Editing Fort Breendonk (section)

===Notable inmates===
Famed author, philosopher, and journalist [[Jean Améry]] (formerly Hans Mayer) was captured by the Nazis in July 1943 while fighting with Belgian Resistance. He was subsequently sent to Fort Breendonk, where he was severely tortured before being sent to Auschwitz.<ref>Susan Derwin, "What Nazi Crimes against Humanity Can Tell Us about Torture Today," in ''Speaking about Torture'', ed. Julie A. Carlson and Elisabeth Weber (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), 75.</ref> Améry discussed his experiences in a book he wrote about the dehumanization that occurred between victim and perpetrator during the Holocaust, a work he entitled ''At the Mind's Limits''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Améry |first=Jean |year=2009 |orig-year=1980 |title=At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities |others=Translated by Sidney and Stella P. Rosenfeld |location=Bloomington |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0253211736 }}</ref>

Comics artist [[Marc Sleen]] also spent time in Breendonk, together with his brother, because his third brother was a member of the resistance. The Nazis hoped to hear them out about the whereabouts of their brother, but they never betrayed him. As a consequence Sleen, his brother and other prisoners were put in a death cell, where one of them was shot every day. By the time it was Sleen's turn he was lucky that [[D-Day]] had occurred, causing a mass panic among the prison guards. They took every prisoner with them to another camp, where Sleen was able to escape. Yet he would suffer post-traumatic nightmares about these experiences for the rest of his life.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sleen.htm|title=Marc Sleen|website=lambiek.net}}</ref><ref>Smet, Jan, en, Auwera, Fernand, "Marc Sleen", Standaard Uitgeverij, 1985.</ref>

The artist [[Jacques Ochs]] was interned in Breendonk from 1940 to 1942, when he managed to escape. A few of the drawings he made during his time there had survived. He used them after the war to reconstruct scenes of life in the camp, and in 1947 published those in the book ''Breendonck – Bagnards et Bourreaux'' ("''Breendonck – Slave Laborers and Hangmen''").<ref>{{cite book |url=http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/view?oid=354821 |title=Breendonck. Bagnards et Bourreaux |first=Jacques |last=Ochs |author-link=Jacques Ochs |publisher=Albert Parmentier |location=Brussels |date=1947 |asin=B00179NLV8 |asin-tld=co.uk |access-date=28 September 2016}}</ref>