#breendonk

[minarachelle]

Breendonk, Belgium - 2022

#breendonk #museum #trees #indoor #photography #scenery #travel

[warmcandlestick]

Is it just me, or is it more and more impossible for people to remember things they learned from school?

For context, I'm Belgian, so I'm talking about my experience in Belgium. (I'm also not fluent in English so please notify me for any grammar or spelling mistakes, thank you!)

So, I started learning about the first and second world war when I was 9-10 years old. We learnt about those two world wars again and again every year, until my last year of secondary school, when I was around 17. We even went several times to a concentration camp located not that far away from my school (Breendonk, in case you are wondering). Yet, it isn't (and wasn't) rare for me to speak to my classmates and see that they simply... Lacked the principal informations about those events : some of them knew that Hitler was a piece of garbage but not that he was a nazi, or they would not know who Himmler was, or the dates of WW1&2, etc.

And it doesn't only happen to WW1&2 ; in fact, it happens for everything : people would not know about geography (even though we relearn it every year), their own country (like the history of the creation of Belgium, which we learn at 5-7 years old I think..?), the different time periods and/or important dates in history, etc.

And of course, it also applies to practical skills, like reading skills, critical thinking, research...

So, I'm wondering. How, and why did they forgot? Is it because school is so boring and tasteless that they simply can't take attention to it? Is it a lack of education in kindergarden to learn how to manage information and train your memory?

Why would people forget?

#media literacy #school #school system #student #I'm not insulting them #Or thinks that they are just lazy and needs to move their ass #It just worries me to notice a blatant lack of information that's widely available in public schools

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Can anyone recommend places I should def check out in Belgium? I’m going there with my friends and we don’t want to miss out a thing, but the places on the internet just looks like ads lol //

Not really a fan of Brussels, its super busy, Manneken Pis is about yay high, and everything is under construction nowadays. Me, I’m a sucker for Namur!! Beautiful old city with a citadel from the 1600s., not too big, not too small and super nice people (they also speak very slow if you want to practice your French).

Bruges is won-der-ful. (Can’t understand them for shit though) My favourite city in the whole country, albeit supersmall. You could probably see most of it in 1 or 2 days.

If you are a World War enthusiast, visit Ypres. Lots of original trenches still around, with museums around them. Also Breendonk is great, but not for the weak. It is a former naziwork camp, with authentic materials.

And last but most certainly not least: SPA. Now their water is absolutely disgusting but the city is so beautiful, lots of nature around too. Altough the High Fends in the Ardennes are the place to be for nature.

More Belgium ideas for Anon

#ask

[warmaster-uk]

A Flemish prisoner in Breendonk Prison, Belgium, 1944. The Breendonk internment camp was located in a Belgian fortress built at the beginning of the twentieth century along the Antwerp-Brussels highway. Originally one in a chain of fortresses constructed to defend Belgium against a German attack, Breendonk was near the town of the same name, about 12 miles southwest of Antwerp. It was surrounded by high walls and a water-filled moat and measured 656 by 984 feet. In August 1940, the Germans, who had occupied Belgium in May of that year, turned the fortress into a detention camp. Fewer than 4,000 prisoners in total were confined in Breendonk during its existence. Most of the non-Jewish prisoners were leftist members of the Belgian resistance or were held as hostages by the Germans. Several hundred people were murdered in the camp through torture, executions, and harsh conditions. In September 1941, the Belgian Communist prisoners were sent to the Neuengamme concentration camp. Jewish prisoners in Breendonk were segregated from other prisoners until 1942. Thereafter, they were transferred to the Mechelen (Malines) transit camp View This Term in the Glossary in Belgium or deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centre in Nazi-occupied Poland. With Allied forces approaching the camp, the Germans evacuated Breendonk in August 1944. The remaining prisoners were transferred to the Mechelen camp and then deported to camps in Germany and occupied Poland. Original photo by George Rodger, Information by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/) #secondworldwar #ww2 #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #war #history #militaryhistory #military #colourised #colorized #colourisedhistory #colorizedhistory #color #colour #colorizedhistoricalphotos #colorization #colourisation #retro #goodolddays #classic #goldenoldies #colorizedphoto #colourisedphoto #prison #holocaust #belgium #breendonk #detention #1944 https://www.instagram.com/p/CjOqKWbKnJb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#secondworldwar #ww2 #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #war #history #militaryhistory #military #colourised #colorized #colourisedhistory #colorizedhistory #color #colour #colorizedhistoricalphotos #colorization #colourisation #retro #goodolddays #classic #goldenoldies #colorizedphoto #colourisedphoto #prison #holocaust #belgium #breendonk #detention #1944

[dirjoh-blog]

Murdered on August 28,1942 in Auschwitz.

Murdered on August 28,1942 in Auschwitz.

