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The Holocaust Museum in Belgium
The first of December in Belgium offers a complex of "Barracks Dossena", which also will be a Holocaust Museum in Belgium and a commemorative memorial. The construction of this object, or rather turning it into the Museum, took more than eleven years, and investments amounted to nearly twenty five million euros.
The memorial bears the name of the Belgian war hero — Baron Dossena is Saint George. It was his regiment was quartered in the building of the current Museum, which was previously nothing more than a soldier's barracks. The barracks was built in 1760 during the reign of Maria Theresa, and after the outbreak of the second world war, the barracks has been turned into a transit concentration camp. For the first few years of the war, via a transit camp in a little more than 25,000 Belgian Jews and Gypsies, and ended their path in the infamous Auschwitz — the death camp.
Not to mention that when creating the Museum and memorial has done a tremendous job, so for example there is a gallery with the name "Person", where is placed digital panel with photos of about 20 000 people passed through the barracks. To create a similar gallery had to handle thousands of Nazi documents using the latest developments. Just memorial three galleries in addition to the exhibition there is a gallery with everyday objects and just objects owned by the former slaves, as well as the gallery with the names of all 25,000 have passed through the barracks of the prisoners. The Museum consists of three floors where you can see the way of life of the Jewish and Roma communities, about the history of discrimination and genocide of these ethnic minorities.
Earlier this place was like a Museum called "Museum of deportation", which attracted about 35 000 visitors per year. With the construction of the Holocaust Museum, this figure should increase significantly. And if you don't care about this topic, for sure you will be interested to visit the Museum and memorial.
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The memorial bears the name of the Belgian war hero — Baron Dossena is Saint George. It was his regiment was quartered in the building of the current Museum, which was previously nothing more than a soldier's barracks. The barracks was built in 1760 during the reign of Maria Theresa, and after the outbreak of the second world war, the barracks has been turned into a transit concentration camp. For the first few years of the war, via a transit camp in a little more than 25,000 Belgian Jews and Gypsies, and ended their path in the infamous Auschwitz — the death camp.
Not to mention that when creating the Museum and memorial has done a tremendous job, so for example there is a gallery with the name "Person", where is placed digital panel with photos of about 20 000 people passed through the barracks. To create a similar gallery had to handle thousands of Nazi documents using the latest developments. Just memorial three galleries in addition to the exhibition there is a gallery with everyday objects and just objects owned by the former slaves, as well as the gallery with the names of all 25,000 have passed through the barracks of the prisoners. The Museum consists of three floors where you can see the way of life of the Jewish and Roma communities, about the history of discrimination and genocide of these ethnic minorities.
Earlier this place was like a Museum called "Museum of deportation", which attracted about 35 000 visitors per year. With the construction of the Holocaust Museum, this figure should increase significantly. And if you don't care about this topic, for sure you will be interested to visit the Museum and memorial.
Source: /users/104
