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On July 27, 1942, the day the camp opened, the Aufnahme was not yet fully equipped, but soon a whole registration procedure was put into place, documenting the first summoned Jews. Upon arrival at the camp, a Jewish detainee assigned to the Aufnahme distributes an identification plate to the newcomers, on which their registration number on the Transportliste is mentioned, as well as the place they would occupy in the deportation trains. Young Jewish women working under the orders of two German SS men, Max Boden and Rudolf Steckmann, typed this list at the Aufnahme, the registration office of the camp.
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The original deportation lists are part of the collections of the National State Archives / Archive War Victims and were made visible online together with names and photos of deportees by Kazerne Dossin in the Beeldbank including an introduction on the digital image bank. The Transportlisten, the original German deportation lists, result from the systematic registration of future deportees upon their arrival at the SS-Sammellager für Juden, the assembly camp for Jews at the Dossin barracks in Mechelen (Belgium). We consequently give an overview of the deportation trains leaving Belgium and conclude with linking this information with the personal life stories as mentioned above and how the latter project brought in a new and painful understanding of time and magnitude of this fast removal of thousands of people from Belgian society. In this contribution, we explain our main source on the deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti to, mostly, Auschwitz-Birkenau: the Transportlisten. Timeline of the transports from Kazerne Dossin:
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Screenshot series 75 years on website Kazerne Dossin
The writing, publishing and reading of the story of two deportees of each of transports – especially on the first 17 leaving on 4, 11, 15, 18, 25 and 29 August, on 1, 8, 12, 15 and 26 September and three double convoys on 10, 24 and 31 October of the year 1942 – is simply overwhelming. Indeed, between 4 August and 31 October 1942, in less than three months time, 17 transports left the Dossin barracks with on board in total 16,631 Jews. The series and the format in which they were timed led to a renewed understanding of the magnitude of what happened, especially in the summer of 1942 when in a couple of weeks time, thousands of people were physically removed from Belgian society and put on trains to be killed.
Around the date of departure of the convoy two personal stories per transport were written to lift the historical facts beyond the numbers and bring to live the victims and their stories and their tragic fate ( ). To commemorate the 75 th anniversary of the deportations to the East from the central assembly camp in Belgium for Jews, Roma and Sinti Kazerne Dossin started a series of online publications to mark these events.
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