The National Archives will make three thousand items from the Red Cross War Archives publicly available. It contains details about the occupation of Camp Westerbork during the Second World War, especially important for researchers.
About three thousand items from the War Archives of the Red Cross will be publicly accessible from 25 April. This concerns archival documents that can no longer invade other people’s privacy or that relate to people who are no longer alive.
The documents that will be made public contain extensive archives about Camp Westerbork. The train timetable, lists of children who died in the camp shortly after their birth and the organization of the camp. “Documents about the camp strength, in which the occupier meticulously noted each week how many people entered and were deported. The horrors of the Holocaust behind meticulous statistics and colorful graphs,” reports the National Archives.
Remembrance Center Kamp Westerbork is pleased that many documents are being made public. “Not just for us, but also for other researchers,” says curator Guido Abuys. However, a large part of the archive is already known to the remembrance center. “We have a copy of part of the released archive for internal use and research. We will have to look at what has now been released and what information it provides. Whether we can answer more research questions better remains to be seen. “