Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion.
The story of Breendonk is one you will never forget..
Leon Nolis\'s haunting photography of the Camp today accompanies the wide range of archival images.
Deem pieces together the story of the Camp by telling the stories of its victims--Jews, communists, resistance fighters, and common criminals--for the first time in an English-language publication.
As one prisoner put it, "I would prefer to spend nineteen months at Buchenwald than nineteen days at Breendonk." With access to the Camp and its archives and with rare photos and artwork, James M.
About 3, 600 Prisoners were held there--just over half of them survived.
Never designated an official Concentration Camp by the SS and instead labeled a "reception" Camp where Prisoners were held until they were either released or transported, Breendonk was no less brutal. until the Nazis took it over after their invasion of Belgium in 1940. . .
Damaged at the start of World War I, it fell into disrepair .
Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion
