Le camp de regroupement et de transit de Westerbork est un camp de détention nazi situé dans le nord-est des Pays-Bas. Utilisé pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale comme étape vers les camps d'extermination de Pologne occupée, il détenait environ 10 000 personnes après octobre 1942. Quelque 107 000 victimes dont Etty Hillesum, Anne Frank et Settela Steinbach sont passées par ce camp ou y sont décédées.
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Camp Westerbork, also known as Westerbork transit camp, was a Nazi transit camp in the province of Drenthe in the Northeastern Netherlands, during World War II. It was located in the municipality of Westerbork, current-day Midden-Drenthe. Camp Westerbork was used as a staging location for sending Jews, Sinti and Roma to concentration camps elsewhere.
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The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope is an aperture synthesis interferometer built on the site of the former World War II Nazi detention and transit camp Westerbork, north of the village of Westerbork, Midden-Drenthe, in the northeastern Netherlands.
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The 2023 European Road Cycling Championships was the 29th running of the European Road Cycling Championships, that took place from 20 to 24 September 2023 in the province of Drenthe, Netherlands. The event consisted of a total of 6 road races and 8 time trials.
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Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Overijssel to the south, Friesland to the west, Groningen to the north, and the German state of Lower Saxony to the east. As of January 2023, Drenthe had a population of about 502,000, and a total area of 2,680 km2.
Drenthe has been populated for 15,000 years. The region has subsequently been part of the Episcopal principality of Utrecht, Habsburg Netherlands, Dutch Republic, Batavian Republic, Kingdom of Holland and Kingdom of the Netherlands. Drenthe has been an official province since 1796. The capital and seat of the provincial government is Assen. The King's Commissioner of Drenthe is Jetta Klijnsma. The Farmer-Citizen Movement is the largest party in the States-Provincial, followed by the Labour Party and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.
Drenthe has the lowest population density in the European Netherlands. It is a predominantly rural area, unlike many other parts of the Netherlands; except for the small cities of Assen and Emmen, the land in Drenthe is mainly used for agriculture and it has a notable amount of forests and nature.
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Amen is a hamlet in the north-eastern Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Aa en Hunze in Drenthe and lies about 8 km south of Assen.
The hamlet has a population of around 90.
« Boue, détresse, maladie, promiscuité, angoisse, bruit, toute une société comprimée sur une superficie d'un demi-kilomètre carré : Westerbork. » (préface à l'édition néerlandaise de 1982 des lettres de Westerbork, J. G. Gaarlandt).