Some of the reactions i saw from Belgians about Ukrainian refugees were disgusting. I feel like a lot of people need to be reminded Belgian refugees existed too.
My grandma was there with her parents, shipping out on a fishing boat — one of the last to leave Ostend. They were given housing, work (my great-grandfather was a teacher), she went to school and made lifelong friends. She was always in favour of helping fleeing people, and was quite disgusted by the attitude some Belgians displayed the past decades.
Jokes on you, because my grand-parents fought for their country, they did not fled, they stood their ground in the face of the enemy, women and man alike.
So go back to Ukraine, and sacrifice yourself in the name of your country and your freedom, that’s the way how it is done.
He took part in Operation Overlord on D-Day onboard the [HMS Godetia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Godetia_(K226)) I think and then spent the rest of his career on minesweepers clearing out seamines all across the world.
Leonidas, the family from the chocolate, were belgian refugees to the UK during WW1 if I remember correctly
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Some of the reactions i saw from Belgians about Ukrainian refugees were disgusting. I feel like a lot of people need to be reminded Belgian refugees existed too.
My grandma was there with her parents, shipping out on a fishing boat — one of the last to leave Ostend. They were given housing, work (my great-grandfather was a teacher), she went to school and made lifelong friends. She was always in favour of helping fleeing people, and was quite disgusted by the attitude some Belgians displayed the past decades.
Jokes on you, because my grand-parents fought for their country, they did not fled, they stood their ground in the face of the enemy, women and man alike.
So go back to Ukraine, and sacrifice yourself in the name of your country and your freedom, that’s the way how it is done.
My grandfather fled to the UK with his parents. He got a job as a car mechanic there until he was 18, then joined up in the [“Section Belge”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Belgian_forces#Royal_Navy_Section_Belge) of the Royal Navy.
He took part in Operation Overlord on D-Day onboard the [HMS Godetia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Godetia_(K226)) I think and then spent the rest of his career on minesweepers clearing out seamines all across the world.
Leonidas, the family from the chocolate, were belgian refugees to the UK during WW1 if I remember correctly
A real-life Belgian policeman who came to the West Country as a refugee during the first world war has been tipped as a possible inspiration for one of the literary world’s most famous fictional detectives, Hercule Poirot.[article](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/13/hercule-poirot-real-life-model-belgian-gendarme)