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pieter_jan_v Says: The Museum van Papierknipkunst displays the history of paper cutting arts.Originally a Chinese art form, paper cutting spread over Europe during the Middle Ages.The oldest Dutch art on display dates from the 17th century by Anne Marie Schuurmann.The collection is an...
Xowe Says: In westerbork you will find 14 radio-telescopes that are, if Im not mistaken, still working. There are 2 different routes to choose from. The 1st will be direct to the WSRT and the 2nd is an educative route through the woods, along the so-called Milky way-lane.
pieter_jan_v Says: The surroundings of Westerbork are ideal for cycling.To the North are the Westerbork Sterrewacht and the former WWII prison camp Kamp Westerbork.
Xowe Says: If you walk from the parking to the Radio-telescopes you can follow the "Milky-Way"-lane. Along this path you will find all different kind of signs with explenations about different planets like Venus, Mecure, Earth, Pluto etc.How many times bigger .. how many moons ....
** Visit Memorial-Center Westerbork **
Xowe Says: This memorial-Center will take you back in time and will tell you the story of 102.000 people who were transported to extermination camps elswere and who never came back....I must say its not a nice place to go but somehowe I feel everyone should have been there just once in...
Radiotelescopes, the European assembly
Pavlik_NL Says: Together we stand strong also counts for radio telscopes. In Westerbork 11 telescopes are standing in a row and follow exactly eachothers movements. This technique is called "interferometrie" and is also possible over larger distances. In European cooperation many telescopes...
Radiotelescopes, the Westerbork aray
Pavlik_NL Says: Astronomers want to map the universe. this can be done by "lens"-telescopes (visual), but as well by radiotelescopes (radiowaves). These waves are caught by the dishes of which the parabolic shape centres the waves into the core and herewith emplify it. The detectors...
Camp Westerbork, on the way out (part 7)
Pavlik_NL Says: When leaving the camp mark the stone with the text in four languages that lays next to a small information pavillion. This stone is cut out the mountains near Jeruzalem.After the war the camp was used for about three years as prisonners camp for traitors and NSB-ers (similar...
Camp Westerbork, entrance to the camp (part 2)
Pavlik_NL Says: In front of the gates to the camp Westerbork there are five stones, looking like coffins or gravestones. On them the names of the concentration camps that were connected to this transport camp (Durchgangs Lager) and the number of jews (but also some other by the Nazi regime...
Camp Westerbork, national monument (part 6)
Pavlik_NL Says: The second part of the national monument within the camp is a wide open space that has been filled with groups of small stones that in an areal view appear to be the map of the Netherlands. Each group of the in total 102.000 stones, stands for a province and the small...
Camp Westerbork, national monument (part 5)
Pavlik_NL Says: Maybe most impressive within the now-a-days quite empty camp Westerbork are the two items that make up the national monument. On the farthest side the last remaining pieces of the rail road track form the first part of this commemoration site. The tracks are bent and broken,...
Camp Westerbork, within the camp (part 4)
Pavlik_NL Says: Within the camp there were various parts. Small factories let the prisonners work under poor circumstances. In a corner of the camp were the penal barrracks, surrounded by even more barb wire. Here the jews that had hide from the Nazi's were punished for that fact and often...
Camp Westerbork, within the camp (part 3)
Pavlik_NL Says: In 1939 the dutch governement ordered a camp built in Westerbork to shelter the many jews that entered the Netherlands seeking refugee here from Germany. After the invasion the Germans immediately took control of it and turned it into a transport camp (Durchgangs Lager) by...
Camp Westerbork, visitor centre and start (part 1)
Pavlik_NL Says: When arriving at the visitor centre, the actual camp is still asbout 2,5 kilometres away. The visitor centre has a complete exposition that tells about what happened here in Westerbork during the second world war. this is done with stories, pictures and items, which in total...
Camp Westerbork Memorial Museum
catnl Says: The memorial museum is opened from 10-17 hrs and in the weekend from 11-17 hrs.For people who are interested in WWII or in history about jewish people in Holland its an impressive trip.The camp is only reachable by foot or bike, or by special bus Entrance of the Camp is...
By bus from the museum to the Camp
catnl Says: There is a bussercide every 20 minutes this bus leaves from the Museum to the Camp and to the radiotelescopes.Price 1,25 euro per person. it takes about 5 min by bus, on foot 1-2 hours.
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Xowe Says: This shuttle bus will take you from the parking at the museum to the entrance of the Camp Westerbork. You could also walk to the Camp via the "Milky-way"and take the shuttle bus back. Its a good solution for anyone who cannot walk that far.It will cost you : € 1,25 one way
Pavlik_NL Says: Wetsrebork itself is a small village that lays in the middle of the province of Drenthe. The actual must sees are however not closest to Westerbork, but in the vicinity of Hooghalen. Anyway, roadsigns are pointing you in the right direction when you take the exit "Beilen"...
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Though the former camp and the radiotelescopes are on manucipality soil of Westerbork, the actual village is about 11 kilometres away from the visitor centre. Westerbork is an average little place within the agricultural landscape of mid-Drenthe. A pleasant countryside with large farms surrounded by their fields and acres, as well as here and there some forestry and heatherfields. The surroundings are popular by campers, that enjoy the peace and quiet of this area in the Netherlands.
Westerbork even offers the visitor a small and funny museum: the "Knipsel" museum. Here one can see many items over about 300 years of paper cutting art. The museum offers a funny few hours when the weather is driving you indoors.
Updated Mar 14, 2005
Website: http://members1.chello.nl/~a.benschop/hoofdpagina_knippen.htm
Favorite thing: When at the end of the 30's in the 20st century, jews felt less and less at home in Germany, large numbers started crossing the border into the Netherlands, seeking refugee here. Some were provided shelter within the homes of family and friends, others were taken into refugee camps, such as Westerbork itself! In May 1940 Germany invaded the neutral Netherlands by force and after bombing Rotterdam the Dutch surrenders, prevending the same faith for Utrecht and Amsterdam. The jews that fled to the Netherlands were trapped, though some found hiding places created by Dutch families. The Westerbork camp fell almost immediately after the invasion (it's only 20 kilometres from the border) and the Nazi's turned it into a "Durchgangs Lager" (assembly and transportation camp). The horror started and though some Dutch fought hard against the Nazi's, the majority was silent and took care of their own business. Waiting for the liberation started and would last five dark years.
Fondest memory: After a visit to Westerbork you are impressed and silent. You learn a lot about how unbelievable horrible human being can be, as well as how weak they can follow someone that is evil itself. The combination with the radiotelescopes made me wonder whether extraterrestrial life would appreciate us for the things we are able to do. Westerbork is truely a place that makes you wonder about many things.
Updated Mar 14, 2005
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Peaceful village, with a dark history
Besides the village that is named Westerbork and the dreadful transport camp that was here during World War II, I would like to start my page about this place in the province Drenthe with something......
The concentration camp in Westerbork was used in World War II to accomodate jews, gypsys and others. These people were transported to camps more east.
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