Four bills used by the inmates of the Westerbork camp, values: 10, 25, 50, 100 cents. In front of each bill, can be seen the chimney, as part of the camp’s landscape. On the back of each bill is the signature of the camp commander (in print) Albert Konrad Gemmeker.
The Judendurchgangslager Westerbork was one of two transit camps set up by the Nazis in the Netherlands (the other was Fichte, in southern Holland) to deport Dutch Jews to concentration and extermination camps in the East. The camp was established in February 1939, and began to function as a transit camp on July 1, 1942 after the Germans occupied the Netherlands. (Anne Frank was in the camp between August 7 and September 3, 1944 before being sent to Auschwitz). Was released on April 12, 1945 by Canadian soldiers. About 102,000 Jews were sent from the camp to be exterminated in Auschwitz and Sobibor.
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