A private, genuinely serious day trip to real Camp Westerbork, a real WWII transit camp.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at the genuine Camp Westerbork WWII transit camp and Kamp Amersfoort.
This is a private tour for your group only, handled plainly and respectfully. Real stops include the genuine Camp Westerbork, a real WWII transit camp from which over 100,000 people were deported, and Kamp Amersfoort.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Amsterdam.
Genuine, significant WWII history.
Real historical education.
8-9 hours, just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at the genuine Camp Westerbork WWII transit camp and Kamp Amersfoort. This is a private tour for your group only, handled plainly and respectfully. Real stops include the genuine Camp Westerbork, a real WWII transit camp from which over 100,000 people were deported, and Kamp Amersfoort.
Camp Westerbork's own history contains a genuine, bitter irony. The Dutch government built it in the summer of 1939 as a refugee camp, specifically to house German and Austrian Jews who had already fled Nazi persecution before the war even reached the Netherlands. That original purpose collapsed the moment Germany invaded in May 1940.
Under German occupation, Westerbork was repurposed into the main transit camp in the Netherlands, the staging point from which Dutch Jews, along with Sinti and Roma people, were put on trains bound mostly for Auschwitz and Sobibór. More than 100,000 people passed through the camp and were deported to their deaths — among them Anne Frank's own family, who were held at Westerbork after their arrest before being placed on one of the last transports to Auschwitz, which left on September 3, 1944.
Kamp Amersfoort, the second stop on this tour, tells a related but genuinely different story. Officially a police transit camp rather than a Jewish deportation point, it operated from 1941 to 1945 and held mostly political prisoners and members of the Dutch resistance, who were sent from there to camps like Buchenwald and Mauthausen — a reminder that the occupation's machinery of imprisonment and deportation touched more than one group, through more than one kind of camp.
This is handled as the serious subject it is — a plain, factual visit to real, preserved historical sites, not a sensationalized or dramatized one, with a private guide who treats the history and the site itself with the respect they warrant.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.