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    The Mechelen transit camp, officially SS-Sammellager Mecheln (lit. 'SS Assembly Camp Mechelen') in German, also known as the Dossin barracks, was a detention...
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    Lilly Appelbaum Malnik (category Auschwitz concentration camp survivors)
    imprisoned at the Mechelen transit camp in Belgium, Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland, and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. She...
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    Breendonk, a Nazi prison camp in German-occupied Belgium during World War II. For a year, he was also in charge of Mechelen transit camp but was dismissed for...
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    transported to Auschwitz concentration camp from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium, on the twentieth convoy from the camp. In the aftermath of the attack, a...
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  • 1795); one of the original Seventeen Provinces Mechelen transit camp, a detention and deportation camp operating during the Nazi occupation Maasmechelen...
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    concentration camps in Poland. Jews chosen from the registration lists were required to turn up at the newly established Mechelen transit camp; they were...
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    Kazerne Dossin Memorial, Museum and Documentation Centre (category Buildings and structures in Mechelen)
    former Mechelen transit camp of World War II, from which, in German-occupied Belgium, arrested Jews and Romani were sent to concentration camps. The aforementioned...
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    parents, Abraham Israel and Rachel Lamm, had been interned in the Mechelen transit camp in 1942. She had been liberated on 13 January 1944 and sent to a...
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    choose Mechelen for their infamous transit camp. Over 25,000 Jews and Roma were sent by rail to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp from Mechelen. The...
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    Solution", Jews living in Belgium were ordered to report to the Mechelen transit camp. Those who did not do so voluntarily were rounded up by the police...
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    several other orphans in the children's home. He was taken to the Mechelen transit camp to be deported but was rescued by a 10-year-old boy named Marcel...
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    in Belgium, most passing through the Mechelen transit camp. Nearly all lost their lives in the Nazi death camps. A number of Nazi collaborationist groups...
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    Erich Dublon (category Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners)
    identify all Jews residing in the area. Dublon was sent to the Mechelen Transit camp at the age of 50 and was later deported to Auschwitz. Instead of...
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  • Museum and Documentation Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights at the Mechelen transit camp for mandatory education. After the Belgian local elections of 14...
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    concentration camps built by Germans in occupied Poland. Jews chosen from the lists were required to turn up at the newly established Mechelen transit camp; they...
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    former military installation at Breendonk, near Mechelen, Belgium, which served as a Nazi prison camp (Auffanglager) during the German occupation of Belgium...
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    percent were deported from the Mechelen transit camp, while a further 5,034 people were deported via the Drancy internment camp. From the summer of 1942 until...
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    of Antwerp Jews were taken in furniture vans from their homes to Mechelen transit camp. Soon afterwards, Reeder ordered their release at the direct request...
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  • OCLC 37862414. "Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Conditions". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 30 May 2019. "Mechelen". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 30...
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  • aisles, since the 1980s) Mechelen city archive (back aisle, since 1989) Mechelen transit camp, a detention and deportation camp operated by the Nazis during...
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    centred on the Mechelen transit camp (Malines) chosen because it was the hub of the Belgian National Railway system. The first convoy left Mechelen for extermination...
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    Mechelen transit camp was set up and the Holocaust in Belgium started to take place with deportations from Mechelen to Auschwitz concentration camp....
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  • survivor and resistant. During World War II, she was interned at the Mechelen transit camp. Fastag was born in Warsaw on 3 April 1917. In 1919, her family...
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    Felix Nussbaum (category German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
    an attic by German armed forces. They were arrested, sent to the Mechelen transit camp and given the numbers XXVI/284 and XXVI/285. On 2 August, they arrived...
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    milk for their newborn. After being imprisoned and tortured in the Mechelen transit camp, he reportedly was assassinated in Auschwitz around December 1944...
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    Sarah Goldberg (spy) (category Auschwitz concentration camp survivors)
    Louise in Brussels and then the three were transferred to the Mechelen transit camp in Mechelen. Goldberg like Wajnberg, who was killed in a gas chamber on...
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    1941. They were arrested on 28 March 1944, and detained at the Mechelen transit camp, then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau by Transport XXV on 19 May...
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    Mala Zimetbaum (category Belgian people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
    in the Mechelen transit camp. Then on 15 September 1942 she was put aboard (Belgian) Transport 10 bound for the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she...
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    "Sieg Heil" (the same salute hung on the Zagreb transit camp from which Jews were sent to Ustaše death camps). Despite protests by Jewish, Serb and Croat...
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    Noah Klieger (category Auschwitz concentration camp survivors)
    by the Germans. Klieger was interned for a period of time in the Mechelen transit camp and in January 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz. There he contracted...
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