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Breendonck is the only one; no sub-camps are known of. Breendonck was a "waiting" camp (Auffangslager) designed to receive Jews and political prisoners before their transfer to Germany. ___ The author, Jean Améry, was held and tortured at Breendonck before being sent to Auschwitz. In addition to being a transit camp it was also an "intensive interrogation centre". In practice, some prisoners were held indefinitely at Breendonk and were not transferred. It was liberated early in September, 1944, which made it one of the first camps liberated by the Allies.

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