.” They did not know the journey would be so lengthy and regretted having done so. Aboard the train, Andriaansz-Groen continued, the passengers sang songs and told stories. The children were tired and ill; several had not yet learned to control their bodily functions. Thus, the situation was dire.
“The important people who dealt in diamonds,” in contrast, sat in a passenger compartment. It was impossible to see out of the sealed freight cars because the only light that entered came through slots in the roof. The passengers had no idea where they were going. When the doors were opened on the only one occasion after the train had stood for hours under a sizzling sun the adults tried to protect the children and conceal them from the Germans who had promised them fresh water and were actually keeping their word. The water that they had brought, however, was of no use to the infant Henriëtte Delia (Jetje) Hamburger (b. December 24, 1943), who died mid-journey, probably of dehydration. “I couldn’t give her a thing,” Andriaansz-Groen explained. “The milk we’d received from Westerbork went bad after only one day.”

Apart from the baby, whose place of burial is unknown, at least 4 children from this transport died by the middle of June 1945.
Photo: Henriëtte Delia (Jetje) Hamburger.

@ramonfliek.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 5:27 AM

September 11, 1942: On this Friday the 18th transport of Jews from the Netherlands left #Westerbork transit camp for #Auschwitz-Birkenau with 874 Jewish men, women and children on it. Only 10 men survived this transport.

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The train halted in Cosel on September 12 at about 14.00 and approximately 200 able-bodied men under the age of 50 had to get off the train. From Cosel they were taken by three or four trucks to forced labour camps in Upper Silesia: Niederkirch, Gogolin or Annaberg and would be transferred to other work camps.
There they were awaited by “a bunch of brown shirts with swastikas” according to Jonas Pampel, one of the survivors who was deported together with his wife and 2 daughters (13 and 15 y/o). He added that the train travelled straight from Westerbork to Cosel and that when the men had left the train and it resumed its journey, there was terrible wailing and crying. The train with the remaining deportees arrived in Auschwitz later that day.
Pampel's wife and children were murdered on arrival.
According to Guus Luijters, the author of ‘In Memoriam’ where he documents the deportation and murder of children from the Netherlands, there were 175 children on this transport. The youngest was Willy Henny Scheffer, 5 months old. He was gassed on arrival together with his mother. His father died two years later in Auschwitz sub(work)-camp Blechhammer.
As with all these transports, whole families were take and murdered. Barend Buitenkant (9 years old) was send on this transport together with his two brothers of 11 and 13 and their parents. Barend ,his brothers and his mother were gassed on arrival and their father died in Seibersdorf concentration camp in 1943.
When the 18th transport from Westerbork arrived at Auschwitz at selection, 26 men and 34 women were admitted into the camp. The other deportees were murdered within hours in the gas chambers.
10 people survived this transport.
Photo: Meijer Buitenkant and his wife Susanna Buitenkant-Coster with their children, Abraham, Barend and Maurits