Mechelen transit camp
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mechelen-transit-camp-200-14590773
title:
Mechelen transit camp
text:
The Mechelen transit camp, officially SS-Sammellager Mecheln in German, also known as the Dossin barracks, was a detention and deportation camp established in a former army barracks at Mechelen in German-occupied Belgium. It served as a point to gather Belgian Jews and Romani ahead of their deportation to concentration and extermination camps in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust. The camp was established in March 1942 and was the only transit camp in Belgium. It was managed by the Sicherheitsp
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description:
Former Nazi transit camp and a current museum in Belgium
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechelen_transit_camp
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date modified:
2024-02-13T08:21:09Z
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