German occupation authorities deported the first group of Dutch Jews from Westerbork to Auschwitz. Dutch police and administrative bodies participated in the machinery of arrest and deportation; the...
A coordinated roundup took place in at least 19 Dutch municipalities, on caravan sites and elsewhere in towns and villages. Police arrested 578 Sinti, Roma, and Travellers. Of these, 245 were deported...
Three days after the nationwide roundup, 245 Sinti and Roma were deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only about 30 returned, according to the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and...
