70 Cent 1992 - Transit Camp for Deportation Trains Westerbork


70 Cent 1992 - Transit Camp for Deportation Trains Westerbork
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General Description : The Westerbork transit camp (Dutch: Kamp Westerbork, German: Durchgangslager Westerbork) was a World War II Nazi refugee, detention and transit camp in Hooghalen, ten kilometres north of Westerbork, in the northeastern Netherlands. Its function during the Second World War was to assemble Romani and Dutch Jews for transport to other Nazi concentration camps.

On 15 December 1938, the Dutch government closed its border to refugees. From then on, any refugees would not have any rights. In 1939, the Dutch government erected a refugee camp, Centraal Vluchtelingenkamp Westerbork, financed, ironically, partly by Dutch Jewry, in order to absorb fleeing Jews from Nazi Germany. The Jewish refugees were housed after they had tried in vain to escape Nazi terror in their homeland. During World War II, the Nazis took over the camp and turned it into a deportation camp. From this camp, 101,000 Dutch Jews and about 5,000 German Jews were deported to their deaths in Occupied Poland. In addition, there were about 400 Gypsies in the camp and, at the very end of the War, some 400 women from the resistance movement.

Between July 1942 and September 1944, almost every Tuesday a cargo train left for the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau (65 train-loads containing 60,330 people most of whom were gassed on arrival), Sobibór (19 train-loads of 34,313 people, all of whom were killed on arrival), Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt (9 train-loads of 4,894 people some 2,000 of whom survived the war). In the period from 1942 to 1945, a total of 107,000 people passed through the camp on a total of 93 outgoing trains. Only 5,200 of them survived, most of them in Theresienstadt or Bergen-Belsen, or were liberated at Westerbork.
Face value 70 Cent
Catalog code (Michel) NL 1445
Catalog code (Scott) NL 816
Catalog code Yvert et Tellier NL 1409 Stanley Gibbons NL 1649 AFA number NL 1450 NVPH NL 1531 Unificato NL 1415
Stamp colour black, white, blue, red
Stamp use Commemorative stamp
Print run 9.573.650
Issue date 25/08/1992
Designer Victor Levie
Paper type phosphorescent paper
Print technique Offset lithography
Printed by Joh. Enschedé
Perforation 12¾ x 13¼
Height 37.00 mm
Width 26.00 mm
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