Map of Belgium during World WarII -- Definitions of Terms Used in This Book -- Introduction -- The First Prisoners: September-December 1940 -- 1. The Arrest of Israel Neumann -- 2. Building Breendonk -- 3. Facing the Wall -- 4. The First Prisoners of Room 1 -- 5. The Artist of Room 1 -- 6. Watching the Prisoners -- 7. The Zugfuhrer of Room 1 -- 8. A Day at Breendonk -- The First Deaths: January-June 1941 -- 9. Changes -- 10. The First Escape -- 11. Despair -- 12. A Picture-Perfect Camp -- Camp Of The Creeping Death: June 1941-June 1942 -- 13. Operation Solstice -- 14. Prisoner Number 59 -- 15. A Substitution -- 16. The Rivals -- 17. The Plant Eaters -- 18. July 24, 1941 -- 19. The Hell of Breendonk -- 20. The First Transport -- 21. A Temporary Lull -- A Second Camp: July-August 1942 -- 22. The Sammellager in Mechelen -- 23. Transport II to Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Camp Of Terror: September 1942-April 1944 -- 24. The Postal Workers of Brussels -- 25. The First Executions -- 26. The Arrestanten -- 27. The Bunker -- 28. January 6, 1943 -- 29. The Winter of 1942-43 -- 30. Transport XX -- 31. The Chaplain of the Executions -- 32. Two Heroes of Breendonk -- 33. The Twelve from Senzeilles -- The Many Endings of Auffanglager Breendonk: May 1944-May 1945 -- 34. Evacuating Breendonk -- 35. Journey from Mauthausen -- 36. End of the Superment -- 37. The Final Transport from Neuengamme -- After The War: 1945-Present -- 38. The War Crimes Trials -- 39. The Final Death -- 40. Breendonk Today -- Afterword: What Happened to Some Breendonk Prisoners and Their Families -- Appendixes -- 1. Main Deportations from Auffanglager Breendonk -- 2. Deportations from SS-Sammellager Mechelen -- Quotation Sources -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index