Museo Kazerne Dossin

Welcome in Kazerne Dossin. 

Between 1942 and 1944 the Nazis used the Dossin barracks in Mechelen as a transit camp from where 26.000 Jews and Romanies were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau by means of 28 train-transports. Only about 5% of the deported survived. Today, the former barracks house a Memorial, a space for contemplation.

In the new museum building, the story of persecution and deportation can be experienced by modern audio and visual means. Stories of exclusion, discrimination and mass-violence are told as well as stories of hope and resistance. We pause to think about past and present human rights violations.