Other deportation centres
In Amsterdam, apart from the Hollandsche
Schouwburg, the Germans designated other locations for assembling
Jews before deportation. When the transports from the Netherlands
had just started, in July 1942, Amsterdam Jews had to report at the
city's Central Station, for immediate deportation. In 1943 Jews
were sent on immediate transport from Polderweg close to
Muiderpoort Station, and from the Borneo and Panama Quays in the
city's eastern harbour district, Zeeburg aan het IJ. There was also
the Zentralstelle für jüdische
Auswanderung (Central bureau for Jewish emigration), which
like the Hollandsche Schouwburg was used as assembly point both for
immediate transport and deferred deportation.
In The Hague the Jewish
Home (Joodsch Tehuis) at 27 Paviljoensgracht became the
assembly point for Jews of The Hague. They would be kept here for
several hours, or sometimes several days, until the number 13 tram
conveyed them at night to waiting trains at the city station (now
called Central Station). Jews from The Hague would
sometimes be deported directly from the station. In Rotterdam the
designated place was in the harbour district, in one of the
warehouses - number 24. This location was close to a railway line.
Almost all the Jews deported from Rotterdam left from this point.
There were assembly points elsewhere in the Netherlands, and Jews
were also deported straight from local police stations.
