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In 1944 Leigh she was diagnosed as having tuberculosis in her left lung and spent several weeks in hospital before appearing to have recovered. The year before she toured through North Africa as part of a revue for the armed forces stationed in the region.
(8 July 1967)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3385 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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Breendonk KZ

Breendonk, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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Friday 20th of September 1940 (x) — The one and only concentration camp for Belgium is inaugurated by SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Fort Breendonk Philipp Schmitt .
Initially prisoners were petty criminals, people deemed anti-social or trespassers of the new race laws. Later on resistance fighters, political prisoners and innocent hostages were detained as well. Another section was used as a transit camp for Jews being sent to death camps such as Auschwitz.