Sellingerbeetse

Sellingerbeetse (Gronings: Beetse) is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen.

Near the village are the remains of internment camp Kamp de Beetse, in use between 1935 and 1948, where it served several housing purposes.

From January 1942, during the Second World War, the German military housed several hundreds Jews from Amsterdam, who were transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1942 where many died.

Later in 1944, when the southern part of the Netherlands were liberated, it temporally housed members from the NSB, who as collaborators with the Germans had fled to the north.

It contains a lake, the Beetserplas (Gronings: Beetser koeln), formed as the result of intensive excavations and popular for recreation.