Qualla: Sellingerbeetse https://qualla.com/sellingerbeetse en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/j/sellingerbeetse-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sellingerbeetse https://qualla.com/sellingerbeetse Sellingerbeetse: Introduction https://qualla.com/sellingerbeetse/ Photo credit Martijn van Sabben, CC BY-SA 2.0. Between 1935 and 1948, the same small set of barracks near Sellingerbeetse held five different categories of human beings. The first were unemployed Dutchmen sent there to work during the Depression. The last were former Dutch Nazi collaborators awaiting trial after liberation. In between came a transport of Jews from Amsterdam who were held there before being sent to Auschwitz, then Dutch civilians compelled into farm labor, then NSB members fleeing the liberated southern Netherlands. One barrack is all that is left of Kamp de Beetse today.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/j/sellingerbeetse-wp/u1mj-sellingerbeetse-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sellingerbeetse: Five Walls, Five Purposes https://qualla.com/sellingerbeetse/ Photo credit Wouter Hagens, CC BY-SA 3.0. Kamp de Beetse opened in 1935 as a werkkamp for jobless Dutchmen during the Depression. The men cleared land, dug ditches, and worked the surrounding fields in exchange for room, board, and a small wage. In January 1942 the German occupiers repurposed the camp. Several hundred Je...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/j/sellingerbeetse-wp/u1mj-sellingerbeetse-five-walls-five-purposes.mp3 0:06 2 full Sellingerbeetse: What One Remaining Barrack Holds https://qualla.com/sellingerbeetse/ Photo credit Hardscarf, CC BY-SA 4.0. Only a single barrack still stands at the site. It is not much - a long, low wooden building with small windows, the kind of structure that could be assembled or dismantled in a week. But it carries the full weight of what happened there. The same wood that sheltered Depression-e...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/j/sellingerbeetse-wp/u1mj-sellingerbeetse-what-one-remaining-barrack-holds.mp3 0:06 3 full Sellingerbeetse: Opwaarts, Built in 1925 https://qualla.com/sellingerbeetse/ Photo credit Wauteurz, CC BY-SA 4.0. A decade before the camp, the village built a different kind of building. In 1925 the Dutch Reformed Church commissioned Opwaarts! - the name means Upwards! and the exclamation point is part of it - in the style of the Amsterdam School. The Amsterdam School was a Dutch architectu...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/j/sellingerbeetse-wp/u1mj-sellingerbeetse-opwaarts-built-in-1925.mp3 0:06 4 full Sellingerbeetse: The Lake That Excavators Made https://qualla.com/sellingerbeetse/ Photo credit Heemskerck Duker, W.F. van (Fotograaf), CC BY-SA 4.0. Just outside the village lies the Sellingerveld, an area of woods, heath, and water known as the field of Sellingen. Its centerpiece is the Beetserplas, called Beetser koeln in the Gronings dialect, a lake that did not exist a century ago. It formed when intensive excavation - pr...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/j/sellingerbeetse-wp/u1mj-sellingerbeetse-the-lake-that-excavators-made.mp3 0:06 5 full Sellingerbeetse: 210 People Now https://qualla.com/sellingerbeetse/ Photo credit Heemskerck Duker, W.F. van (Fotograaf), CC BY-SA 4.0. Today the core village has about 210 residents. Including the surrounding countryside the population rises to roughly 760. Sellingerbeetse lies five kilometers southwest of Sellingen and eight kilometers north of Ter Apel, in the southern part of the Westerwolde municipality form...

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