80: Westerbork

80 years ago today (April 12, 1945) Canadian Forces liberated the Westerbork Transit Camp in the Netherlands.

876 Inmates were liberated by the Canadians in Westerbork.

(Jewish Inmates celebrating Chanukah in Westerbork in 1943.)

It is the Camp Anne Frank was sent to after being arrested while Hiding and before being sent to the Auschwitz Death Camp.

Every Tuesday Cattle Cars arrived in Westerbork and sent Men, Women and Children to either the Auschwitz Death Camp or the Sobibor Death Camp both in German-Occupied Poland.

97,776 Jewish Men, Women and Children were deported to their deaths from July 1942 to September 1944.

Less than 5,000 of the 97,776 deported from Westerbork survived the War,

Anne Frank and her Family were deported on the last Cattle Car Train to leave Westerbork for Auschwitz on September 4, 1944.

The National Westerbork Memorial was unveiled at the site by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands on May 4, 1970.