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Brussels - Belgium Bids Farewell to Resistance Hero Who Saved Jews

Oct 02, 2008 at 09:13 AM

Brussels - Belgium paid its final respects Wednesday to the last survivor of a resistance team that in 1943 rescued over 200 Jews from a train to Auschwitz with no more than a pistol, three pairs of wire cutters, a lantern and a red rag. Robert Maistriau, who died on Friday aged 87, was 22 when he and two friends hijacked a train deporting over 1,600 Jews from Belgium to the Nazi death camp...

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