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Of the 57,000 jews who lived in Belgium at the time of the German occupation, 29,000 survived. like all Belgian resisters, the members of the CDJ (The Jewish Defense Committee) paid a higher price than those they defended. Of its eight founding members, six were deported, and of those, only two survived.

Yvonne Jospa, a key figure in the jewish Resistance, recalled “I was the head of the jewish children’s committee within the CDJ. Of the 4,000 children the CDJ placed more than 3,000 were saved.“

Based on “The Rescuers“

by Gay Block and Malka Drucker

The suffering that exists here makes heaven cry!

— Walter Hurwitz, writing about conditions at Camp Gurs in France, December, 1940.

You don’t know it; no, you can’t grasp the misery that was spared you. You are outside luck itself.

— Frieda Hurwitz, describing life in Belgium during the Nazi terror, in a letter to her sister, October, 1945.

I will keep you as a treasure, and later on, when my hands or the hands of my children open your pages ... it will be a reminder to everyone about a little country far away called Belgium.

— Béatrice Westheimer, age thirteen, making the last entry in her Belgian journal, October, 1946.