Groupe Mémoire - Groep Herinnering
GM-GH has as its main goal to keep alive the legacy and memory of the Belgian Political prisoners and resistance during World War II.
Their successors were (in chronological order): André Wynen [fr][5](former president of the World Medical Association WMA)[6] Paul Baeten[7][c][8] and Yves Louis.
[10] In 1995, the GM-GH partnered with the King Baudouin Foundation to set up "50 years later", a memory project intended for Belgian school-goers, both in the Dutch and French speaking regions of the country.
During the Nazi era this was the site of an Institute of Genetics, run by Dr Hermann Boehm, and the Führerschule der Deutschen Ärzteschaft (Leadership School of German Medicine).
Dr Yves Ternon, a prolific author and historian, gave an account of aktion T4, a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany.
The symposium also dealt with aspects of the Nuremberg Code and the set of ethical research principles for human experimentation, how these have evolved and adjustments needed as we go forward.
The Gestapo, which was part of the Nazi security organisation, the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitsdienst (Sipo-SD), set up their Brussels headquarters on Avenue Louise.
The provisional classification obliged the owners to open their cellar to expert investigation by the "Commission royale des Monuments, Sites et Fouilles".
Following the favorable report by the "Commission royale des Monuments, Sites et Fouilles" the cellars in the two buildings were officially classified on 14 January 2016.
[18] The GM-GH played a pivotal role in lobbying the Belgian government to put an end to German pension payments.
[19] Following the work conducted by Alvin de Coninck (son of a resistance fighter) and the GM-GH, deputies from various political parties tabled a motion for a resolution seeking clarification of this issue.
[22][23][24][25] The Belgian parliament's Foreign relations Committee passed a Resolution on 14 March 2019 calling on its government to ask Germany to stop providing this tax-free annuity, whilst emphasizing the injustice of these payments as victims of "Nazism" do not receive comparable allowances.
[30] The Groupe Mémoire - Groep Herinnering set itself the task of coordinating the opposition to the existence of this monument with other association members, parliamentarians and historians.
[31] A GM-GH member discovered Nazi documents in the war archives in Paris referring to a Mütterheim (maternity hospital) in Wolvertem, Belgium.
