Attack on the twentieth convoy

Attack on the Twentieth Convoy to Auschwitz
Memorial to the attack
Location	Between Boortmeerbeek and Haacht, Belgium
Date	19 April 1943
Incident type	Sabotage, mass prisoner escape
Perpetrators	Belgian Resistance
Survivors	118 escapees,[1] 153 Auschwitz survivors[1]
Memorials	Yes

On 19 April 1943, members of the Belgian Resistance stopped a Holocaust train and freed a number of Jews who were being transported to Auschwitz concentration camp from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium, on the twentieth convoy from the camp. In the aftermath of the attack, a number of others were able to jump from the train too. In all, 233 people managed to escape, of whom 118 ultimately survived. The remainder were either killed during the escape or were recaptured soon afterwards. The attack was unusual as an attempt by the resistance to free Jewish deportees and marks the only mass breakout by deportees on a Holocaust train.