Belgium News » Antwerp News Belgium » Antwerp » History: Antwerp's 'human zoo': Belgium confronts shame of colonial past
In 1894, when the Belgian city of Antwerp was hosting a World's Fair, more than a hundred Congolese people were forcibly brought to the city to be exhibited in the Congo Pavilion. In this "human zoo", ...
News Belgium » Antwerp » History: Antwerp 1920 Olympics: The Hunger Games
On the heels of World War I and a global pandemic (sound familiar?), in a city that had been occupied by the German army, starved and devastated—the Games would go on. Olympic Games Poster, Antwerp ...
News Belgium » Antwerp » History: History of Antwerp Jews Published in Flemish in Belgium
A history of the Jews of Antwerp by the Belgian Jewish Historian, Ephraim Schmidt, was published in Flemish here today. The book will be translated into French and possibly into English, soon. JTA has ...
News Belgium » Antwerp » History: How Antwerp’s Indian community won over Belgium’s PM
Discover how Antwerp's Indian community charmed Belgium's PM, fostering a historic trade partnership and celebrating cultural connections.
News Belgium » Antwerp » History: Seeing Across History at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp
In a gallery of the new Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp a crooked canvas hangs from stately walls painted Pompeii red: a jarring sight in an immaculate museum that reopened this fall after a $105 ...