Queen Juliana, of Holland, will unveil a memorial tablet at the former Dutch concentration camp at Westerbork in May, commemorating the liberation of Holland from Nazi occupation 25 years ago. Westerbork was a way station through which over 100,000 Dutch Jews passed en route to the death camps of Auschwitz. Sobibor, Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt.
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