Members of the Resistance briefly stop a deportation train carrying Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz concentration camp

Cuándo

19 abr 1943

Tipo

Evento

Coordenadas

50.98° N, 4.57° E

Description

Members of the Resistance briefly stop a deportation train carrying Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz concentration camp.

Situado en: coordinates of the event it links, Attack on the twentieth convoy.

1943 freeing of Jews from a Holocaust train

On 19 April 1943, members of the Belgian Resistance stopped a Holocaust train and freed a number of Jews who were being transported to Auschwitz concentration camp from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium, on the twentieth convoy from the camp. In the aftermath of the attack, a number of other captives were able to jump from the train as well. In all, 233 people managed to escape, of whom 118 ultimately survived.

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