Transport from Westerbork, Camp, The Netherlands to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 23/02/1943

On Tuesday, February 23, the 51st 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 comprised 25 cars and carried 1,101 deportees. According to Guus Luijters, the author of ‘In Memoriam’, a work dedicated to the deported and murdered children from the Netherlands, there were 110 children on this transport. The youngest was born on November 23, 1942. The oldest deportee was born in April, 1852. The train from Westerbork to Auschwitz passed through Beilen, Winschoten and Nieuweschans in the Netherlands where it crossed the German border and usually continued through Bremen, Hamburg (or Hannover) and Berlin and then through Liegnitz (Legnica), Breslau (Wroclaw), Oppeln (Opole), Cosel (Koźle) and Kattowitz (Katowice), until it arrived at the extermination camp....