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| Keywords: Buchenwald Prisoners 83718.jpg Dutch Jews wearing prison uniforms marked with a yellow star and the letter N for Netherlands stand at attention during a roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp See also w/s 59007 On February 28 1941 389 Jewish prisoners from Amsterdam and Rotterdam many of them working class longshoremen arrived in Buchenwald All were immediately sent to work in the quarry and on construction projects which led many to soon fall ill from exhaustion exposure and poor diet Regardless of the deaths camp leaders still considered the liquidation of the Dutch Jews to be proceeding too slowly and ordered the camp doctor Eisele to close the infirmary to Dutch Jews expelling the bedridden or killing them by lethal injection Physicians among the transport were forced to perform clandestine medical procedures at night under primitive conditions On May 22 the remaining 341 Dutch Jews were transferred to Gusen Photographed by Exter Buchenwald Thuringia Germany February 28 1941 http //www ushmm org/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum courtesy of Gedenkstaette Buchenwald <nowiki><nowiki></nowiki> PD-USGov Prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp The Holocaust in the Netherlands The Holocaust 1941 yellow badge Images from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Cloth armbands | ||||
