Dossin Kazerne, Mechelen (Belgium), 1942.
This building was used during the Shoah as post where jews were collected before being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Just visited the place today and visited one of the museums around it. It first just gives you the amount of people that were deported from there, then it gives statistics displayed as drawn humans (how many were gassed on arrival, how many died in the working camp, and how many survived). At that point, you're more or less still ok, I mean, we all know the numbers, when you read the wikia page of a concetration camp, you get far more shocking stuff and numbers than that. But then, they went over to the personal objects. Dolls, passports etc. What freaked me out most here, was to see the same passport as my grandparents had and i saw before, now with the big red stamp on it "JOOD-JUIF". I had seen similar passports with "JUDE" in Berlin and in Trier in the Shoah expositions there, yet it felt so much more shocking seeing it displayed in my own language, with the idea of all the colaboration here. And then, it just ended in so many audio readings and tv screens, 1 per traintransport, displaying pictures of those that were sent off and saying each one their name, together with personal data and a stamp "deceased" and rarely a "survived". Most scary there to me was that wen you looked at it for a while, and focused on those that survived, you just see Mengele at work. Male 20-40, ok u can go to work. Rest... you can go to left...
Most interesting experience, and I'd advice the other Belgians over here who weren't there yet, to certainly visit.