In the museum, you will discover the story of Camp Westerbork through personal narratives. Camp Westerbork is the story of one life taken - repeated 102,000 times. The temporary exhibition and the portacabin explore different themes within this history, offering ever-changing perspectives on the many layers of the camp’s past.
The permanent exhibition at the Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre tells the story of the site of Kamp Westerbork through personal accounts. These include stories of people who were deported via Camp Westerbork, as well as those of guards, train drivers, neighbours and people who helped Jews go into hiding or escape.
The temporary exhibition is located in the space adjacent to the permanent exhibition. From February 2026, the exhibition Maria Austria was here will be on display here. It features photographs from her body of work: the Schattenberg photographs, photographs from the Second World War and its aftermath, and photographs of music and theatre. In addition, two projections tell the story of both families: the Jewish Oestreicher family, with Maria Austria as the central figure, and the Moluccan Wairata family, with Otto as the central figure.
Outside on the square in front of the museum stands a small outbuilding: the port-a-cabin. Temporary exhibitions are held here several times a year. From March 2026, a virtual reality exhibition based on the Westerbork film will be on display here. See through the eyes of filmmaker Werner Rudolf Breslauer (1903) in this VR experience of Camp Westerbork in the spring of 1944. See where he shot the footage for the Westerbork film and learn more about the how and why of the film.
