A national monument to the memory of the 100,000 Dutch Jews who passed through the former concentration camp of Westerbrook en route to the extermination camps of Hitler’s Germany and Poland will be erected at the Wester-brook camp site, it was announced today.
The plan was disclosed by Dr. Jan Cramer, governor of the Drente province, at a meeting here in behalf of Israel Bonds.
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