Boulevard des Misères : the story of transit camp Westerbork

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Label

Boulevard des Misères : the story of transit camp Westerbork

Title remainder

the story of transit camp Westerbork

Statement of responsibility

Jacob Boas

Creator

• Boas, Jacob

Subject

• Durchgangslager Westerbork
• Ethnic relations
• Geschichte
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Netherlands
• Interneringskampen
• Jews -- Persecutions
• 1939-1945
• Netherlands
• Netherlands -- Ethnic relations
• Westerbork (Concentration camp)
• Westerbork (Concentration camp)
• Westerbork -- Durchgangslager
• Jews -- Persecutions -- Netherlands

Language

eng

Summary

Westerbork, in the north of Holland, was built in 1939 for the internment of German Jewish refugees, but with the Nazi occupation it became the central camp for Jews awaiting deportation to concentration camps (104,000 of Holland's 140,000 Jews passed through there). Describes daily life and the social structure; the behavior of the German commander, Albert Konrad Gemmeker; the role of the chief administrator, the German Jew Kurt Schlesinger, and of the Jewish camp police. also deals with the activities of Friedrich Weinreb, who swindled money out of Jews marked for deportation and was later convicted for collaboration. The author was born in the camp in November 1943; the book's title is derived from the name of the main street which traversed Westerbork. Based on archival research, including diaries, especially by Philip Mechanicus and Etty Hillesum. Refers to a film on Westerbork, made on behalf of Gemmeker.

Assigning source

(From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

D805.N4

LC item number

B63 1985

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography