Statistics often make me uneasy. Stripped of context, they can be twisted to tell a misleading story—and it frequently is.
Yet, there are moments when numbers, stark and raw, help us grasp the scale of events too vast for words alone. It is one of those moments.
Between July 15, 1942, and September 13, 1944, the Nazis deported a total of 107,000 Jewish men, women, and children from Westerbork, a transit camp in the Netherlands. They sent them to other camps across Europe, primarily in the East. For most, these journeys ended in the death camps.
One hundred and seven thousand lives crammed into 97 transports. That’s an average of around 1,103 souls per train. Pause and reflect on that for a moment—on the sheer inhumanity of reducing lives to numbers.
Now, let that settle further: 107,000 is just 1.6% of the estimated six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
75% of those 107,000 were Murdered
Numbers like these aren’t just statistics—they are a chilling reminder of the unfathomable scale of human loss. Each digit represents a name, a face, a family, or a story cut short.
Sources
https://www.jewishgen.org/forgottencamps/camps/westeng.html
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