Transport from Westerbork, Camp, The Netherlands to Bergen Belsen, Camp, Germany on 05/04/1944

On April 5, 1944 another transport left Westerbork for Bergen-Belsen. The transport list records 101 men, women and children. There were 39 children under the age of 18 among the deportees. The youngest deportee was not even 3 months old when she was shipped away with her parents and her sister. All kinds of professions were represented among the deportees listed, including diamond workers, most of whom were deported on the next transport to Bergen-Belsen on May 19, 1944. It is to be assumed that the transport took the following route: It passed Groningen and the border into Germany at Nieuweschans, where the engine of the Dutch Railway was exchanged for one from the German Reichsbahn. Then it continued through Germany via Leer, Emden and Oldenburg, and drove south passing Hannover, Lehrte and Celle before stopping near Bergen....