In World War II a group of some 3,000 Jewish men living in Belgium were separated from this families and deported to work as slave labour on Hitler's Atlantic Wall in the vicinity of Boulogne and Calais, in July / August 1942. They were sent to some 15 permanent and temporary forced labour camps, mostly along the coast, though the main camp was Lager Tibor at Dannes. They worked on the Atlantic Wall making bunkers, defences, making and repairing roads, as well as repairing bomb damage, for 3 months, until October 1942, when most were transported, via Mechelin, in Belgium, direct to Auschwitz concentration camp, where 96% were killed, at, or soon after, their arrival. Their families with the protection of fathers and sons already deliberately removed by the Gestapo, were easy victims and were also sent to be exterminated at Auschwitz.
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