The Shoah (1939–1945)
Attack on the twentieth convoy at Boortmeerbeek
19 avr. 1943·Boortmeerbeek
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Three resistants stop the twentieth convoy from Malines at Boortmeerbeek and open a wagon; deportees escape, others are shot along the tracks.
Three young Belgian resistance fighters, armed with a pistol and a lantern disguised as a signal, stop at Boortmeerbeek the twentieth convoy that had departed from the Dossin barracks in Malines and open a wagon. Deportees escape into the night, others jump further along the track, some are shot by the escort. This is the only armed attack on a deportation convoy in occupied Europe; several of the escapees survived until liberation.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Belgique
Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.