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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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Famous painting looted by Nazis returned to rightful owner
An €800,000 work by Jacob Jordaens was handed over to the descendants of a Belgian resistance fighter on 5 February 2025. The painting had been stolen by the Nazis from the house of Joseph ...
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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 ...
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Fiction: ‘33 Place Brugmann’ by Alice Austen
33 Place Brugmann becomes a node of the Belgian resistance, specifically in the network known as the Comet Line, which helped downed Allied airmen escape into Spain. We follow the dangerous twists ...
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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 ...
Belgian Darts Open: Luke Littler beats Mike De Decker 8-5 to retain European Tour title
Luke Littler beat Luke Woodhouse, Dave Chisnall and James Wade on Sunday before winning the final against Belgian No 2 Mike De Decker in Wieze; watch Premier League Darts live on Sky Sports every Thur ...