BELGIUM
automobile accidents: g80 12/22 30
Brussels:
cost of living: g79 7/22 31
soccer riot: g85 8/22 29
Catholic Church: w79 10/1 11; g68 4/22 16, 24
rioting in the churches: yb84 119-120
description: w79 10/1 8-9; g50 11/8 9-11; g48 6/22 27-28; g35 4/24 455-460
disaster: g67 7/8 29; g67 8/8 23-25
divisions between Walloons and Flemings: w81 5/15 30
food surplus: g62 8/8 10
Ghent: g60 11/22 24-26; g45 6/6 28; g35 4/24 459
history: g35 4/24 451-455
Ieper (Ypres): g61 9/22 20
Jehovah’s Witnesses: yb85 41; yb76 6-7; w73 570-574; g72 7/22 23-26; w71 680; yb71 88-89; w70 652; yb70 104-106; yb69 86-88; yb68 85-87; g68 9/8 21-22; yb67 88-90; yb66 44, 72-74; w65 317, 639; yb65 69-70; yb64 99-101; w63 309-311; yb63 83-84; w62 207; yb62 89-91; w61 171; yb61 86-88
Assembly Halls: yb84 123-124
assembly held despite flying-bomb threat: yb84 101-102
ban on literature: yb84 63-64
ban on transporting literature (1950-1981): yb84 110
baptisms during Nazi occupation: yb84 99
branch office: yb84 49, 66, 105, 113, 118-119
Brzoska, François: yb84 57, 64-65, 80-81
Buisset, Alvar and Nancy: yb84 108
Caré, François: yb84 38
Catholics learn truth: yb84 38, 40-41, 53-54
circuit assemblies: yb84 108, 115
circuit overseers: yb84 60, 76, 96
cleansing of the organization: yb84 43-45
clergy opposition: yb84 52, 56-57, 61-63, 97, 109-113, 115
clothing shipment from American brothers: yb84 106-107
colporteur work: yb84 49
congregations: yb84 56, 60, 63, 67, 99-100, 122; w79 10/1 10
conventions: yb84 42, 48, 56, 101, 107, 115-116, 118-119, 121; w79 10/1 12; w78 12/1 6-7; yb78 249; g60 11/8 16; w57 619; w54 720; w51 759-760; w50 47; w47 351-352; w46 48
conventions (attended outside of Belgium): yb84 42, 50, 59, 114
Coville, Allan: yb84 108-109
deportation of foreign pioneers: yb84 52-53
efforts to attend conventions: yb84 43
family opposition overcome: yb84 41
Fevrier, Brother: yb84 55, 75-76, 86
Floryn, Brother: yb84 66, 68-69, 72, 82-83, 92, 94
foreign brothers expelled or imprisoned after World War II: yb84 107-108
foreign-language congregations: yb84 119; w81 1/1 24; w79 10/1 10-11
foreign publishers in congregations: yb84 117-119
French Zion’s Watch Tower: yb84 36-37
Gillet, Marcel: yb84 119
Glowacz, Albin: yb84 57, 65-66, 81-82, 93-96
Golic family: yb84 69, 85-86, 96, 100-101
growth: yb84 41-42, 49-51, 60, 63, 99-100, 104, 108, 113, 116, 122
Hankus, François: yb84 57, 79-80, 83, 90, 93-94; w79 10/1 9-10
Hartlief, Markus: yb84 108-109
Hartstang, Frederic: yb84 59-60, 67-68, 70-71, 84-85, 87-91, 96, 101-105, 107
Hebrant, Armand: yb84 87
Heuse, Ernest, Jr.: yb84 74-75
Heuse, Ernest, Sr.: yb84 46-47, 73, 87, 102
Holmes, Calvin: yb84 104-105, 113
honesty: g80 7/22 29
Jehovah’s protection: yb84 72-75, 84-85, 88-91, 100-101
Johnston, Elmer: yb84 108
Kingdom Halls: yb84 116-117
Klopper, Willy: yb84 107
Klose, Erwin: yb84 107-108
