Camp Westerbork 25 cents (PL1230.2.a1) 

• 1944 
• Netherlands, the 
• Gulden 0,25 (25 Cent) 
• Germany - Occupied areas WW2 

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Banknotes

Camp Westerbork 25 cents (PL1230.2.a1)

Geen watermerk

1944

Tandwiel

106 x 52/53 mm

Shown picture, catalogue nr: PL1230.2.a1 Serie AA, BB, CC and no watermark Signature: Gemmeker Westerbork voucher, value 25 cents. This scrip was issued in Westerbork transit camp beginning February 15, 1944. Inmates were not allowed to have currency, which was confiscated. The vouchers [gutschein] were distributed as an incentive for doing work in four denominations: 10, 25, 50, and 100 cents. Netherlands was occupied by Germany in May 1940. The camp, in northeast Holland, was originally set up by the Dutch in 1939 to intern Jewish refugees. In July 1942, the German security police and the SS turned it into a transit camp to hold prisoners before deporting them to concentration camps in the east, where most perished. From July 1942 - September 3, 1944. nearly 200,000 Jews were deported from the camp. Most inmates had short stays at the camp. However, there were about 2000 longterm detainees who helped run the camp or were exempt from deportation. The vouchers were used with this population, most of whom were deported before the camp was liberated on April 12, 1945.