Westerbork

A brief snippet from Hillesum's diary, from July 1942, when she was held/working in Westerbork, the Dutch transit camp from which Dutch and German Jews were deported to Auschwitz:

Concert Review: An Unfinished Life da_lj 2007

Loekie de Wind, a Dutch cousin whose Jewish father was suddenly arrested in the summer of 1944 during a razzia raid and later shipped on what would be the last train to Auschwitz out a of the Nazi transit camp of Westerbork, has suspicions that someone betrayed her father, but she told me, "I don't know and I shall never know."

Dorian de Wind: This Yom HaShoah: Closure or Anguish for Families of Dutch Holocaust Victims? Dorian de Wind 2011

Loekie de Wind, a Dutch cousin whose Jewish father was suddenly arrested in the summer of 1944 during a razzia raid and later shipped on what would be the last train to Auschwitz out a of the Nazi transit camp of Westerbork, has suspicions that someone betrayed her father, but she told me, "I don't know and I shall never know."

Dorian de Wind: This Yom HaShoah: Closure or Anguish for Families of Dutch Holocaust Victims? Dorian de Wind 2011

We made the Planetary walk at the radio telescope (was that at Westerbork?) and at one point we passed some kind of swamp.

mosquito bite tally nathreee 2010

Loekie de Wind, a Dutch cousin whose Jewish father was suddenly arrested in the summer of 1944 during a razzia raid and later shipped on what would be the last train to Auschwitz out a of the Nazi transit camp of Westerbork, has suspicions that someone betrayed her father, but she told me, "I don't know and I shall never know."

Dorian de Wind: This Yom HaShoah: Closure or Anguish for Families of Dutch Holocaust Victims? Dorian de Wind 2011

They had refused to go into hiding and were eventually caught and transported to Westerbork concentration camp.

Hans Keilson interview: "Genius? I'm not even a proper writer!" Philip Oltermann 2010

Time's passage was marked by the change in light that filtered through the gaps in the wooden walls; the moonlight streaming through the frigid air marking the third night together since leaving Westerbork.

En Pointe 2009

It ends on October 8, shortly before her return to Westerbork.

Etty Hillesum. 2009

No doubt aided by her religious faith and in spite of failing health, Hillesum survived Westerbork until September 7, 1943, when she, her parents and her brother Mischa were put on a transport to Auschwitz.

Etty Hillesum. 2009

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941 – 1943, and Letters from Westerbork.

Holocaust Literature. 2009