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Prewar photograph of Victor van Hamme, a member of the Belgian resistance who was imprisoned in the the Breendonck internment camp.

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    Prewar photograph of Victor van Hamme, a member of the Belgian resistance who was imprisoned in the the Breendonck internment camp.
    Prewar photograph of Victor van Hamme, a member of the Belgian resistance who was imprisoned in the the Breendonck internment camp.

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    Prewar photograph of Victor van Hamme, a member of the Belgian resistance who was imprisoned in the the Breendonck internment camp.
    Date
    1942
    Locale
    Breendonk, [Antwerp] Belgium
    Variant Locale
    Breendonck
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Paul Hartman

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Paul Hartman
    Source Record ID: Collections: 2006.Hartman

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    Victor van Hamme worked at the Brussels post office and used his position to distribute unauthorized documents for the Belgian resistance. One day in 1942 the Gestapo arrested him and sent him to Breendonck together with 38 other members of the resistance. He survived incarceration but weighed only 79 pounts at liberation.
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    2014-08-26 00:00:00
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