The only genealogical branch connected to me is that of Alexandre Bersou in the Belgian branches. I suspect all of us are related but have not yet been able to prove it.

Our old home, destroyed by the Nazis.

The "new" post WW2 Quai de Rome.

Our family fled Belgium during the first few months of the WW2 war and     the German occupation. They went to the South of France below a “demarcation line” where France was supposed to be free. In fact it was under the military command of a senile French General who took his orders from the Germans. They returned Home, in German occupied Belgium after a few months. They lived there during the entire war, until the liberation by the American army.

As our family home had suffered during the war they then moved into temporary quarters down the street while renovating 65 Quai de Rome. That was a good thing since on short order the Germans launched the counter-offensive known since as the "Battle of the Bulge." Liege was in the Nazi's intended path to the port of Antwerp and suffered heavy bombardment. The pictures at right show what happened when a German V2 rocket destroyed our Home. I guess you could say the Germans completed the "renovations." On a side note, Papa's Boy Scout leader took the troop campaign in the Ardennes to relieve some of the wartime stress. They were chased back to Liege when German artillery began the counter-offensive.

The Belgian Branch

"Parrain," My Father's Godfather.