Police Custody Camp Mechelen
The Mechelen transit camp, officially SS-Sammellager Mecheln in German, also known as the Dossin barracks, was a detention and deportation camp established in a former army barracks at Mechelen in German-occupied Belgium.
- Historical site
- …lies at an elevation of 8 metres (26 feet)
- Description: former Nazi transit camp and a current museum in Belgium
- Also known as“Mechelen concentration camp”“Mechelen transit camp”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hoogbrug and St. Rumbold’s Cathedral.
St. Rumbold’s Cathedral
Church
Church of Our Lady of Leliendaal, Mechelen
Museum
Photo: Paul Hermans, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Katanga Mechelen and Galgenberg.
Otterbeek
Neighborhood
Police Custody Camp Mechelen
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Latitude
51.02588° or 51° 1′ 33″ north
Longitude
4.47754° or 4° 28′ 39″ east
Open location code
9F362FGH+92
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Police Custody Camp Mechelen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كازيرن دوسين”
- Basque: “SS-Sammellager Mecheln”
- Catalan: “Camp de trànsit de Mechelen”
- Catalan: “Kazerne Dossin”
- Chinese: “梅赫伦过渡营”
- Chinese: “梅赫倫中轉營”
- Dutch: “Dossinkazerne”
- Dutch: “Hof van Habsburg”
- Dutch: “Kamp mechelen”
- Dutch: “Kazerne Dossin de Saint-Georges”
- Dutch: “Kazerne Dossin”
- Dutch: “SS-Sammellager Mecheln”
- French: “camp de rassemblement de Malines”
- French: “Camp de rassemblement de Malines”
- French: “camp de regroupement de Malines”
- French: “Caserne Dossin”
- French: “Mechelen”
- French: “Mecheln”
- French: “Mecheln/Mechelen/Malines”
- German: “Kamp Mechelen”
- German: “KZ Malines”
- German: “KZ Mechelen”
- German: “KZ Mecheln”
- German: “Polizeihaftlager Mechelen”
- German: “Sammellager Mechelen”
- German: “Sammellager Mecheln”
- German: “SS-Sammellager de Malines”
- German: “SS-Sammellager Mechelen”
- German: “SS-Sammellager Mecheln”
- Greek: “Στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Μέχελεν”
- Hebrew: “מחנה המעבר מכלן”
- Hebrew: “מחנה מכלן”
- Hebrew: “מחנה מעבר מכלן”
- Italian: “Campo di transito di Malines”
- Italian: “Campo di transito di Mechelen”
- Japanese: “メヘレン収容所”
- Persian: “اردوگاه انتقالی مشلن”
- Portuguese: “Campo de Trânsito de Mechelen”
- Russian: “Транзитный лагерь Мехелен”
- Spanish: “Campo de tránsito de Malinas”
- Swedish: “Dossin-kasernen”
- Uzbek: “Mechelen tranzit lageri”
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