On January 27, 2006, students of rhetoric Institute Sainte-Marie Châtelet left the barracks discover Dossin and Fort Breendonck. A visit to the place of departure of the deportations of Jews from Belgium.
's birthday the liberation of Auschwitz, while a group of 26 students from St. Mary's Institute of Châtelet had them fly at dawn, the rest of rhetoricians came after about two hours because Dossin barracks in Mechelen. For prisoners of the Second World War was the starting point towards a certain death. The barracks was turned into a museum for youth Châtelet symbol. Indeed they were departing from tracks that led to Auschwitz, where there was another part of the students.
Firstly, the guide showed attentive to the group of pictures telling the story of Jews in chronological order. Accounted for some Jewish families, on the other ghettos, the resistance, orphaned children and, finally, the German soldiers.
After passing through several rooms that told the history of genocide, a film based on the testimony of a survivor lit up the visit in a more personal and touching.
In conclusion of this first visit, emotion could be read on the faces of all, especially in the hall of the convoys, where young people actually able to realize the magnitude and cruelty of the deportations.
Then at Fort Breendonck, a very friendly guide was waiting for the Jewish group. The tone was set by the visit of the entrance of the fort. There, the students could readily understand the situation in which prisoners were awaiting interrogation.
Indeed, resonance, low luminosity, confinement, their imprisonment rendered very difficult.
After visiting a few other rooms, they found with dismay the unhealthy conditions in which prisoners lived. To illustrate this fact, after 60 years, the smell of this lack of hygiene still reigns over the fort.
The torture chamber was the next step. There still exist some instruments of torture and swales that allow blood to flow. This room is located next to the bedrooms. In this way, the prisoners could hear the ordeal that awaited them.
Finally, by touring the fort, all were seized by the cold without power hunt for their thoughts prisoners who were half-naked live in such conditions.
All came out stronger from this experience. The cruelty of men, and especially the visit of these places of memory has enabled them to realize that everyone is responsible for the future of humankind and that everyone at his level, can prevent such tragedy from happening again.
text written May 5, 2006 by Diana, Emily, Jessica, Ludivine, Mary and Pauline
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