Leon Platteau, director-general of the Belgian Foreign Ministry, was today presented with a Jewish Resistance medal for the leading role he played in helping save 3,000 Belgian Jewish children from death at the hands of the Nazis.
M. Platteau, a high official of the Ministry of Justice during World War II, at grave personal risk cooperated with a Resistance group composed of Belgian Jews and non-Jews centered around the “Comite de Defense des Juifs.”
The medal presented to M. Platteau today bears the inscription: “To Leon Platteau From Grateful Jewish Children.” It was presented by Prof. Chaim Perelman, a leader of the Jewish Resistance during the Nazi occupation, at a meeting of the Youth Aliyah Committee here.
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