Nationale Bibliotheek Bulletin – Viviane’s story | 20230421 | Miracles•Media
Nationale Bibliotheek bulletin 4-5 May 2023 in the Netherlands : Boeken over de Tweede Wereldoorlog ~ Verschenen in Nederland in 2022 en 2023.
National Library (Royal Library) Netherlands : Books about the Second World War | Published in the Netherlands in 2022 and 2023.) Royal Library Netherlands
PDF – Page 11 Viviane’s story : escape from transport XX…born 6 month’s later Viviane Yarom-Castegnier (1943-) (ISNI 0000 0005 0884 2840) | Miracles.Media | ISBN: 978-94-93147-00-3
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Today 80 years ago, Isabella Weinreb was three months pregnant with Viviane , when she jumped in the night of 19-20 April 1943, around 2AM from the 20th deportation train – Transport XX – from Mechelen direction Auschwitz.
Isabella escaped with a broken wrist , and knocked on the door of this St. Kamillus institute in Bierbeek, where she was helped further on her escape route back home in Brussels. Viviane was born 6 months later at in Brussels.
Viviane, who is now living in the USA, returned this week – on Holocaust Remembrance Day – to the place her mother escaped and saved both their lives, together with photographer Jo Struyven , author Nathalie Strubbe, and documentary filmmaker Michel van der Burg. During the St. Kamillus visit , reporter Tom de Leur made with photographer Dirk Vertommen an interview published April 19, 2023 in the flemish Belgian newspaper Nieuwsblad – https://m.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20230418_97055388 – “Vivianes moeder was zwanger van haar toen ze van de trein sprong die haar naar de gaskamers moest leiden”
Yesterday, April 19, 2023 , Viviane Yarom told her story of the escape from Transport XX, at the Study Day on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the 20th convoy presented by the Jewish Museum of Belgium and The Auschwitz Foundation in the Jewish Museum of Belgium, in Brussels.
In the Jewish Museum of Belgium , the exhibition ‘236 – Land(es)capes from the 20th convoy’ by Jo Struyven and Luc Tuymans, runs until Mon 14 August.
April 19th also the catalog book by Jo Struyven and Daniel Weyssow (Auschwitz Foundation) was published , which includes dutch and french editions of “Escape from Transport XX…born 6 months later” translated from the original english text of a chapter in the ebook published April 19, 2019 : Viviane Yarom-Castegnier & Michel van der Burg. ‘Viviane’s Story: Escape from Transport XX… Born 6 Months Later’. Download available via Miracles.Media.
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Resistance Atelier Marcel Hastir | 20230419 | Miracles•Media | Speech by Frank Schwalba-Hoth on the Belgian painter, theosophist, resistance fighter Marcel Hastir (1906-2011) in his Brussels’ Atelier, Aug 2015. Film & translation by Michel van der Burg.
Speech
“Marcel Hastir is a very clever man.
He studied German law…
…knows it like the Germans.
He is doing something mean,
staying within the frame of the law.
He discovered…
that a German law says,
that in Occupied Territory…
when you have a school,
a drawing school,
the teachers and students…
should not go to Germany
as forced laborers.
What did he do :
He found a lawyer .. a notary here in Brussels,
who made the stamps :
“it’s still a drawing school”.
And, many of the people of the resistance…
were officially registered here…
as painters, as a teacher or as a student.
And when we go upstairs later,
you still see the typewriter,
used by the resistance for printing…
leaflets against the nazis.”
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:
