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Mechelen transit camp, a Common card
The Mechelen transit camp, officially SS-Sammellager Mecheln in German, also known as the Dossin barracks, was a detention and deportation camp established in a former army barracks at Mechelen in German-occupied Belgium.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,000
Ranked #2,257 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It served as a point to gather Belgian Jews and Romani ahead of their deportation to concentration and extermination camps in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust.
- The camp was established in March 1942 and was the only transit camp in Belgium.
- It was managed by the Sicherheitspolizei, a branch of the Reich Security Main Office, and was used to hold Jews and Romani ahead of their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau as well as other camps including Heydebreck-Cosel.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mechelen transit camp article was read about 6,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mechelen transit camp (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wasily, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.



