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Sculptor’s Monument Transport XX

① memo 20160427 ~ Sculptor’s Monument Transport XX ~ Sculptor Koenraad Tinel looks at the corten steel work of Etienne Desmet – the Transport XX monument in Boortmeerbeek , Belgium, during the commemoration April 27, 2014. Both Belgian visual artists were born in Ghent.
The sculpture commemorates the heroic attack in Boortmeerbeek April 19, 1943 on the deportation train ‘Transport XX’ – a cattle car train crammed with 1631 Jewish passengers, heading for Auschwitz – by three young men from Brussels – Youra Livschitz, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon – who succeeded in opening one of the cars and liberate 17 people.

Rhine Ripples

① memo 20160425 ~ Rhine Ripples ~ Reflection of Ripples Under The Fish Bridge (Visbrug) between the Silent and New Rhine , where Leyden was born , Holland, April , 2014

Site Of Attack On Transport XX

① memo 20160423 ~ Site Of Attack On Transport XX ~ Site of the attack on the deportation train ‘Transport XX’ – a cattle car train crammed with 1631 Jewish passengers, heading for Auschwitz.
Here in Boortmeerbeek , Belgium, the night of April 19, 1943, three young men from Brussels – Youra Livschitz, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon – attacked and stopped this cattle car train, succeeded in opening one of the cars and liberate 17 people. Another more than 200 others could jump out also before the train reached the German border. Site filmed May 15, 2011.

Halt

① memo 20160422 ~ Halt ~ Holland , 2011.

This german nazi procured class 50 freight train steam locomotive built in 1943 by Societé Franco-Belge was delivered december 1943 to Reichsbahn-Ausbesserungswerk Schwerte.