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The Netherlands: Maps

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Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940 and established a civilian administration dominated by the SS.

Low Countries, 1933 [LCID: ben19010] — Item View

Occupied western Europe, 1940 [LCID: fra86130] — Item View

Amsterdam environs, 1942 [LCID: ams49020] — Item View

Amsterdam, 1942 [LCID: ams39040] — Item View

Nazi camps in the Low Countries, 1940-1945 [LCID: ben72030] — Item View

Westerbork environs, 1942 [LCID: wes42040] — Item View

Westerbork transit camp, 1942 [LCID: wes22030] — Item View

Anne Frank: Amsterdam and deportation [LCID: ams78050] — After the Nazis came to power in January 1933, Otto Frank (Anne Frank’s father) left Frankfurt, Germany, for Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. The rest of the Frank family soon followed. Anne was the last family member to arrive in Amsterdam in February 1934. In July 1942, German authorities began systematically deporting Jews from throughout the Netherlands to concentration camps and killing centers in the east. That same month, the Frank family went into hiding. They remained in hiding for the next two years. The German SS and police discovered the Frank family in 1944 and deported them to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Later that year, Anne and her sister Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Anne and Margot died in Bergen-Belsen in February or March 1945.
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Major deportations to killing centers, 1942-1944 [LCID: eur78940] — This map shows some of the major deportations of Jews from all over Europe to Nazi killing centers in 1942–1944. It depicts transports from transit camps, ghettos, and major cities. Most Jews on these transports were murdered in gas chambers upon their arrival at the killing centers. The Nazis and their allies and collaborators coordinated these deportations as part of the “Final Solution”—the Nazi plan to murder all of Europe’s Jews

On this map, the Majdanek camp is marked as a killing center. In the past, many scholars counted Majdanek (located just outside the city of Lublin) as a sixth killing center. However, based on newer research, Majdanek is usually classified as a concentration camp (officially Konzentrationslager Lublin).
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Major deportations from the Low Countries, 1942-1944 [LCID: ben78040] — Item View

Last Edited: Jan 13, 2018

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