Amsterdam to mark role of tram system in transportation of Jews to death camps

Anne Frank was taken by tram from Weteringschans prison, Amsterdam, on 8 August 1944. Photograph: AP

On 8 August 1944, an Amsterdam tram took Anne Frank from Weteringschans prison, past the “secret annexe” where she had hidden from the Nazis, on the start of a journey to her death.

It was one of a series of Dutch night trams that deported 48,000 Jewish Amsterdammers during the Holocaust, trams commissioned by the Nazis and paid for with the Jewish wealth they stole.