Tag: Belgium

Auschwitz Survivors In Brussels • @1MEMO 20250418


Short impression (some clips) of my visit on Friday evening, April 11, 2025, to the Atelier Marcel Hastir in Brussels, at the start and closing of ‘Auschwitz, our story’ — documentary and lecture by Herman Teerhöfer, with the participation of Natalia and Julia Kotarba of the Karski Quartet.
Herman Teerhöfer of the Smolinski Foundation interviewed 91 Auschwitz survivors over the past fourteen years. Through his documentary Auschwitz, Our Story, he explains how they managed to survive Auschwitz spiritually, oscillating between hope and fear.

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Atelier Marcel Hastir • Auschwitz, ons verhaal : documentaire en lezing (Auschwitz, notre histoire: documentaire et conférence (en anglais ) par Herman Teerhöfer , avec la participation de Natalia et Iulia Kotarba du Quatuor Karski (violon et violoncelle) • URL https://ateliermarcelhastir.eu/agenda/2025-04-11-auschwitz-ons-verhaal-smolinskifoundation/

Trailer (dutch) film Auschwitz. Ons verhaal. URL https://smolinski.nl/wp/blog/2021/10/22/trailer-van-de-film-auschwitz-dit-is-ons-verhaal/

Smolinski Foundation • URL https://smolinski.nl/

Karski Quartet • https://karskiquartet.com

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Strange Fruit | 20240706

Kuttekoven track to Auschwitz… Right after the site where Simon Gronowski escaped from the 20th convoy, ‘Transport XX’, the railway bed of this former so-called ‘Fruitspoor’ (Fruit Track) crosses the village of Kuttekoven, with – on the horizon – the Church of Saint John the Baptiser , currently with the expo ‘Witzwart’ (Whiteblack) – aka Land(es)capes from the 20th Convoy – by the local photographer Jo Struyven.
Filmed Sunday early afternoon, January 26th, 2014, while scouting the place for a reportage with Simon Gronowski later that day.

Watch film at Miracles•Media or Miracles•Media’s Substack … https://substack.com/@michelvanderburg/note/c-61114479

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Number 1234 | 20240303

Door number 123 on our junior suite in Hotel Leopold Brussels that weekend 27 February to 1 March 2009 — a major free upgrade of the standard room that was included in our voucher. I associate, in retrospect, 123 with Simon Gronowski’s Transport XX story, that he told me two years later, and his fascination for numbers and coincidence.

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Brussels Balloon Parade 2009 | 20240302

The 1st Brussels Balloon’s Day Parade and opening of the BRUSSELS 2009 BD COMICS STRIP year. The giant balloons representing Brussels folklore, Belgian comic strip (Bande dessinée) with Manneken Pis here in front in the city of Brussels , Belgium , February 28, 2009. Camera Sony DSC-T500 , Super HAD CCD 1/2.3″ .

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Drummer Boy | 20160115 | @1MEMO | Miracles•Media | URL https://1-memo.com/2016/01/15

1st Brussels Balloon’s Day Parade | 20180228 | @1MEMO | Miracles•Media | URL https://1-memo.com/2018/02/28

Gilles – Brussels Balloon’s Parade | 20160209 | @1MEMO | Miracles•Media | URL https://1-memo.com/2016/02/09

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Manneken Pis | 20240301

1st Brussels Balloon’s Day Parade, Belgium , February 28, 2009.
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CitySkip Featured Video | 20240229

CitySkip Featured Video – April 20, 2009 | Short film TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | 20240229_1 | Miracles•Media | TakeNode deab5515-d0de-453d-9c8d-f4074a39d03b

April 20th, 2009 , TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels was featured as the most popular video at CitySkip.
CitySkip was one of the Web 2.0 communities – a network about all aspects of urban life, from city planning to street art, a forum for “cool people who dig cities” for posting messages, sharing photos and videos – at Ning.com in addition to the mainstream social networks MySpace, Facebook, YouTube. It existed from 2007 until February 2010.

CitySkip Featured Photo – April 20, 2009 | Storyboard film TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | 20240229_2 | Miracles•Media | TakeNode 0af46f73-5df8-4aaf-812a-355553775dd3

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CitySkip at Ning.com – Wayback Machine capture April 22, 2009 | URL https://web.archive.org/web/20090422090336/http://cityskip.ning.com/

Building cities in the virtual world. By Chris Steins and Josh Stephens. In : Planning April 2008 (American Planning Association). Source : https://www.joshrstephens.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Planning-Mag-Web-2.0-Stephens.pdf

Citation info : CitySkip Featured Video | 20240229 @1MEMO | Miracles•Media | TakeNode | URL michelvanderburg.com/2024/02/29