Fear of Depotation

I found the worst thing to be the night hours between Mondays & Tuesdays during which the named of those on the next transport were proclaimed. Everywhere people wer crying because families were split up – by e.g. only the father being deported. You were always afraid that your own name would be on the list for deportation to the east. Everyone was happy, me also, when your name was not on the list.. When I played football outside I could see how many people were being deported in a week. It could be that at the start of the week I would be one of a dozen friends – by the end of the week only three might remain. When the transport train departed it was not a cause for relief though – because you knew your name might be on the list a week later. Then it would happen. The train came, a long train with cattle-wagons and SS men with dogs. That was the worst thing for all those in Westerbork – the night before the transports.

Deportation -  Westerbork
(B1)

Bahnschild Westerbork - Auschwitz Auschwitz Westerbork each week a transport with about 1000 prisoners left Westerbork going to the death camps Auschwitz and Sobibor (B2)	Transportramp at Westerbork, prisoners left Westerbork from the Transportramp (B3)
Train line to Auschwitz and Sobibor (B4)	Deportationtrain in Auschwitz (B5)