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Never forget: Benelux employee keeps WWII memories alive
For others, like Benelux employee Patrick Livémont, the sense of historical duty takes a more individual and private form.
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‘You were an old man if you were still there at 23. If we let it bother us, it would destroy us. You just had to go on.’
Polinsky never knew he had played an important part in the mission until his host, the former head of the Belgian resistance, told him the story. “We were friends all these years,” he said.
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Andrée Geulen, Belgian woman who rescued hundreds of Jewish children, dies at 100
“Taking children that way, from a mother who has just given birth, is terrible,” The Washington Post quoted Geulen as telling Anne Griffin, a historian of the Belgian resistance. “Getting ...
Daily Mail14d
The Nazi Ghost Train
The Belgian Resistance refused to let the train make its journey and successfully thwarted its course. An engineer deliberately threw himself from the train, rendering himself unfit to drive ...
The Daily Telegraph11d
Andrée ‘Nadine’ Dumon, Comet line heroine who rescued Allied airmen but was betrayed to the Nazis
As a 17-year-old student, Andrée was shocked and saddened at the rapid capitulation of Belgium following the German invasion on May 10 1940. Her family soon joined the emerging resistance ...
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Gaston's War
Gaston Vandermeerssche is a young, resourceful Flemish action hero of the Belgian resistance during World War II: he coaches surviving allied pilots trough occupied Belgium and France to Spain so ...