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The five "signs" stand for the camps to which Westerbork residents were deported. Of the 58,380 persons deported to Auschwitz from Westerbork, only 854 survived. Of the 34,313 deported to Sobibor, 19 survived. Of the 4,894 deported to Theresienstadt, approximately 1,980 survived. Of the 3,751 deported to Bergen Belsen, about 2,050 survived. And of the 150 deported to Buchenwald and Ravensbrück, fewer than 10 survived.
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The five "signs."
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One of the "signs."
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More than 56,500 Jews and more than 200 Sinti and Roma were deported from Camp Westerbork to their deaths at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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The number of deportees who lost their lives at Sobibor is 34,313.
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The National Werterbork Memorial was designed by Ralph Prins, a former Westerbork inmate.
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The memorial is located where the railroad from Hoodhalen to the camp terminated.
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The curled up rails are intended to express dispair.
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The ends of the rails have to treated to give the appearance that they have been shot at.
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End of a rail on the Westerbork National Monument.
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At the far end of the monument is a wall constructed of local boulders.
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Inscription from Lamentations 4:18: "They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets; our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come."
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Inscription from Lamentations 4:18: "They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets; our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come."
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The Appèlplaats, or roll call area, is covered with a monument of 102,000 stones representing the102,00 persons deported through Westerbork who did not live to return.
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The Appèlplaats is in the shape of a map of the Netherlands.
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The Appèlplaats monument.
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The Appèlplaats monument.
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The blocks with Stars of David represent the Jewish victims who passed through Westerbork. The flames represent the Sinti and Roma victims. The plain blocks represent resisters.
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Stars of David representing Jewish victims.
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Stars of David representing Jewish victims.
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Stars of David representing Jewish victims.
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Stars of David representing Jewish victims.
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Flames representing Sinti and Roma victims.
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Flames representing Sinti and Roma victims.
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Flames representing Sinti and Roma victims.
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Memorial placed by the government of Israel. "My sorrow is continually before me."
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