Transport XIV from Caserne Dossin (Malines-Mechelen), Camp, Belgium to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 24/10/1942

Transport XIV left Mechelen on October 24, 1942 carrying 997 deportees (437 men and 560 women). It took twelve days to assemble the deportation list which began on October 10 and was finalized on October 22. The Nazi deportation machinery in Belgium ran at full steam following the RSHA announcement on August 28, 1942 that the deportation numbers of Jews residing in Belgium was to be increased to 20,000. It urged the BdS in Brussels and its Department for Jewish Affairs to complete the deportation quotas by the end of October since the German National Railway (Reichsbahn) was unable to supply the required means of transportation in the months November, December and January....