Georges Passelecq, a Benedictine monk, was a member of the Belgian Resistance in World War II.
Bernard Suchecky recieved his Doctorate in history from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Suchecky is also a specialist in the Yiddish world and the history of Jewish populations in Central and Eastern Europe of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is a researcher at the Graduate Institute for the Study of Judaism at the Free University of Brussels and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New Yor. He was curator, head of archives at the Jewish Museum of Belgium (Brussels).