Kazerne Dossin – Memorial
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| Address : | Goswin de Stassartstraat 153, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium |
| Phone : | 📞 +9 |
| Website : | http://www.kazernedossin.eu/ |
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| City : | Mechelen |
| Description : | 18th-century barracks with a museum & memorial to Jews & Gypsies deported & murdered during WWII. |
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Tessa Bogers on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I visited the museum in high school (2006) before they did the major renovations. I recognised most of the content but was dissappointed they changed the entrance - video installation as this was what actually made the biggest impression on me.. Other than that, the temporary exhibition was interesting but for me a bit too much focused on judaism instead of the overall prevalence of hate crimes and todays social media.
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Arne Van Steenbrugge on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Very informative and well documented / explained. Setup is modern and pleasant.
However, the video testimonials that are shown on television screens during the exposition are not ideally placed. Certainly in times of Covid, everyone gathering around 1 small screen, or passing you while you're watching, is not really Covid safe.
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Cedric Bru on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Landmark in the city of Mechelen, commemorating a dark moment in our history. Touching exposition.
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Hans De Keulenaer on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is an amazing museum on one of the saddest pages in human history. It tells the story of the Holocaust and particularly how it unfolded in Belgium. This is all done through historic documents and testimonials in a chronological narrative from the 30s onward, allowing to develop a vivid picture of collaboration, of resistance and actions in the between.
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Frederic V on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In the bartacks is a small exhibition, the real one is at the other side of the road. This is an intresting and very nice exhibition With videos from people who lived during the war. You should take a few hours to do the tour. It has 4floors, the upper is a fantastic vieuw over Mechelen.
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Aras A on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I went to this place thinking that I would see the rooms of the camp however it is just a museum that shows you the timeline of the war. How Hitler and his party came to power, you literally witness the war, how Jewish people and Gypsies were targeted and slowly excluded from society. Moreover, museum exhibits artwork and belongings of some Jewish people (camp uniforms, silverware and armband etc.). The museum has 4 floors and if you read everything and watch every video it will take you more than 2 hours to finish.
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Tanguy Lesseliers on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ At Dossin, you're faced with your own responsability in what happend durin WW II and what can happens today. Don't hesitate to book a guide for your visit.
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Graham Penrose on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A highly emotional and poignant experience in the serene and respectful surroundings of a monument to those persecuted by the Nazi occupation and certain collaborators. A heart of stone would be required to keep from tearing up while you walk the corridors of photos , audio visual commentary , statistics , personal effects , artefacts , horrid stories of torture and the tearing apart of lives and families - men , women , and children . The enormous photo walls of the faces of the 28800+ deportees from Kazerne Dossin of the "Give them a Face" initiative pay tribute to the persecuted and put faces to the numbers. Personalising what the criminal oppressors did everything in their power to de-personalise . In these days of populist, nationalist, xenophobic, repressive , prejudice, and anti immigrant sentiment a visit to museums and sites such as this should be required for all children and adults . It bears witness to the effect of creeping and unopposed discrimination , repression , and racism . Humans are all equal . The events that this shrine was built to immortalise should not fall from our memory now or from the memory of any future generation . We must never forget . #peace (Footnote: Maybe a missed opportunity to give a name and a face and honour to those who saved so many children from being transported - the nuns next door in the convent and Bruno Ceupens for example - who are righteous amongst nations )
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