Identity Document of the Dutch Prisoner Loewendorff Norbert (Hebrew Name: Natan Lisser) from Barrack 37 in Westerbork Camp. Rare.
Loewendorff, born August 19, 1911, arrived at the Westerbork camp on March 20, 1940. On the back of the document, it is noted that he belonged to Blood Group A and was “authorized to move freely outside the barrack after curfew hours for official purposes, provided he wears an armband”, dated November 14, 1944. The card bears an instruction in German: “Always carry this card with you and hand it in upon leaving the camp.”
Lisser’s name appears in the Arolsen Archives for Holocaust victims, where his registration card from the camp is also documented. However, it is unclear from the records whether he survived or perished in the camp.
A similar identification document from Westerbork, belonging to the prisoner Lea Blum Walg, is housed in Yad Vashem (see Das Geld des Terrors by Hans-Ludwig Grabowski, Battenberg, 2008, p. 326).
The Westerbork Police Transit Camp for Jews (Polizeiliches Judendurchgangslager Westerbork) was one of two transit camps established by the Nazis in the Netherlands (the other was Vught, in southern Holland) to deport Dutch Jews to concentration and extermination camps in the East. It was established in February 1939 and began operating as a Nazi transit camp on July 1, 1942, following the German occupation of the Netherlands. The camp was liberated on April 12, 1945, by Canadian soldiers. Approximately 102,000 Jews were deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz and Sobibor.
15×10.5 cm (open). Good condition.
