This 345km cycling route is a living memorial on the former railway road between the Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen and the transit camp of Westerbork, the Netherlands. 

​Cycling this route means understanding the stories of the people who were deported from the Netherlands to the concentration camps in Germany. Where did they come from? Who were they? Where did they go?

​This route comes across monuments and Holocaust memorials and tells the stories of Jewish communities as well as resistance fighters who fought for their communities during the war. From Lower-Saxony to Drenthe, this cycling route crosses the Bergen Belsen Memorial, reaches Bremen, and passes the former Esterwegen-Papenburg concentration camp. Then, crosses the Dutch border in the province of Groningen, ending up in the Westerbork Memorial, in the forests of the province of Drenthe.  

The cycling tour enhances commemoration through a combination of physical activity, site visits, and increasing knowledge and awareness.