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In the Westerbork punishment barracks

From 8 August to 3 September 1944, the people in hiding were locked up in the Westerbork transit camp. As arrested people in hiding, they were regarded as punishment cases and were locked up in the punishment barracks, a closed-off section of Westerbork.

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Aug. 8, 1944 - Sept. 3, 1944

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The people in hiding ended up in Punishment Barrack 67 after their registration.[1] The barrack was separated into men's and women's sections, but after working hours the men and women could see each other.[2]

The punishment barracks were guarded by the Ordedienst (Order Department - OD) and were separated from the rest of the camp with barbed wire. Since the regime for punishment cases had been tightened in early August 1944, the prisoners were not allowed to receive visits from the other part of the camp, to visit the camp hospital or to send or receive letters or parcels.[3]

Punishment cases were generally put on the next transport. This also applied to Anne and the other people in hiding, who were put on the 3 September 1944 transport to Auschwitz.[4] They were given back their own clothes and luggage. When Anne Frank, her family and the other people in hiding were deported to Auschwitz, they had been in Westerbork for 26 days.

Footnotes

  1. ^  Collectie Herinneringscentrum Westerbork (HCKW): Brief van Bram Asscher aan familie Tollenaar, 25 augustus 1944; Nederlands Rode Kruis (NRK), Den Haag, dossiernummer 117266: Joodsche-Raadkaart Anne Frank.
  2. ^ Bas von Benda-Beckmann, Na het Achterhuis. Anne Frank en de andere onderduikers in de kampen, Amsterdam: Querido, 2020, p. 76.
  3. ^ HCKW: Lagerbefehl Nr. 86 en 87.
  4. ^ NRK, Collectie Westerbork, transportlijst 3 september 1944.

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