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Bookmark or Share- transit camps | Holocaust EncyclopediaCzech Jews are deported from Bauschovitz to Theresienstadt ghetto. We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies, Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation, the Claims Conference, EVZ, and BMF for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. View the list of donor acknowledgement.
- Jews in Auschwitz / Categories of prisoners ... - Auschwitz-BirkenauFrom May to October 1944, tens of thousands of Jews, mostly from Hungary and Poland, were held in separate parts of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp defined as transit camps (Durchgangslager) without being registered individually.
- Westerbork | Holocaust EncyclopediaFrom 1942 to 1945, Westerbork was a transit camp (Durchgangslager) located in the German-occupied Netherlands. As a transit camp, Westerbork served as a temporary collection point for Jews in the Netherlands prior to their deportation by the Germans to killing centers and concentration camps in the east.
- Theresienstadt: Concentration/Transit Camp for German and Austrian ...Theresienstadt was a concentration camp and a transit camp en route to the killing centers in the east. At peak capacity, in September 1942, Theresienstadt held approximately 60,000 prisoners crammed into an area with streets barely over 700 yards long.
- Transit camps – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schoolsTransit camps were camps where prisoners were briefly detained prior to deportation to other Nazi camps. Following the start of the Second World War, the Nazis occupied a number of countries. Here, they implemented antisemitic and racial policies as they had done in Germany.
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