Westerbork Concentration Camp from Amsterdam by Private Car – Amsterdam, Netherlands

EXPERIENCE:

Camp Westerbork was a major transit hub for Jews, Sinti, Roma and other individuals sent by the Nazis to Auschwitz and other concentration camps in Europe. Join a Licensed Guide on a tour of the memorial site and museum to learn about the process of staging the ‘Final Solution’. Uncover new details about WWII and the Holocaust.

Choose the 8-hour option to visit the Westerbork Concentration Camp. The tour includes private transfers direct from your Amsterdam accommodation, plus the museum entrance fee and the service of the History Expert to guide your private group around the former campgrounds. Upon arrival at the barrier to Westerbork, you will explore the one-half square kilometer area that welcomed more than 102,000 Jews (and other races) on their way to the concentration and extermination camps in Auschwitz, Sobibór, Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen.

Compared to the camps built for the purpose of industrial murder, Camp Westerbork was considered by Nazi standards as “humane”, yet most of its prisoners like Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum, didn’t survive the war. During the tour you will learn about the daily life inside the camp, the Judenrat, and cultural activities organized by Nazis. See the original train tracks, the Monument of 102,000 stones, the National Westerbork Memorial, and more.

After a guided walk around Camp Westerbork, you will also have a chance to visit the memorial museum on your own. See a room filled with personal belongings of murdered Jews, the railway carriage sign reading “Westerbork – Auschwitz; Auschwitz – Westerbork”, and other touching exhibitions. It will be a thought provoking experience, but necessary to understand what had really happened to the Jews deported from ghettos from all over Europe.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Visit the Westerbork Concentration Camp with a 5-Stars History Expert Guide
Learn about the Holocaust and World War II in Holland
Hear the true story of Anne Frank and other deported Jews killed by the Nazis
Explore the former labor camp and the memorial museum
Take advantage of private car transfers from Amsterdam

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