Commemoration of the deportation of Jews and Roma from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.
On 11 September 1942, just over 500 Jews from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, in the North of France, were rounded up and taken to the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen. On 15 September 1942, convoy X deports them to Auschwitz.
These victims were among the 25,272 Jews and 353 Roma deported between August 1942 and July 1944 from the Dossin barracks to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 28 convoys. Only 1255 of them survived. A memorial in the former barracks is now a serene place of remembrance.
With the organisation of this commemoration, Kazerne Dossin wishes to perpetuate and make known the memory of the deportation and extermination of the Jewish and Roma communities of Nord-Pas-de-Calais.