Editing Westerbork transit camp (section)

===Notable prisoners===
[[File:Westerbork, a school in the camp.jpg|left|thumb|Class photo from the school within Westerbork]]
Notable prisoners in Westerbork included [[Anne Frank]], who was transported to Camp Westerbork on 8 August 1944,<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Aftermath|last=Prose|first=Francine|publisher=Harper Collins|year=2009|location=New York, New York|pages=53–59}}</ref> as well as [[Etty Hillesum]], each of whom wrote of their experiences in diaries discovered after the war.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|title=Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum Inscribing Spirituality and Sexuality|last=De Costa|first=Denise|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=1998|isbn=0813525500|location=New Brunswick, New Jersey|pages=167–191}}</ref> Frank remained at the camp in a small hut until 3 September, when she was deported to Auschwitz.<ref name=":3" />

Hillesum was able to avoid the Nazi dragnet that identified Jews until April 1942.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Hanan |first=Frenk |date=31 December 1999 |title=Etty Hillesum |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hillesum-etty |access-date=20 April 2018 |website=Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. [[Jewish Women's Archive]]}}</ref> Even after being labeled a Jew, she began to report on [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] policies. She took a job with [[Judenrat]] for two weeks and then volunteered to accompany the first group of Jews sent to Westerbork.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /> Hillesum stayed at Westerbork until 7 September 1943, when she was deported to Auschwitz, where she was killed three months later.<ref name=":5" />

[[File:Hut-AnneFrank-Westerbork.jpg|thumb|Parts of a rebuilt hut at Westerbork, which once held Anne Frank]]
Camp Westerbork also housed German film actress and cabaret singer [[Dora Gerson]] who was interned there with her family before being sent to Auschwitz and Professor Sir [[William Asscher]] who survived the camp when his mother secured his family's release by fabricating English ancestry. [[Jona Oberski]] wrote of his experience as a small child at Westerbork in his book, ''Kinderjaren'' ("Childhood"), published in the Netherlands in 1978 and later made into the film, ''[[Jonah Who Lived in the Whale]]''.

[[Maurice Frankenhuis]] chronicled his family's experiences while interned in Westerbork and in 1948 conducted an interview with its Commander Albert Konrad Gemmeker while Gemmeker awaited trial. The published interview in Dutch and English became the basis for a docudrama created in September 2019.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dvhn.nl/drenthe/midden-drenthe/Premi%C3%A8re-korte-speelfilm-Gemmeker-met-historische-transportbeelden-in-kleur-24815045.html|title=Première korte speelfilm Gemmeker met historische transport beelden in kleur|date=September 12, 2019|language=nl}}</ref> The film features colorization of original video of transports from Westerbork by photographer [[Rudolf Breslauer]].

Another prisoner at Camp Westerbork from 9 March 1944 to 23 March 1944 was [[Hans Mossel]] (1905–1944), a Jewish-[[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[clarinet]]ist and [[Saxophone|saxophonist]], before he was sent to the [[Monowitz concentration camp|Auschwitz III camp]].<ref>[https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/archive/1-2-4-2_1242013/?p=1&doc_id=130344735 Information on the deportation of Hans Mossel via the Arolson online archives.]</ref>

On 16 May 2024, a memorial was erected to remember the famous Sinti families [[:nl:Tata Mirando|Weiss]] (Tata Mirando) and Meinhardt, who lost some 200 members of their families to the Holocaust, transported from Westerbork camp to [[Auschwitz-Birkenau]].