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4 unusual facts about Belgian Resistance


Belgian Resistance

The resistance included both men and women, from both Walloon and Flemish parts of the country.

Most of the resistance was focused in the French-speaking areas of Belgium (Wallonia and the city of Brussels), though Flemish involvement in the resistance was also significant.

In total, 1,612 Belgians have been awarded the distinction of "Righteous Among the Nations" by the State of Israel for risking their lives to save Jews from persecution during the occupation.

The most widespread form of resistance in occupied Belgium was non-violent.


Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II

Bulgarian communist Todor Angelov took part in Belgian Resistance movement, in early 1943 he was arrested and interned in the Fort Breendonk concentration camp, where he was executed in late November 1943.

Rick Moffat

Born October 8, 1960 in Lachine, Quebec, he was one of five children born to James Moffat, a decorated World War 2 hero with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Belgian and French Resistance whose wartime memoir was published in "Behind Enemy Lines", and to Anne Dosman Moffat, a Prairie survivor of the Depression and the Dustbowl of Saskatchewan in the 1930s.


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Ernest Pérochon

A soldier in 1940, this intelligence agent in the Franco-Belgian Resistance was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Buchenwald and then to Kommando in Holzen from which he succeeded in escaping.

Michel Didisheim

Claire Maigret de Priches (1906–1983), as an Allied agent and member of the Belgian Resistance, was taken to Ravensbrück German concentration camp for female prisoners in Mecklenburg, northwest of Berlin, established in 1936.