Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre - Hooghalen

Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre's museum tells about the lives of concentration camp victims and survivors. Westerbork was a transit camp at the time of World War II. More than 100,000 Jews, Sinti and Roma were deported from here to extermination camps in Eastern Europe.

Personal stories of the prisoners, as well as of guards, train drivers and local residents in exhibitions and films bring the memories to life. Film footage from 1944, a partially furnished barracks, a last farewell greeting from the train, a large model of the camp and drawings of children playing give an image and a feeling of this eloquent past.

Much of the museum is, of course, about Camp Westerbork and World War II. But it had several functions after the war. In the period from 1945-1949, for instance, it was an internment camp for NSBs, SS and others who had collaborated with Nazis. It then became a repatriation camp for Dutch East Indies nationals following the transfer of sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies. In 1951, the camp became a residential resort for Moluccans. This is also commemorated at the memorial centre.