Historical overview (Nationaal Gedenkteken Fort van Breendonk)
Officiële geschiedenis van Breendonk: militair fort, hoofdkwartier van de generale staf in mei 1940, Auffanglager van september 1940 tot augustus 1944, aantal gevangenen, doden, deportaties, 1944 en nationaal gedenkteken.
Titel
Historical overview (Nationaal Gedenkteken Fort van Breendonk)
Organisatie
Nationaal Gedenkteken Fort van Breendonk (Oorlogserfgoed / War Heritage Institute)
Jaar
2026
Taal
en
Pagina’s / fragmenten
'From fort to prison camp' en 'From prison camp to memorial'
4 november 2026, Claude (scout, Sonnet): Pagina geopend en gelezen. 'The German occupiers set up an Auffanglager, a prison used as a reception camp for mainly political prisoners'; SS-politie 'From September 1940 to August 1944'; 'some 3,600 people of about 20 different nationalities'; 'the number of prisoners never exceeds 6 to 700'; 'In the first year of occupation about half of the prisoners are Jews'; de meeste Joodse gevangenen vertrekken in 1942 toen Mechelen Sammellager werd; 'At least 101 people die from malnutrition, ill treatment or forced labour'; 'Several hundred prisoners are hanged or executed at the Fort, usually as hostages'; 'Only about half of the prisoners survive the war'; 'On 4 September 1944, during liberation, the British come upon an abandoned camp'; 'some 750 alleged collaborators' later vastgehouden; 'definitively closes its doors on 17 June 1947'; 'In the summer of 1947 the site is declared a National Memorial'.
