A monument to wartime Jewish resistance in Belgium was inaugurated here Sunday in the presence of the King’s personal representative. The memorial bears the names of the 242 Jewish fighters who died while fighting the Nazis in Belgium. Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs Henri Simonet and the Ambassadors of over a dozen foreign countries, including those of the Soviet Union, West and East Germany and the United States, attended the ceremony during which a company of Belgian troops presented arms while taps and bugles were sounded.
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