language schools: yb84 117-118
legal organization formed: yb84 51
lending out books during the Nazi occupation: yb84 97-98
life story “I Cleaned Up My Life—Why?”: g78 12/8 21-24
literature distributed during World War II: yb84 99-100
literature hidden from opposers: yb84 66-101
literature printed underground during Nazi occupation: yb84 69-71, 99-100; w79 10/1 10
literature smuggled into Belgium during Nazi occupation: yb84 71-72
literature smuggled into France during Nazi era: yb80 97
literature stand at Brussels World’s Fair (1935): yb84 56-57
meetings during the Nazi era: yb84 76-77
Memorial: yb84 45, 100, 108, 116; w79 10/1 12
Michiels, Brother: yb84 66, 83, 94
Midi, Alphonse: yb84 92-93
missionaries: yb84 104, 108-109, 113
modern history: yb84 34-38, 40-125; w79 10/1 8-12
narrow escapes from Gestapo: yb84 78-85, 98
Pajk family: yb84 69
persecution: yb84 52-54, 61-101, 107-114; w79 10/1 9-10; jp 153; w45 239-240; w40 304
pioneers: yb84 50-53, 57, 60, 62-63, 105-106
Poelmans, Joseph: yb84 40-41, 44-49, 58-59, 124; w79 10/1 9
property tax exemption: yb84 116-117
Radojewski, Jean: yb84 57
recovery without blood: g77 6/8 14-15
reorganization following World War II: yb84 103-105
Schneider, Fritz: yb84 107
Schockaert, Lodewijk: yb84 92-93
Schrantz, Emile: yb84 53-55, 59-62, 72-73, 78, 87, 100-101, 109-110; w73 570-574
Schutz, Werner: yb84 58-60, 72-74, 86, 91
service experiences: yb86 20; yb84 62-65; w79 10/1 10-12; yb78 14-15; g54 7/22 27-28; w40 304; g39 1/11 9-10
service reports: yb84 49, 51-52, 63, 99-100
Smets, Leonard: yb84 38, 40-41, 44-48, 58-59, 124
Smets, Marie: yb84 74
Tilmant, Jean-Baptiste: yb84 35-38, 44, 124; w79 10/1 9
transcription machines: yb84 58-59
underground work during Nazi occupation: yb84 66-101
van der Bijl, G.: yb84 108-109
Verdière, Edouard: yb84 38, 40-41, 44
Whitmore, Jessie: yb84 59
Wiegersma, Aalzen: yb84 108-109
Wozniak, André: yb84 49-50, 52-53, 59-61, 66-69, 71-72, 77-83, 113-114; w79 10/1 9-10
king: g62 6/8 23
labor cost per hour: g80 11/22 30
languages spoken: yb84 35
map: yb84 39; w79 10/1 8
mining disaster: g56 12/8 17-19
population: yb86 34
makeup: yb84 35
religion: yb84 34-35; g58 9/22 27-28; g57 8/8 21-23; g54 7/22 27; g51 7/8 22; g35 4/24 455-457
ship railway: g70 5/8 15
surgery for horses: g77 3/22 30
taxes: g77 3/22 29
unemployment: g83 2/22 30
visits by—
Franz, F. W.: yb84 108; w47 351-352
Henschel, M. G.: yb84 104; w46 48
Knorr, N. H.: yb84 104, 118-119; w79 10/1 10; w46 48
Russell, C. T.: yb84 35; w79 10/1 9
Rutherford, J. F.: yb84 37, 42
Suiter, G.: yb84 108; w47 351-352
visit to a coal mine: g79 8/22 20-23
women:
employment: g79 1/22 19
world’s fair: g58 4/8 21-23; g58 12/22 12-15
World War I:
unexploded shells dug up in 1979: w79 8/1 4
World War II: g47 9/8 6; g46 6/19 29; g42 11/25 18-19; g41 1/8 22; g41 4/30 7-9; g40 9/18 28