Breendonk SS Transit Camp
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Port
Antwerp, Belgium
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Activity Level
Moderate Activity
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Excursion Type
All
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Wheelchair Accessible
No
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Starting At (prices in USD)
$100
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Minimum Age
Information Not Currently Available
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Duration
Approximately 4½ Hours
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Meals Included
Meals not included
Depart the pier by motorcoach for a panoramic drive by freeway to Breendonk -- a former Belgian army base that became a Nazi transit camp in September 1940.
The camp earned a gruesome reputation during World War II as an Auffanglager -- a prison used as an intake camp mainly for political prisoners -- and a Durchgangslager -- a transit camp. From September 1940 to August 1944, the SIPO-SD, the SS police, processed about 3,600 people of some 20 different nationalities here at Breendonk. Most were deported over time to other camps: Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dora, Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, and Vught. Reichsfeindliche Elementen (Enemies of the Reich) awaited their deportation abroad.
Explore the camp and contemplate its history with your guide, who can answer your many questions.
Notes:
Wear comfortable walking shoes. Parental discretion advised.