Jews from Brussels marked the 75th anniversary of the round-ups of foreign Jews during the Nazi occupation at a ceremony in Brussels on Sunday.
The event took place in the Marolles neighbourhood and also marked the inauguration of Herschel Grynszpan Square.
Grynspan was a Jewish resistant who lived in the neighbourhood. He assassinated a German diplomat after his parents were imprisoned.
In related news, the head of Belgium’s Catholic Church, Cardinal Joseph De Kesel, held a conference on the role of the Church during the Shoah in which he formally apologised for the silence of the Church during the occupation.
On the night of September 3-4, 1942, the Nazis rounded-up 718 Jews who did not possess Belgian nationality in order to send them to death camps.
