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Belgium

Eight years of prison for 24-year-old leader of online neo-Nazi terror network

The young man from Diependeek in Limburg has been sentenced to eight years in prison for leading the online neo-Nazi terror network Sturmjäger Division.

Exhibition on Jewish looted art during the Shoah inaugurated at the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen

The exhibition traces the lives and cultural impact of the Belgian-Jewish philanthropists and art collectors Hugo Daniel Andriesse (1867-1942) and his wife Eli­­sabeth Andriesse (1871-1963). It is the first exhibition of its kind in Belgium about the Nazi looting of cultural property.

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.

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