On Sunday 22 September 2024 at 11 am, we will present our 3rd resistance novella 'De Getuige' in the Volkshuis (Sleepstraat 33, 9000 Ghent). The forgotten resistance story of "the Belgian Schindler", the Ghent lawyer André Mandrycxs.

Programme
11:00 am: Welcome by Frank Van Vlaenderen, president of the Ghent bar
11:10 am: Author Tim Van Steendam presents 'De Getuige' and reads an excerpt.

11:30 am: Panel discussion led by Dany Neudt with:

- Hilda Hebbelinck on the motivations of young people from Ghent to join the resistance against the Nazi occupation. Hilda's father Georges Hebbelinck was a comrade-in-arms of André Mandrycxs.
- Johan Delmulle, federal magistrate (and honorary public prosecutor in Brussels), on the position of the judiciary during the Nazi occupation
- Jos Van der Velpen, lawyer and former chairman of the League for Human Rights, on the position of the legal profession during the Nazi occupation

The date was not chosen by chance. On 22 September 1941, the very first Belgian deportation train left for a German concentration camp. André Mandrycxs was one of the prisoners on that train, after being arrested during ‘Operation Sonnewende’. He spent no less than four years in hell on earth. Today, he enjoys hero status in the exhibition and among the employees of the memorial site in Neuengamme. In Belgium, he has been completely forgotten. This novella, like the two previous ones in the series, hopes to change that.