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10 Cent Westerbork Transit Camp
| Issuer | Lager Westerbork |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress on light lavender paper with a simple geometric border design. The denomination "10 CENT" appears in bold block lettering in the upper-left and lower-right corners, with "LAGER WESTERBORK" and "GUTSCHEIN" inscribed in large block capitals across the upper centre panel, separated by a wave-pattern guilloche band. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Westerbork, located in the northeastern Netherlands, functioned as a transit point through which over 100,000 Jews, Roma, and Sinti were deported to Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Bergen-Belsen between 1942 and 1944. The camp scrip — issued in denominations from 1 cent to 1 guilder — was imposed on inmates as a control mechanism, forcing all internal transactions through a currency that had no validity anywhere outside the wire. Wages paid to prisoners for forced labor were denominated in it.
The watermark is an unusual feature for camp currency and distinguishes the Westerbork series from most other Nazi-administered camp scrip.