1942/07/27 – Belgien Mechelen Inbetriebnahme Zwangslager Dossin

27 July 1942

The security police put an ‘SS transit camp for Jews’ into operation in the Dossin barracks in Mechelen, German-occupied Belgium. It is the central camp for the realisation of deportations to the Nazi concentration and extermination camps.

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Belgium

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