In August 1942, a group of refugees from the Netherlands was arrested in Belgium.The men were placed in Breendonk, and the women and children were placed in the Jewish orphanage. They were all very young children. In the end they were all deported to Auschwitz and murdered there on August 28,1942. Below are the names of the women and their children, who were placed in the Jewish…

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#Auschwitz #Belgium #History #Holocaust #Poland #the Netherlands #World War 2

[belgiummycountry]

#fort #breendonk #ww2 #belgium🇧🇪

[svda]

2nd stop o/t day #concentrationcamp #breendonk #belgium #willebroek Always a good #reminder as to why we shouldn't tolerate #armed #fascist #lowlife #boys to run the #show (bij Breendonk Concentration Camp) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPVfljpJ3_U/?utm_medium=tumblr

#concentrationcamp #breendonk #belgium #willebroek #reminder #armed #fascist #lowlife #boys #show

[florxcamera]

// SUNSET //

#sunset #belgium #belgian photographer #urbex photography #urbex #landscape #nature #fire #orange sky #art #photooftheday #photography #breendonk #nikonphotography #nikontop #nikond3200 #nikon

[ledoshumain]

1.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/drafts/jan-ouvry/75-jaar-geleden-de-laatste-deportaties-van-politieke-gevangenen/

“pas aangekomen gevangenen op het binnenplein in Breendonk; foto gemaakt door de Duitse fotograaf Otto Kropf (SOMA).© IWM (B 10071)” 2. https://www.cegesoma.be/nl/publication/breendonk-het-begin

[mosab966]

Breendonk معسكر إبادة نازي في بلجيكا ترك على حاله كمتحف وطني

أنا لو اني بلجيكا بحاول انسى، سلموا بلجيكا لهتلر بدون مقاومة فالمقابل فنلندا اه يافنلندا لا الاتحاد السوفييتي ولا هتلر قدروا عليها اخر شي قالوا خلوها لاهلها ذي.

[minarachelle]

Fort Breendonk, Belgium - 2017

#breendonk #fortbreendonk #belgium #belgique #travel #photography #reizen #fotografie #books #words #letters #history #war #worldwar

[wijnvlinders]

7, 28, 32, 91

7: What’s your strangest talent? Heb niet zo’n boeiende of vreemde talenten helaas, ik kan meer dan 5 minuten m’n adem inhouden, telt dat? 

28: What’s your biggest “what if”? Hoe de wereld er momenteel uit zou zien if covid never happened

32: What’s the worst place you have ever been to? Hmm, ik denk het Fort van Breendonk

91: You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What is that power? Door de tijd reizen!! Denk daar echt heel vaak over na, eigenlijk

#dankjewel!!!!

[theawkwardterrier]

6, 11, 20 :)

6. what books have you read in the last month?

Since January 6, 2020, I’ve read (thanks, Goodreads):

Picture books

Bodega Cat by Louie Chin

Freedom Soup by Tami Charles

The Boring Book by Shinsuke Yoshitake

Across the Bay by Carlos Aponte 

The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come by Sue Macy 

Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story by Lesléa Newman 

Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o 

The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music by Debbie Levy 

At the Mountain's Base by Traci Sorell 

Bowwow Powwow by Brenda J. Child 

Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor 

A Friend for Henry by Jenn Bailey

This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce 

All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World by Lori Alexander 

The Book Hog by Greg Pizzoli

Stop! Bot! by James Yang 

Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan

Double Bass Blues by Andrea J. Loney 

Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris 

Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom by Teresa Robeson 

Easy readers

Flubby Is Not a Good Pet! by Jennifer E. Morris

Middle grade

I Love You, Michael Collins by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown

I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata

Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Brown (Brune) by Håkon Øvreås

Free Lunch by Rex Ogle

A Monster Like Me by Wendy S. Swore

YA

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill

Worldshaker by Richard Harland 

Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance by Jennieke Cohen

The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne

Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco

The President's Daughter by Ellen Emerson White

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories ed. Kelly Link

Nameless Queen by Rebecca McLaughlin

Life by Committee by Corey Ann Haydu

How to Speak Boy by Tiana Smith

The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp by James M. Deem

Havenfall by Sara Holland

The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

Finding Mr. Better-Than-You by Shani Petroff 

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Game by Barry Lyga 

When My Heart Joins the Thousand by A.J. Steiger 

We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding 

The Edge of Anything by Nora Carpenter 

Suggested Reading by David Connis

The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson 

The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee

Just Breathe by Cammie McGovern

A Match Made in Mehendi by Nandini Bajpai

The Good Hawk by Joseph Elliott

Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles 

Free to Fall by Lauren Miller

Girl, Stolen by April Henry

Graphic novels

A Year Without Mom by Dasha Tolstikova

Will & Whit by Laura Lee Gulledge

Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary by Keshni Kashyap

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley 

Who Is AC? by Hope Larson

Adult

Little Sister by Patricia Walsh Chadwick

Down Too Deep by J. Daniels 

11. what non-fiction books do you like if any?

I definitely have a preference for fiction, but when I pick up nonfiction, I go for narrative history/biography (often with a focus on women, little known history, or cults). Strong and engaging nonfiction writing is important to keeping me interested.

20. what are things you look for in a book?

Characters I enjoy, lack of cliche (exception for tropey romance), uplifting/hopeful/happy overall vibe

Book asks!

#thank you Sarah! #lavellenchanted

[stephanocardona]

Breendonk: unwelcoming entrance by WernerLerooy

#military #fear #scary #anxious #threatening #noody #WWII #World War II #Fort #Breendonk #Prison camp #unwelcomi

[criminal-influencer]

Breendonk Concentration Camp, 1945

[dauwdrupje]

Jean Améry, Christmas 1914.

Before his dad is killed in WWI.

Before he studies philosophy.

Before he flies Hitler’s Germany.

Before he gets tortured in Breendonk.

Before he tries to stay alive in Auschwitz.

Before he tries to write about being a victim.

Before he commits suicide.

‘Before’.

#Jean Améry #philosophy #WWII #portrait #my art