Open Memory at the railway tracks of the Cologne Central Station (Köln Hauptbahnhof)

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May 8, 2010, at the opening of the Open Memory exhibition in Cologne (Köln) Germany, Johannes Blum (Brussels) is guiding his audience at a Transport XX canvas, pointing to the portraits of Simon Gronowski and his mother Chana Kaplan. Simon Gronowski is seen from behind In the audience. Johannes Blum had assisted also with the preparations of this event.
Johannes Blum (originally German) has been living in Brussels since 1969, was naturalised around 1980, and is known for recording ca 1400 interviews — with his association Les Compagnons de la Mémoire — of deported Jews, resistance fighters, political prisoners, Jewish hidden children, and also Spanish Republicans and former combatants of the International Brigades, survivors of the Rwandese genocide and others.

Some of Johannes Blum’s video recordings are shown in our documentary Transport XX to Auschwitz, like an interview with Robert Maistriau who together with two other young men from Brussels – Youra Livschitz, and Jean Franklemon – attacked the Transport XX deportation train to Auschwitz, and stopped the train close to Brussels to open one of the cattle cars and help prisoners escape ….
Another of Johannes Blum’s video recordings shown in our documentary Transport XX to Auschwitz, is the interview done by the German researcher Tanja von Fransecky, in Brussels in 2009, of the jewish resistance fighter Regine Krochmal (see below).

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Guided tour with a school class at the Open Memory expo, later in May 2010, at the portrait of the young resistance fighter Régine Krochmal, who escaped from the Transport XX deportation train, heading for Auschwitz, through the air vent of the cattle wagon , just seconds before this cattle car train was attacked close to Brussels …

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Edited images (from anonymous photographers) selected from web gallery photos by Bahn erinnern , and S. Grollmuss at the Open Memory site open-memory.info , retrieved on Apr 13 , 2017.

Karen Lynn , Richard Bloom , Michel van der Burg. Transport XX to Auschwitz, the only documented attack on a death train. Online video in post Documentary film “Transport XX to Auschwitz” | michelvanderburg•com | 20130419 | URL https://wp.me/p14gqN-hA

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