Walking path old railway line Westerbork - Hooghalen
Opposite the entrance to the former Camp Westerbork and the Westerbork Memorial Centre, a footpath starts, on the other side of the road, into the woods. The path marks the approach route of the trains that transported people to the transit camp. These people were later almost all deported to German and Polish concentration and extermination camps. The walking route passes through the Drenthe nature of the Groote Zand.
The path runs between the former camp and the village of Hooghalen, where the old route branches off from the larger railway line between Meppel and Groningen. The stretch up to Hooghalen through the forest is the silent remnant of the end of the Westerborkpad. This long route of 340 kilometres runs from South Holland to the former Camp and symbolises the way Dutch Jews, Roma and Sinti travelled towards the camp, during World War II.
Walking path old railway line Westerbork
Oosthalen 6
9414 TG Hooghalen
Hooghalen
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