Fort Breendonk (Dutch: Fort van Breendonk, French: Fort de Breendonk) is a former military installation at Breendonk, near Mechelen, Belgium, which served...

part of the War Heritage Institute. The monument is a reminder that Fort Breendonk was the site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, and the...

From the 20th century on, it was best known for its fortification at Fort Breendonk, built in 1909. It was judged that Antwerp, being continental Europe's...

German officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) who served as commandant of Fort Breendonk, a Nazi prison camp in German-occupied Belgium during World War II....

be seen at the Gross-Rosen, and Theresienstadt camps, as well as at Fort Breendonk in Belgium. At the Monowitz camp (also known as Auschwitz III), the...

died in captivity. The Germans requisitioned the former Belgian army Fort Breendonk, near Mechelen, which was used for torture and interrogation of political...

Gefen. p. 309. ISBN 9789652292797. Cruise Travel. August 1982. p. 44. Fort Breendonk (Nazi Camp): Pictorial essay. Mentions local torture chamber via Internet...

Rue de Richelieu, Paris Montparnasse Cemetery Theresienstadt Fort Breendonk, Breendonk Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris (in particular the Haut-de-jardin...

storage. Fort Breendonk was used as a transit camp for deportation to Germany. In Fort Breendonk (ca. 300) executions were carried out. Currently, Fort Breendonk...

free. Fort Breendonk was used by the Nazis as a political prison camp. It is kept in its World War II state and is open for visiting. Fort Breendonk and...

commandant in Dachau (1933–1939), went on to become camp commandant at Fort Breendonk, Belgium SS-Sturmbannführer Robert Erspenmüller, first warden of the...

Belgium resulted in his detainment and torture by the German Gestapo at Fort Breendonk, and several years of imprisonment in concentration camps. Améry survived...

the subject of a song: De Brug van Willebroek by Wannes Van de Velde. Fort Breendonk "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved...

services with auxiliary staff and provided guards for the prison camp at Fort Breendonk. It also published a newspaper entitled De SS Man. The group claimed...

of Amnesty International. Joseph Goldenberg Arrested in early 1942 Fort Breendonk concentration camp from September 1942 to March 1943, died there on...

fighter. He was born in Ixelles on 23 May 1924 and died on 10 May 1943 in Fort Breendonk. He was hanged by the Germans for assassinating the Belgian collaborator...

Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle. Giering ordered Wenzel to be moved to Fort Breendonk where he was tortured and decided to cooperate with the Abwehr, betraying...

used for the transport of Belgian Jews to camps in Eastern Europe. The openings were covered in barbed wire. This example is preserved at Fort Breendonk....

Army. In 1940, the German army requisitioned a former Belgian army fort at Breendonk and transformed it into an Anhaltelager or prison camp. Initially...

the time Allied forces liberated the camps. The former Belgian army fort at Breendonk, near Mechelen, was requisitioned by the Nazis and used for detainment...

Schmitt on 8 August 1950, the camp commander of the concentration camp Fort Breendonk. Although the Belgian Penal Code stipulated that the death penalty had...

(1917–1977): Franklemon was arrested on 4 August 1943, and imprisoned at Fort Breendonk. On 14 March 1944, a German court-martial sentenced him to six years...

1920 Tour de France. He was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Fort Breendonk and Buchenwald concentration camp before dying in Mittelbau-Dora concentration...

a statue depicting Jacques Brel, Brussels, 2017 Ode aan het Verzet, Fort Breendonk, 2021 "Tom Frantzen, sculpteur sur bronze". Brusselslife. "Kunstwerk...

company were arrested and taken to St. Gilles Prison in Brussels or Fort Breendonk in Mechelen. On 25 July 1942, the Dutch agent Maurice Peper was arrested...

openings were covered in barbed wire. This example is preserved at Fort Breendonk. Interior of a covered goods wagon used to transport Jews and other...

Simon Gronowski Gronowski at the 8 May 2022 commemoration at Fort Breendonk Born (1931-10-12) October 12, 1931 (age 93) Brussels, Belgium Alma mater Free...

Schmitt born 10 November 1902. Commandant of the concentration camp Fort Breendonk and the SS-Sammellager Mecheln. Tried and Executed 9 August 1950 44291...

German administration established a prison camp in Fort Breendonk, a former Belgian military fort. Inmates were largely political prisoners, though a...

France and Netherlands in 1940, Natzweiler-Struthof, Gross Rosen and Fort Breendonk, in addition to a number of smaller camps, were set up to house intellectuals...