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Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

December 1943, A Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony in the Westerbork transit camp, Netherlands

In October 1939, the Dutch government started to concentrate Jewish refugees who had fled from Nazi Germany in the Westerbork camp in the east Netherlands.  During the period of the Nazi occupation, Westerbork was a detainment camp for Jews throughout the Netherlands.  From summer 1942 to September 1944, the Germans deported some 100,000 Jews from Westerbork to concentration and extermination camps in eastern Europe.