Several Belgian-Jewish groups have urged the country’s Senate to revise a resolution which only partially acknowledges the authorities' complicity in the deportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps during World War II. The Jewish umbrella organization CCOJB issued a statement in which it called on the upper house of the country’s federal parliament to pass a resolution that speaks of the complicity of "the Belgian authorities" in rounding up Jews under German occupation.
That resolution, CCOJB said, should replace a resolution adopted by a Senate committee two weeks ago which said "some authorities" were guilty but did not specify which ones. CCOJB expressed regret at what it called "an attempt to minimize the Belgian responsibility for deporting Jews," which was recognized in "strong and clear words" by the Belgian king and the prime minister, Elio di Rupo, as well as mayors of three major Belgian cities who spoke of systematic collaboration with the Nazi occupation from 1940 to 1945.
The Brussels-based Association for the Memory of the Shoah called the resolution "revisionist" and the Jewish group CCLJ said it was "an attempt to minimize" historical record on the authorities' complicity.
