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The article states "By the time of the liberation and the end of
the Holocaust in Belgium, only 1,221 Belgian Jews had survived." Clearly this is untrue; I suppose what is meant is that only 1,221 of the Belgian Jews who were at one point or another imprisoned in Kazerne Dossin survived the war. Since most Jews who were deported from Belgium did not have Belgian citizenship, what about them? And what about non-Jews such as Romanis? And where does the figure come from? It would be nice if the person who wrote this could clarify and complete.
Thank you for pointing this out. The number comes from the article creator
[2]. The
source cited on 24 August 2009 was the website of the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance and is currently dead. An
archived version has "This place was the departure point for a deportation without return. In the years between 1942 and 1944, 24.916 Jews and 351 Gypsies were transported to the camps in the east. Two thirds were gassed upon arrival. At the time of the liberation only 1.221 people had survived." The currently cited
source says "Between July 1942 and September 1944, 25,274 Jews and 354 gypsies were rounded up and transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and to a number of smaller concentration camps. Two-third of the deported persons was gassed immediately upon arrival. At the liberation of the camps, only 1,395 were still alive." The context is clearly survivors from all those who transited here. I adapted the article as "Between July 1942 and September 1944,
Kazerne Dossin (Dossin Barracks) was known as
SS-Sammellager Mecheln, a
Nazicollection and deportation camp. Here, 25,274
Jews and 354
gypsies were rounded up and transported to
Auschwitz-Birkenau and other
concentration camps in the east. Two-thirds were killed upon arrival. By the time of the liberation and the end of
the Holocaust in Belgium, only 1,395 of them had survived."
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