Belgian Government circles here today received a report from the underground movement in Brussels describing how Belgian patriots saved fifteen Jewish girls from the Gestapo.
The girls were given refuge in a convent near Brussels, but the Gestapo got wind of it and ordered the nuns to prepare the girls for deportation within several hours. The news of the Gestapo order spread within a few minutes throughout the suburb where the convent is located, and unknown persons suddenly appeared in the convent, tied up the nuns who were in charge of the girls, without harming them, and took the latter along with them. When the Gestapo officers came to the convent, they found the nuns tied to chairs but no clue to the intruders. The girls are now hidden in a safe place, the report concluded.
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