The Nico Gunzburg Foundation, a Jewish organisation, has taken the SNCB and the Belgian state to court in Brussels. Het Laatste Nieuws reported this on Wednesday. The organisation seeks compensation and an acknowledgement of guilt for the deportations during the Second World War.
  • myrmidexOPMAEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Specifically, it concerns the 28 convoys that departed from the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen between August 1942 and July 1944. Almost all of these trains went directly to the extermination camp Auschwitz in Poland. On board were mainly Jews, approximately 25,000, as well as a few hundred Roma and Sinti. After the war, only just over a thousand people returned alive.

    School’s kept quiet about this too. Another one for the list of blatant omissions.