Flea market at the Old Market square in the Marolles quarter of Brussels, March 2019.
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Flea market at the Old Market square in the Marolles quarter of Brussels, March 2019.
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Sablon quarter of Brussels, Belgium, Jan 2023.
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Church of Our Lady of Victories at the Sablon ( L’église Notre-Dame au Sablon ), Sablon quarter of Brussels, Belgium, Jan 2023.
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Belgian chocolatier Pierre Marcolini , Maison Pierre Marcolini , Rue des Minimes 1, between the Marolles and Sablon quarters of Brussels, Belgium, Jan 2023.
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Robert’s shirt with sewn up bullet holes | 20230409 | Miracles•Media | Shirt the 14 year old Robert was wearing when shot in his chest as he jumped April 19, 1943 from the 20th convoy – together with his parents Bertha and Eddy Rottenberg. Detail of the neatly sewn up bullet holes is shown in the bottom-right image. Photo’s taken Nov. 19, 2012 by Audrey Rogers Furfaro and edited by Michel van der Burg (michelvanderburg.com).
Update — A Story of Transport XX – April 19, 1943 – by Audrey Rogers Furfaro | 20230409 | Miracles•Media | Story originally told April 2008 by Audrey Rogers Furfaro, and next posted Nov 2012 at michelvanderburg•com illustrated with the shirt the 14 year old Robert was wearing when shot in his chest as he jumped April 19, 1943 from the 20th convoy – together with his parents Bertha and Eddy Rottenberg.
A new finding – published at the current 236 exhibition in Brussels – is the location were the family escaped – they were numbers 722, 723, and 724. The Rottenberg family jumped close to Houppertingen, just before the site Simon Gronowski jumped, before Borgloon. That map is showing in a recent video of the vernisage of the ‘236’ project:
Normandy Coast | Falaise #103 | 20230408 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | High cliffs of Le Tréport, Normandy, France, Spring 2022 | TakeNode 696a1c33-d715-44d3-af0d-b886c3e74153