Transport from Westerbork, Camp, The Netherlands to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 16/02/1943

On Tuesday, February 16, the 50th mass transport from the Netherlands departed from Westerbork to 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 train in this transport comprised 25 cars and carried 1,108 deportees. According to Guus Luijters, the author of ‘In Memoriam’, a work dedicated to the deported and murdered children from the Netherlands, there were 207 children on this transport. The youngest was a baby boy born on December 29, 1942 in Westerbork....