Marcus H Posted September 5, 2006 Posted September 5, 2006 Is this medal official or commemorative perhaps ?Any help greatly appreciated.KrMarcus
JBFloyd Posted September 5, 2006 Posted September 5, 2006 Caserne Dossin was a transit camp in Flanders, so the medal is perhaps Belgian in original. Certainly not anything officially issued.
Hendrik Posted September 5, 2006 Posted September 5, 2006 (edited) Definitely a non-official commemorative medal and ... Belgian, not French !The wording on the medal mentions "Malines" (in Flemish "Mechelen"), a town near Brussels. From the reverse one learns that it is a commemorative award by the former prisoners held during WW2 in the Dossin barracks in that town.The Dossin barracks was one of the main gathering points from where Belgian Jews were deported to the concentration camps ... Edited September 5, 2006 by Hendrik
g_deploige Posted September 5, 2006 Posted September 5, 2006 There is now the Jewish Museum of Deportation and the Resistanceclick here for the website
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