Transport from Westerbork, Camp, The Netherlands to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 24/07/1942

On 24 July, 1942 a further mass transport left Westerbork transit camp for Auschwitz-Birkenau. Jews in Amsterdam who had received a call-up notice for the deportation, were summoned to register at the Zentralstelle at Adama van Scheltemaplein. Here they would also get information on the departure of the train. The Hollandse (Joodse) Schouwburg, a former theater that served as an assembly point during the deportations from the Netherlands. Head of the Zentralstelle Ferdinand Hugo van der Fünten was in charge of the site. After a certain time, the deportees, who were kept at the Schouwburg were marched from there to Amsterdam Central Station, from where they would depart for Westerbork transit camp....