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From
August 4, 1942 to July 31, 1944 more than 25.000 men, women and
children—almost all Jews—were deported to Auschwitz
from
Belgium's detention camp "Caserne Dossin" in Malines. Only 1194
survived. The Museum of Deportation and Resistance in Malines recently
created a temporary outside exhibit to demonstrate the scope of the
tragedy by placing 1,200 photographs of just one
convoy—Convoy
XX. There were 1400 adults and 231 children on this convoy
which
departed Malines on April 19, 1943. This exhibit is part of
the
Museum ongoing project, "Give Them a Face". By
digitizing
photographs they hope to give a face to at least 18,000 of the 25.000
deported Jews.
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