Transport from Westerbork, Camp, The Netherlands to Buchenwald, Camp, Germany on 14/07/1944

On July 13, 1944, Wilhelm Zöpf, head of Department for Jewish Affairs (Referat IVb4) in the Netherlands, cabled Alfred Konrad Gemmeker, commander of Westerbork, instructing him to transfer Max Kampelmacher (b. June 17, 1902 in Siret, Romania) to the prison in Scheveningen the next day for the purpose of deportation to Buchenwald. The transport, Zöpf added, would depart from The Hague at 18:00 for Buchenwald. That day, another cable was sent from Zöpf’s office to the commander of Buchenwald, stating that although Kampelmacher had committed no offense, he was being sent to Buchenwald as a Romanian national after the “Operation Repatriation”. The other deportee, Dr. Andries Kaas (b. February 5, 1908, in Alkmaar) in contrast, whom the Nazis defined as a “first-degree Mischlinge” (a person who had two Jewish grandparents), had committed the crime of belonging to a resistance organization that aided Jewish refugees, financing the organization, and administering its budget. What is more, Kaas had personally hidden a Jewish child and Hanns Albin Rauter, Higher SS- and Police-leader (HSSPF, Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer) in the Netherlands, had ordered his deportation. According to the cable sent to the commander of Buchenwald, both Jews were to reach the camp on the afternoon of July 15 under the supervision of SS-Hauptscharführer Wies and SS-Unterscharführer Weygand....