Fort Breendonk - Brandstraat 57
About Fort Breendonk
Het regime dat zich ontpopt in Breendonk is ongemeen hard : gevangenen worden van bij hun aankomst in het kamp onderworpen aan vernedering, slagen, dwangarbeid, ondervoeding en foltering, en dit zowel door de Duitse bewakers en SS-mannen als door hun Vlaamse tegenhangers. Een nadeel daarbij is de kleinschaligheid van het Auffanglager: het aantal gevangenen zal nooit meer bedragen dan 6 à 700. “Verdwijnen in de massa”, zoals dat gebeurt in grote kampen, is in Breendonk onmogelijk. De combinatie met een relatief zware bewaking maakt elk moment van de gevangenschap tot een helse beproeving. Een groot deel van de gevangenen van Breendonk wordt na verloop van tijd gedeporteerd naar andere kampen: Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dora, Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, Vught… Breendonk wordt dan een “Durchgangslager” (doorgangskamp), bestemd voor een tijdelijke internering van “Reichsfeindliche Elementen”, in afwachting van hun transport naar het buitenland.
Contact Fort Breendonk
| Address : | Brandstraat 57, 2830 Willebroek, Belgium |
| Phone : | 📞 +87 |
| Postal code : | 2830 |
| Website : | http://www.breendonk.be/ |
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| City : | Willebroek |
| Description : | WWII concentration camp set inside a moat, preserved as an educational monument, with guided tours. |
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Aras A on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I am not sure if it's appropriate to rate a place that once witnessed atrocities committed to Jewish people. It's a place that must be seen. Audio guide was very functional and informative.
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chi bel on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I have been to many forts in different countries and here is the best place that stil can feel from 1914 -1944
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mihalj farkas on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Everything is written on Holland and France. For tourists not enough translet on some pictures. Missing a lot of English translet . Great place to visit to see some history . I recommend to everyone
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David Pieters on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It's a must for all tourists who wants to know a little history of this concentrationcamp. Take your tissues with you.
I didn't add pictures from inside. Because this is something you should experience in real life.
There is an individual electronic guide which will take you on a Journey of 2.30h to 3h.
Available in French, Dutch, English and Spanish. Maybe even more. But I had a device holding these languages.
I recommend it.
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Stephen on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fort Breendonk makes the biggest talkers silent for sure, what an impression it gives to a person..
They did such a good job explaining the history at the entrance and the audioguide guiding you through the whole fort Breendonk. The storyteller definitely made you feel like you are living through that same hell.
Needless to say the things that happened here, are unhuman and just pure horror.
We went on a sunny day of 25 degrees, still it was around 5 inside the cold bunker, better dress warm!
The audio guides are available in Dutch, French, English, German and Spanish. Though the information panels are mostly only Dutch and French but the many audio guide spots should not let you stop from coming if you’re not speaking Dutch and French only.
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Olivier Ghislain on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Visited Breendonk in family, with 2 teenagers. It was cold outside, and looked even more inside which helped better understanding of the environnement these people had to live. Such places are important to remember, to understand, to materialise how horrible was this war and how horrible some people can be.
Visit, look, hear, feel and take your time to think about it...
Visit takes around 2,5 hours.
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Niki Bix on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Really interesting site, the audio guide.in English was very informative. There were some imaginative displays and I feel there was a good balance between facts and statistics and information describing real lived experiences. It's a difficult visit emotionally, but extremely important to not let this be forgotten.
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Davy M. on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Very impressive. I have visited this place many years ago, but nowadays it has become way bigger and more parts of the fort are accessable now. Very nice tour. Also new is that you get your own electronic guide... way better then before.
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