NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES

Belgium

National Railway Company of Belgium advised to apologise for its role in Holocaust deportations

Documents show that SNCB received nearly 51 million Belgian francs in the 1940s to deport Jews, Roma, members of the Resistance and forced labourers to Auschwitz.

Two schools in Brussels region commune decline participation in Holocaust Memorial due to Gaza conflict

The planned installation of Stolpersteine, or "Memory Stones," in Anderlecht will proceed without the involvement of local schools, breaking from tradition.

Five arrested in Antwerp following call for ‘Jew hunt’

Antwerp police were made aware of alarming calls on social media to attack Jews in the Jewish quarter this weekend, specifically in and around Harmoniepark.

Stumbling stones unveiled in Antwerp honouring Jewish family murdered during the Shoah

Seven stumbling stones were unveiled at Brialmontlei, Terliststraat, and Antoon Van Dyckstraat in Antwerp. Each commemorates a member of the Jewish Suchowolski family who perished during the Shoah.

Vlaams Belang retracts the candidacy of a convicted Holocaust denier for local elections after public outrage

Roland Raes, co-founder of Vlaams Belang's predecessor, Vlaams Blok, was convicted of Holocaust denial in 2010.

Belgian court sentences couple for plotting attacks on Jews in Antwerp

A court in Bruges sentenced a Chechen man and his wife to 15 and 8 years in prison, respectively, for planning a terrorist attack last summer targeting a Jewish neighbourhood in Antwerp .
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