Hector’s parents sent him to an orphanage in treatment for smallpox but… they never picked him up. 35 years later, he still lives in the orphanage, surrounded by children, his…

In one fell swoop, nine-year old David Van de Steen lost his mother, his father and his sister in an attack by the Brabant Killers in Aalst. His grandfather, Albert,…

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the…