1945 — 1st Edition. Original photographic Yellow paper wrappers, 12mo, 47 pages. Includes illustrations (portrait, facsimiles) . 21 cm. In the original Flemish. Inscribed by Hakker in 1945 on the first page. Also issued in French translation as La lutte heroique du maquis; leur vie, leurs souffrances, leur travail; and in English as "The mysterious Dossin Barracks in Mechlin: the deportation camp pf the Jews. " Ehri (2014) writes that This is an eyewitness account by a Jewish survivor who escaped from a deportation train after departure from this transit camp.....The Belgian army barracks named Dossin de Saint-Georges, built in the town of Malines in 1756, were transformed into a Sammellager (Assembly Camp) on July 25, 1942. The first Jews who had received call-up orders arrived two days later, and the first train to Auschwitz left on August 4. This building was chosen for two reasons. It was right next to a railroad and Malines is located between Brussels and Antwerp, where 90% of the Jews in Belgium lived. After the roundups started, the Jews were taken by trucks to the inner square inside the barracks where armed SS were awaiting them. After being registered and stripped of their identity papers and last personal possessions, the prisoners had to wear a card around their neck with their number for the next deportation train. There were various categories of prisoners, the biggest of which were those marked for direct deportation. The barracks could house 1, 000 persons, but at times more than 1, 700 were crammed into them, with about 100 people on bunk beds in dormitories only about 21 to 7 meters wide. Later, they had to sleep on straw bags on the floor. The guard duty on the perimeter was done by Flemish SS members, supervised by German Security Police. SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium. Personal narratives, Belgian. Tweede Wereldoorlog. Verzet. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide, with only 4 of them in the US (Hoover, San Jose State, LOC, Wichita State). Scarce and Important.Some wear and stains to cover, worming to one margin (no text affected), Overall Good+ Condition. (Holo2-126-1B)
