Transport from Westerbork, Camp, The Netherlands to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 08/12/1942

On Tuesday December 8, 1942, the 41th mass transport from the Netherlands departed from Westerbork for Auschwitz. During the period between July 24 1942 and March 10, 1943 old passenger trains were used to deport Jews from the Netherlands to Auschwitz. The Nederlandse Spoorwegen (the Dutch Railways) provided the trains and sent a bill for every transport to Wilhelm Harster. The Nederlandse Spoorwegen made an estimated profit of more than 400,000 Dutch guilders from the transports.The train comprised 11 cars and carried between 900 and 1,000 deportees. According to Guus Luijters, the author of ‘In Memoriam’, a work dedicated to the deported and murdered children from the Netherlands, the train comprised 11 cars and carried 927 deportees. There were 131 children on this transport....