Sinti Caravan Site • 20260518

Willy Steinbach plays the violin at the Sinti caravan site Heksenberg in 1935 • Photo Jan de Jong • 1MEMO_20260518_1

In 1935 the nomadic Sinti families Steinbach — musicians — were photographed by Dutch photographer Jan de Jong at their caravan pitch on the heath around the Heksenberg hill in Brunssum, Limburg, Netherlands (1).

The boy with the violin is Willy Steinbach, an older brother of Settela Steinbach. The other 3 prints from the glass negatives that Jan de Jong made at the Heksenberg site in 1935 also show the Steinbach family, among others, with toddler Settela in the arms of her older sister Elisabeth Steinbach.

The toddler Settela in the arms of her older sister Elisabeth Steinbach (circled in blue) at the Heksenberg Sinti caravan site in 1935 • Photo Jan de Jong • 1MEMO_20260518_2


The toddler Settela in the arms of her older sister Elisabeth Steinbach at the Heksenberg Sinti caravan site in 1935 • Photo Jan de Jong • 1MEMO_20260518_3


The toddler Settela in the arms of her older sister Elisabeth Steinbach at the Heksenberg Sinti caravan site in 1935 • Photo Jan de Jong • 1MEMO_20260518_4

Settela Steinbach became known as the girl with the headscarf, featured a few seconds in the Westerbork film by Werner Rudolf Breslauer showing the deportation of the Steinbachs’ and other nomad families — all together ca 245 Sinti and Roma, and ca 450 Jews — on May 19th 1944 from the dutch transit camp Westerbork to Auschwitz (1,2).

Notes

1 – Willy & Settela | Born Nomad | 20210519 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 (accessed 2026 May 18) URL: https://settela.com/2021/05/19/willy-settela-born-nomad/

2 – Settela Steinbach in Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 (accessed 2026 May 18) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiLNDziwEtc&t=1012s

TAGS #Settela #girl #headscarf #family #Holland #violin #Sinti #Roma #Steinbach #caravan #nomad #Porajmos #Holocaust #genocide #Westerbork #WesterborkFilm #MiraclesMedia

Source : Sinti trailer camp 1935 by Jan de Jong (photographer De Spaarnestad) • Wikimedia Commons, Collection Limburgs Museum

Citation info : Sinti Caravan Site • 20260518 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | CC BY 4.0 | URL https://settela.com/2026/05/18

Igler Art • Via Romea #81 • @1MEMO_20260517

Igler Art • Via Romea #81 • @1MEMO_20260517 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • School street art on the Jakobsweg and Via Romea route in Igls, Tyrol, Austria, March 2026 • TakeNode 0d5f7b06-3c8a-4d14-93fb-d8d1441d6648

23•Igler Art project by ‘VS Igls-Vill’ school in Igls (Innsbruck-Igls, Tyrol, Austria), in front of the school at the crossing of the Habichtstraße and Viller Steig — the Jakobsweg pilgrimage route from Igls towards Vill.
Here the Jakobsweg ( Camino de Santiago , St James Way ) follows the same route as the Via Romea Germanica.

More on the 23•Igler Art project by VS Igls-Vill (Klaus Defner & Stephan Hofinger) posted last year , see https://1-memo.com/?s=igler+art

#art #street #viller #igler #viaromea #Vill #Igls #Innsbruck #Via #Romea #Tirolensis #pilgrim #route #path #Tyrol #Jakobsweg #Camino #Santiago #Germanica #Alps

Igler Art • Via Romea #80 • @1MEMO_20260516

Igler Art • Via Romea #80 • @1MEMO_20260516 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • School street art on the Jakobsweg and Via Romea route in Igls, Tyrol, Austria, March 2026 • TakeNode 903e031f-0216-4796-854c-ec47f20c6024

23•Igler Art project by ‘VS Igls-Vill’ school in Igls (Innsbruck-Igls, Tyrol, Austria), in front of the school at the crossing of the Habichtstraße and Viller Steig — the Jakobsweg pilgrimage route from Igls towards Vill.
Here the Jakobsweg ( Camino de Santiago , St James Way ) follows the same route as the Via Romea Germanica.

More on the 23•Igler Art project by VS Igls-Vill (Klaus Defner & Stephan Hofinger) posted last year , see https://1-memo.com/?s=igler+art

#art #street #viller #igler #viaromea #Vill #Igls #Innsbruck #Via #Romea #Tirolensis #pilgrim #route #path #Tyrol #Jakobsweg #Camino #Santiago #Germanica #Alps

Scene • 1MEMO_20260515

Scene • 1MEMO_20260515 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • TakeNode 805a66ac-b428-4856-b551-aa2c89898fbb • Map data ©2026 Google, Airbus

Reconstruction of the scene when Transport XX, the 20th Convoy, stops for approximately 15 minutes in the early morning of April 20, 1943, around 1 a.m., at Korbeek-Lo station on Belgian railway line 36 near Leuven, between the villages of Korbeek-Lo and Bierbeek, with the St. Kamillus Institute on the Krijkelberg hill.

