An emaciated survivor who was imprisoned for five weeks in the Breendonck concentration camp. His weight fell from 90 to 47 kilos due to the starvation diet he was fed.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 81818

Overview

Caption: An emaciated survivor who was imprisoned for five weeks in the Breendonck concentration camp. His weight fell from 90 to 47 kilos due to the starvation diet he was fed.

The original caption reads, "Photograph of M.F. Van Hoecke, aged 52, taken after the liberation of Brussels. Van Hoecke was imprisoned for 5 1/2 months in Breendonck. Note the wound on his right hand and legs."
Date: October 1944 - November 1944
Locale: Breendonk, [Antwerp] Belgium
Variant Locale: Breendonck
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Paul Hartman

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Paul Hartman

Source Record ID: Collections: 2006.Hartman
Hoover Institution Archives

Copyright: Exclusively with source

Source Record ID: XX222 EM-05

Keyword: BREENDONCK CLOSE-UPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS EVIDENCE SURVIVORS WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATIONS
Photo Designation: TRANSIT CAMPS/INTERNMENT CAMPS -- Belgium -- Breendonck -- LIBERATION -- Survivors