Holocaust in Belgium

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The Holocaust in Belgium refers to the systematic persecution, deportation, and murder of Belgian Jews and Roma by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II.

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Holocaust in Belgium canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust in Europe
crime against humanity
war crime
appliesToEthnicGroup Belgian Jews
Roma
Sinti
foreign Jews residing in Belgium
stateless Jews in Belgium
cause Nazi antisemitism
Nazi racial ideology
implementation of the Final Solution
collaborator Belgian collaborators
Flemish National Union
Rexist Party
commemoratedOn 27 January
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
country Belgium
deportationDestination Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp
linked to: AuschwitzBirkenau

Buchenwald concentration camp
linked to: Buchenwald

Ravensbrück concentration camp
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
endTime 1944-09
historicalPeriod Nazi occupation of Belgium
World War II
legalContext German military occupation of Belgium
Nazi racial laws
linked to: NurembergLaws
location Antwerp
Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp
linked to: AuschwitzBirkenau

Brussels
linked to: Brussels, Belgium

Buchenwald concentration camp
linked to: Buchenwald

Fort Breendonk
German-occupied Belgium
Kazerne Dossin
Mechelen
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
mainDeportationCenter Kazerne Dossin transit camp
linked to: Kazerne Dossin

Mechelen transit camp
memorial Fort Breendonk National Memorial
linked to: Fort Breendonk

Holocaust memorials in Antwerp
Holocaust memorials in Brussels
Kazerne Dossin Memorial, Museum and Documentation Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights
linked to: Kazerne Dossin
notableEvent attack on the 20th convoy from Mechelen to Auschwitz
notableEventDate 1943-04-19
notableEventDescription Belgian resistance members attacked the 20th deportation train from Mechelen to Auschwitz and freed dozens of Jewish deportees
numberOfVictims approximately 25000 Jews deported from Belgium
approximately 25000 Jews murdered
approximately 250000 Jews living in Belgium before the war
thousands of Jewish children placed in hiding
opposedBy Belgian resistance
Catholic Church in Belgium
Comité de Défense des Juifs
Jewish Defense Committee
partOf Holocaust
perpetrator Feldgendarmerie
linked to: German gendarmerie

German occupation authorities in Belgium
Gestapo
Nazi Germany
SS
Sicherheitsdienst
policy anti-Jewish legislation
compulsory wearing of the yellow Star of David
confiscation of Jewish property
deportation to extermination camps
forced labor of Jews
forced registration of Jews
ghettoization measures without formal ghettos
proportionOfVictims about 44 percent of Jews in Belgium were murdered
result destruction of Jewish communities in Belgium
mass murder of Jews in Belgium
persecution of Roma and Sinti in Belgium
startTime 1940-05-10
victimGroup Jewish children in hiding

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