This transport, coming from Mechelen and bound for Auschwitz, carries Jewish prisoners in 35 cattle wagons.

This train DA.801 has an estimated length of 400 meters, so that when the locomotive is positioned before the bridge—the bridge over Bierbeek Street—the last wagon stands opposite the St. Kamillus Institute.

Notes

#L36 #Kamillus #railway #escape #Viviane #Isabella #Weinreb #Castegnier #Korbeek #Leuven #Kamillus #Krijkelberg #train #Belgium #deportation #TransportXX #holocaust #resistance #war #MiraclesMedia

Faces – https://michelvanderburg.com/tag/jmdr/

Documentary film “Transport XX to Auschwitz”
https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/

Miracles – https://miracles.media

NL – Reconstructie van de scène waarin Transport XX, het 20e konvooi, in de vroege ochtend van 20 april 1943, rond 1 uur ‘s nachts, ongeveer 15 minuten stopt op station Korbeek-Lo aan de Belgische spoorlijn 36 vlakbij Leuven, tussen de dorpen Korbeek-Lo en Bierbeek, met het St. Kamillus-instituut op de Krijkelberg.
Dit transport komende van Mechelen , met bestemming Auschwitz , vervoert Joodse gevangenen in 35 veewagons.
Deze trein DA.801 heeft een geschatte lengte van 400 meter , zodat wanneer de locomotief zich voor de brug bevindt , de brug over de Bierbeekstraat street, de laatste wagon tegenover het St Kamillus instituut staat.

Station Corbeek-Loo • 1MEMO_20260504 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Route Transport XX, Korbeek-Lo, Belgium. TakeNode 50f42693-3f86-4573-ab7a-dc583d465e14

The location of ‘Station Corbeek-Loo’ was added as a‘historic landmark’ on Google Maps by me today – URL https://maps.app.goo.gl/e2FoDRFq1pnodLMN6

Igler Art • Via Romea #79 • @1MEMO_20260514

Igler Art • Via Romea #79 • @1MEMO_20260514 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • School street art on the Jakobsweg and Via Romea route in Igls, Tyrol, Austria, March 2026 • TakeNode 4b504183-b05d-4886-94b5-c58b927f3e24

23•Igler Art project by ‘VS Igls-Vill’ school in Igls (Innsbruck-Igls, Tyrol, Austria), in front of the school at the crossing of the Habichtstraße and Viller Steig — the Jakobsweg pilgrimage route from Igls towards Vill.
Here the Jakobsweg ( Camino de Santiago , St James Way ) follows the same route as the Via Romea Germanica.

More on the 23•Igler Art project by VS Igls-Vill (Klaus Defner & Stephan Hofinger) posted last year , see https://1-memo.com/?s=igler+art

#art #street #viller #igler #viaromea #Vill #Igls #Innsbruck #Via #Romea #Tirolensis #pilgrim #route #path #Tyrol #Jakobsweg #Camino #Santiago #Germanica #Alps

Igler Art • Via Romea #78 • @1MEMO_20260513

Igler Art • Via Romea #78 • @1MEMO_20260513 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • School street art on the Jakobsweg and Via Romea route in Igls, Tyrol, Austria, March 2026 • TakeNode 0848fbd4-e34a-4709-bf72-20decfb89176

23•Igler Art project by ‘VS Igls-Vill’ school in Igls (Innsbruck-Igls, Tyrol, Austria), in front of the school at the crossing of the Habichtstraße and Viller Steig — the Jakobsweg pilgrimage route from Igls towards Vill.
Here the Jakobsweg ( Camino de Santiago , St James Way ) follows the same route as the Via Romea Germanica.

More on the 23•Igler Art project by VS Igls-Vill (Klaus Defner & Stephan Hofinger) posted last year , see https://1-memo.com/?s=igler+art

#art #street #viller #igler #viaromea #Vill #Igls #Innsbruck #Via #Romea #Tirolensis #pilgrim #route #path #Tyrol #Jakobsweg #Camino #Santiago #Germanica #Alps

Igler Art • Via Romea #77 • @1MEMO_20260512

Igler Art • Via Romea #77 • @1MEMO_20260512 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • School street art on the Jakobsweg and Via Romea route in Igls, Tyrol, Austria, March 2026 • TakeNode 68d75f11-c176-4261-ac72-5d63871dfebe

23•Igler Art project by ‘VS Igls-Vill’ school in Igls (Innsbruck-Igls, Tyrol, Austria), in front of the school at the crossing of the Habichtstraße and Viller Steig — the Jakobsweg pilgrimage route from Igls towards Vill.
Here the Jakobsweg ( Camino de Santiago , St James Way ) follows the same route as the Via Romea Germanica.

More on the 23•Igler Art project by VS Igls-Vill (Klaus Defner & Stephan Hofinger) posted last year , see https://1-memo.com/?s=igler+art

#art #street #viller #igler #viaromea #Vill #Igls #Innsbruck #Via #Romea #Tirolensis #pilgrim #route #path #Tyrol #Jakobsweg #Camino #Santiago #Germanica #Alps