National Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium

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National Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium
Photo: Dr Les (Leszek - Leslie) Sachs from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY 2.0 · photo page on Wikimedia Commons

The National Memorial to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium (French: Mémorial National aux Martyrs Juifs de Belgique; Dutch: Nationaal Gedenkteken der Joodse Martelaren van België) is a Holocaust memorial in Anderlecht, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It commemorates the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Belgium during the Second World War.

The memorial was designed in 1964 by architect André Godart, in collaboration with architect Odon Dupire and consulting engineers Abraham Lipski and Jacques Lewin, and built between 1968–1970. The memorial was designated a historic monument 23 October 2003 and is open to visitors by appointment only.

The memorial is located on the Square des Martyrs Juifs/Joodse-Martelarensquare (lit. 'Jewish Martyrs Square'), in Cureghem.

Excerpt from Wikipedia: National Memorial to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium · CC BY-SA 4.0

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