Eric Laureys is Historian, War and Contemporary Society Research Center, Brussels. After earning a master’s degree in contemporary history from the Free University in Brussels, Mr. Laureys participated in the founding of the Institute of the Mediterranean and Arabic World in Antwerp, Belgium. He turned his attention in 1996 to the history of German-occupied Belgium, particularly focusing on the looting of Jewish assets by the Nazis. Mr. Laureys is the author of several scholarly articles and is currently in the process of completing his Ph.D. thesis, “German Diamond Policy in Occupied Belgium, 1940–1944.”
