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@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

@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 11:00 PM

11 September 1937 | Dutch Jewish boy, Godfrey Hoepelman, was born at The Hague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

Vintage photograph of a young boy standing next to a table

@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 8:00 PM

10 September 1937 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Marcel Alter, was born in Brussels. He lived in the Netherlands.

He arrived at Auschwitz on 30 September 1942 in a transport of 610 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was among 454 of them murdered in a gas chamber.

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@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 5:00 AM

10 September 1933 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Ralf Jozef Oettinger, was born in Amsterdam.

He was deported from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto in February 1944. On 16 October 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz where he was murdered after selection on 18 October.

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@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 5:00 AM

10 September 1933 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Ralf Jozef Oettinger, was born in Amsterdam.

He was deported from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto in February 1944. On 16 October 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz where he was murdered after selection on 18 October.

@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 5:00 AM

9 September 1924 | A Dutch Jew, Joël van Delft, was born in Groningen. A tailor apprentice.

In February 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork. He did not survive.

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@ramonfliek.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 5:00 AM

September 7, 1943: On Tuesday, the 75th transport from the Netherlands departed from #Westerbork for #Auschwitz. The train comprised 27 cattle cars and carried 987 deportees. There were 96 children on this transport. The youngest was born in Westerbork on August 8.

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Every transport has its special tragic cases. The latest transport saw the disappearance of a young and gifted pianist called Mischa Hillesum.

Photo: Mischa Hillesum at the piano (I talked about his sister Etty on August 24).

@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 2:00 AM

8 September 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Elinor Oettinger, was born in Hamburg. She emigrated to the Netherlands.

Deported from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto & then to #Auschwitz where on 18 Oct 1944 she was murdered in a gas chamber with her mother Betti & brother Ralf.

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intage black and white photo of a young girl smiling at the camera, wearing a checkered dress.

@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 2:00 PM

5 September 1932 | A Dutch Jewish boy, David Ossendrijver, was born in Rotterdam.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 7 April 1944 in a transport of 240 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was among 111 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.