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Belgian-Jewish Underground Group Rescued 3,000-4,000 Children
(Times of Israel) Renee Ghert-Zand - Members of the Jewish Defense Committee (CDJ), a clandestine Belgian-Jewish rescue organization with 300 Jewish and non-Jewish activists, risked their own lives to save between 3,000 and 4,000 Jewish children and aid more than 10,000 Jewish adults. On Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, the B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL-JNF) conferred the "Jewish Rescuers Citation" on 11 leading members of the CDJ. Prof. Shaul Harel, 81, an emeritus professor of pediatric neurology at Tel Aviv University and one of the children who were rescued, wrote a book about what happened to him during the war, titled, A Boy without a Shadow.