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  • Brussels Confesses Deporting Jews to Death Camps

    09/03/2012 12:41:39 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 14 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 3/9/12 | Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
    (AFP) - The city of Brussels officially recognized Sunday its complicity in the deportation of thousands of Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II. At a ceremony attended by Israel's ambassador and Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Joelle Milquet, Brussels mayor Freddy Thielemans acknowledged the key role the city's register of Jews played in raids that sent thousands to death camps. "Without this register of Jews, the progressive arrests and the raid of September 1942 would never have had the same impact in Brussels," Thielemans said, quoted by Belga news agency. Approximately 5,640 names were registered. On the other...