The National Museum of the Resistance ( nl, Nationaal Museum van de Weerstand, french: Musée National de la Résistance) is a museum located in the municipality of

Anderlecht Anderlecht (, ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and Saint-Gilles, as well as the ...

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

. The museum traces the history of the Belgian Resistance and

German occupation German-occupied Europe refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly occupied and civil-occupied (including puppet governments) by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 an ...

of Belgium during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. It is served by

Clemenceau metro station Clemenceau is a Brussels Metro station on the southern segment of lines 2 and 6. It is located on the /, close to the /, in the municipality of Anderlecht, in the western part of Brussels, Belgium. The station opened on 18 June 1993 and wa ...

on lines 2 and 6 of the Brussels Metro.

Museum

The museum seeks to raise awareness of the role of the Belgian Resistance during both World Wars and preserves document and artifacts relating to the period. The museum also touches on the German occupation,

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

and deportations of prisoners of war during the conflict. It is housed in the building in which the ''

Faux Soir The "''Faux Soir''" was a spoof issue of the newspaper ''Le Soir'' published in German-occupied Belgium on 9 November 1943. It was produced by the Front de l'Indépendance, a faction in the Belgian Resistance, in a satirical style that ridiculed ...

'' was produced during the German occupation and is supported by the ''

Front de l'Indépendance The Independent Front (french: Front de l'Indépendance or FI; nl, Onafhankelijkheidsfront, OF) was a left-wing faction of the Belgian Resistance in German-occupied Belgium in World War II. It was founded in March 1941 by Dr Albert Marteaux ...

'' association.

Gallery

File:Galerie de Traitres - Hergé.JPG, Section from the book ''Galerie de Traitres''. The page open deals with Georges Remy ic(actually Georges Remi, aka Hergé), condemned as a collaborator. File:SNCB resistance armband.JPG, Armbands worn by resistance members within the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB) during

File:Uniform of a Belgian political prisoner in Dachau.jpg, Uniform of a Belgian

political prisoner A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although n ...

Dachau concentration camp , , commandant = List of commandants , known for = , location = Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany , built by = Germany , operated by = ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) , original use = Political prison , construction ...

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