Tag: Belgium

Microscript | 20240220


Street sign, Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 28, 2019.

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Newspaper | 20240219


Lunch at street corner café bakery, Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 28, 2019.

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Shoah Strips | 20240217


Kazerne Dossin exhibition posters – waiting room train station Gent (Belgium) Feb. 2019.

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War Paper | 20240216


Searching for paper earlier this month (for use as video backgrounds) in my library I came across this special booklet on The Mysterious Kazerne Dossin transit camp published by author Jos Hakker within days of the liberation in Belgium – date of epilogue 7 Sep 1944, Liège (Belgium). Printed by Excelsior in Antwerp, published by ‘Ontwikkeling’ in Antwerp.
The paper background I used in ‘Ellipsis … | 20240206’ was created from a page in ‘Le Rire’ by Henri Bergson – Librairie Félix Alcan , 38eme ed. (Paris ), 1932.

Notes

Jos Hakker, de uitvinder van de “Antwerpse handjes” gedeporteerd uit de Dossinkazerne. Kazerne Dossin. URL https://kazernedossin.memorial/biografie/joseph-hakker/

Ellipsis … | 20240206 | 1-memo•com

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The Abbey by Queen George & Amir Kovalski | 20231201

🎵 All my life I was alive …
I’m sorry …

Listen at Apple Music , or buy in iTunes Store | The Abbey by Queen George & Amir Kovalski – Link https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-abbey-single/1718026913

Song sung by Isabella’s great-grandchild Ameet Kanon (aka Queen George) , who explained today – Friday , December 1, 2023 – at the premiere :

“The Abbey – it’s been so special and personal keeping you to myself, but your message was always too big for me not to share it …

… This is Isabella Weinreb Castegnier. She is my great-grandmother. On April 19th, 1943, pregnant with my grandmother, she jumped out of a moving train headed to Auschwitz. She was being sent to her death, simply because she was a Jew. She understood that it was now or never, die at the destination or die trying, so she jumped. In the years to follow this epic jump, the Abbeys of Brussels became a place of hiding, survival, and safety for them time and time again.”

Listen at Spotify | The Abbey by Queen George & Amir Kovalski – Link https://open.spotify.com/track/0YCgMCYb3O77dsq26Jwwjd

Excellent song … well written !

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French Refugees October 1918 in Holland | 20231031


Silent film — Towards the end of World War I – in the summer 1918 , after the Allies defeated the Germans in the Second Battle of the Marne – large groups of Belgians and French refugees flee in front of the retreating enemy force to the neutral Netherlands.

The Dutch army and Red Cross prepared to receive a possible 100,000 evacuees in the border towns in the south of the Netherlands.

After wandering weeks in the north of France , and next crossing Belgium on foot, the first group of French refugees arrived at the Dutch border October 20, completely exhausted.

At the gate in the electric wire fence at the border to the Netherlands – the so-called ‘Death Wire’ (dutch : Dodendraad ) Dutch soldiers took them over from German escorts.

Some refugees had travelled by tram part of the route crossing Belgium to the belgian border town Molenbeersel.

At the dutch border the refugees were welcomed and ladies from relief committees provide the refugees with food and drinks on the road to Stramproy in the Netherlands.

Within days , thousands of French refugees arrive in the village of Stramproy and are transferred to the city of Weert .

On arrival in the city center of Weert the dutch army registered people and handed out soup and bread.

The weak, the sick, and maternity women were cared for by the Red Cross and taken to an aid post for further care.

The refugees were sheltered the night in buildings like convents and schools in Weert, before being housed elsewhere in the country the following days.

References

Source (video footage) : Belgische vluchtelingen 1e Wereldoorlog. Open Images | Beeld & Geluid (Sound &Vision).

Weert en het einde van W.O.-I. | Jan Henkens | Stichting Historisch Onderzoek Weert | URL http://www.showeert.nl

Noord-Franse vluchtelingen in Weert 1918 in Den Grooten Oorlog | Grevenbroekmuseum vzw | URL https://www.grevenbroekmuseum.be

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