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Barracks Dossin

Kazerne Dossin exists 10 years, and is at the same time a Museum, a Memorial and a Documentation Center on Holocaust and Human Rights. It makes it a unique place of memory for Belgium.

As “SS Sammellager Mecheln”, the barracks were literally a waiting room of death for more than 25,000 Belgian and Northern French Jews and Gypsies during WWII.

The museum was built to explain to present and future generations the historical significance of this place and to illustrate themes such as racism, exclusion and human rights.

The first floor of the museum is devoted to the Belgian situation in the early 1940s. The second floor takes a closer look at massive discrimination against Jews and Gypsies. The third floor deals with the organized destruction of an entire population group. On the fourth floor there is a room where temporary exhibitions take place.

On each floor, the link is made to contemporary stories related to human rights, and there are stories of five witnesses who survived the deportation from Mechelen to Auschwitz, who worked in the resistance or went into hiding for the occupying forces.

Kazerne Dossin is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but closed on Wednesdays.

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