It happens that Jewish Dutch Citizens, with the official Dutch nationality living in Belgium as a result of the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War were deported from Caserne Dossin in Mechelen to Auschwitz, but that no legal declarations of death, certificates of death were found or otherwise known, nor a mention of death was found in the Belgian Official Gazette.
But if they appear in the index “Memorial of the Deportation of the Belgian Jews”, which includes all persons who were deported with the 26 convoys from Mechelen to Auschwitz, then there is a chance that they have fallen victim to the Shoah, but there is also a small chance that they have survived.
Because it cannot be established with certainty that these persons are victims, nor that they are survivors, the Jewish Monument chooses to include these persons as victims with a purple-colored page, but they are not included in the NDVS, the National Prosecution Victims Database, in the absence of official documents stating place and date of death. The NDVS only includes victims for whom an official date and place of death is known.
The Jewish Monument will then state place and date of death as “Municipality unknown, date unknown”. If it turns out later that this person is a survivor, he or she will be listed as a survivor in the Jewish Monument with a white page. However, as soon as a death certificate or other legal document is known with which the place and date of death can be stated on the Jewish Monument, he or she will also be included in the NDVS. In some cases there is sufficient prove that a persoon has persished without official documents to confirm this. In that case a person will be added to the NDVS.