Almost 70 years have passed since the end of one of the many dark chapters in the story of the Holocaust - Nazi Germany deportation of Jews from Belgium. Between 1942 and 1944, German occupation forces deported more than 25-thousand Jews from Belgium to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration and extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. Despite the decades that have passed, a project continues in Belgium to digitise files relating to those who passed through the Kazerne Dossin transit camp. Almost 800-thousand documents have so far been digitized, for the benefit of historians and families. I went to a personal journey to Kazerne Dossin to delve into those files. (Audio is in English)
Almost 70 years have passed since the end of one of the many dark chapters in the story of the Holocaust - Nazi Germany deportation of Jews from Belgium. Between 1942 and 1944, German occupation forces deported more than 25-thousand Jews from Belgium to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration and extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. Despite the decades that have passed, a project continues in Belgium to digitise files relating to those who passed through the Kazerne Dossin transit camp. Almost 800-thousand documents have so far been digitized, for the benefit of historians and families. I went to a personal journey to Kazerne Dossin to delve into those files. (Audio is in English)
