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Round-table discussion “The Mechelen transit camp and the history of the 20th convoy”

Publié le 26 March 2026

On 22 April 2026, at 7.30 pm at the National Museum of the Resistance and Human Rights in Esch

This round table brings together historians Laurence Schram (Kazerne Dossin) and Daniel Thilman (C2DH), as well as Henri Juda (a second-generation survivor). They will discuss the history of the camp, Convoy XX and the fate of the Jews from Luxembourg deported to Mechelen. Convoy XX, which left Mechelen for Auschwitz on 19 April 1943, carried 1,631 Jews. 236 of the deportees managed to jump from the train thanks to the intervention of the Resistance.mnr.lu/manifestation/table-ronde-le-camp-de-transit-de-malines-et-lhistoire-du-xxe-convoi-19h30-at-musee-fr