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Louveigné
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thumb|200px|right|Louveigné Louveigné (; ) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Sprimont, located in the province of Liège, Belgium. At the time of the Battle of Liège of World War I, the town was deserted due to the invading German army. During World War II the mayor of Louveigné coordinated a village wide secretive campaign to shelter and hide Jewish children from the Nazis that were then occupying Belgium. Every family in the entire village hid at least one Jewish child during the occupation.
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Place details
- Locality
- Sprimont
- Region
- Liège
- Country
- België / Belgique / Belgien
- Population
- 4,267
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
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- Instance of
- municipality section
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Sprimont
- Image
- Louveigne, straatzicht foto2 2010-07-10 14.44.JPG
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- postal code
- 4141
- Commons category
- Louveigné
- P13200
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thumb|200px|right|Louveigné Louveigné (; ) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Sprimont, located in the province of Liège, Belgium. At the time of the Battle of Liège of World War I, the town was deserted due to the invading German army. During World War II the mayor of Louveigné coordinated a village wide secretive campaign to shelter and hide Jewish children from the Nazis that were then occupying Belgium. Every family in the entire village hid at least one Jewish child during the occupation.
The village of Banneux lies on its territory.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Louveigné” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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