![A view of the Westerbork camp, the Netherlands, between 1940 and 1945. [LCID: 41170]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/dc0cee21-a0cb-4379-a699-03d16ff11b11.jpg)
A view of the Westerbork camp, the Netherlands, between 1940 and 1945.
From 1942 to 1944 Westerbork served as a transit camp for Dutch Jews before they were deported to killing centers in German-occupied Poland.
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