Fax Canvas Sketch ‘Transport XX’ | Miracles Making | 20240417

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Miracles Making… behind the scenes : Fax of sketch, April 16, 2007, archive Marc Michiels – Coordinator commemoration Transport XX, Boortmeerbeek, Belgium.
Since 2007, in Boortmeerbeek, during the commemoration of Transport XX, parallel to the Mechelen-Leuven railway line, four large canvases of three meters high and five meters wide have been placed ‘wagon-like’ next to each other. It shows the portraits of 236 deported Jews who managed to escape from the XXth transport on Belgian territory. The first of the four large canvases also features the three young men who stopped the train, Youra (Georges) Livschitz, Jean Franklemon and Robert Maistriau.

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