Maurice Heiber, the wartime head of the Belgian Jewish underground’s child rescue division, died here last night at the age of 72. Heiber, who also served in the Belgian resistance movement, was responsible for saving the lives of more than 3000 Jewish children. After the war he played an active role in Jewish communal organizations.
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