Undocumented • Portrait #23 • @1MEMO 20251211

Tea is served in one of the tents of the Afghan refugees camp inside the Béguinage church in Brussels, April 2014. Video still.

Béguinage Chronicles

More on the Beguinage Project here :

Afghan refugees in Brussels – Beguinage Project – https://michelvanderburg.com/2014/05/29/beguinage/

Afghans & Belgians « We want justice » – https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/11/24/genoeg-gezwegen-sans-papiers/

Samir Hamdard ~ Afghan Refugee Camp Brussels Beguinage Church – https://michelvanderburg.com/2020/07/29/samir-hamdard-afghan-refugee-camp-brussels-beguinage-church/

Samir Hamdard ~ Afghan Refugee Camp Brussels Beguinage Church | 20200729 | YouTube Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media :

https://youtu.be/W4-Pcx3q98I?si=Cw9qZOVsPmeUhA4e

#protest #deportation #art #street #Belgium #Brussels #Afghan #Beguinage #church #refugee #war #undocumented #street #sanspapiers #migrant #portrait #justice #rights #tea #camp #tent #photography #1Memo #michelvanderburg #MiraclesMedia

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Youtube Creator Top 25 Award • Transport XX • @1MEMO 20251021

#24 Most Viewed Today on YouTube • TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels

#24 Most Viewed Today on YouTube • TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels

My ‘Channel 012’ ranked the #24 Most Viewed Today YouTube channel in the Netherlands on the first day after uploading the captivating video Transport XX . The next day again it reached #23 Most Viewed Today.

Channel012 ranking was #68 in Most Viewed (This Week) , a week after uploading Transport XX.

Channel012 is renamed Michel van der Burg | Miracles • Media Both usernames and links work :
@channel012
@michelvanderburg
https://www.youtube.com/channel012
https://www.youtube.com/michelvanderburg

Pioneer

Google purchased YouTube late 2006. I started late 2007, with a first upload. Between ~ 2007-2011 channel pages were equipped with view counters, bulletin boards, and were awarded badges for various rank-based achievements, such as ” “#68 – Most Viewed (This Week)”. The term “gurus” on YouTube referred to a specific category of content creators who focused on education. This category helped establish YouTube as a platform for influencers. You could change your account type to eg. Director, Comedian, Musician.


Notes

TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels

The film was uploaded close to midnight April 19th, 2009, registered by YouTube as April 20th, 2009.
This short documentary is a video impression (2009) of the confrontation of passers-by with the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels, that presented photographic portraits of 1,200 of the 1,631 Jewish prisoners deported with the 20th train convoy to Auschwitz , the night of April 19th in 1943. Half an hour after the departure of this transport XX three young Belgians from Brussels, Youra Livschitz, Jean Franklemon and Robert Maistriau stopped the train between Boortmeerbeek and Haacht, opened one of the cars and liberated 17 prisoners. Later before the train reaches the German border over 200 other prisoners decide to attempt to escape and also jump out of the cars. This was the only documented attack on a death train during the Holocaust.

A 1minute edition of Transport XX premiered in the Paradiso theater in Amsterdam Nov. 28, 2010 – in The One Minutes – Where history starts …film festival . Here the registration :
Transport XX in Paradiso | The One Minutes Collection | 20200607 | URL https://youtu.be/KuyQzLXQo3g

A behind the scenes film of the making of this film was published last year : Flow | Miracles Moment #1 | 20240513 | URL https://youtu.be/iwQQLvGtUm0

The original post at imichel.com URL https://www.imichel.com/2009/04/transport-xx-installation-brussels.html Repost at michelvanderburg.com :
TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | imichel•com | 20090419 | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2009/04/19/transport-xx-installation-brussels-imichelcom-20090419/

#YouTube #creator #award #BTS #making #top #guru #badge #channel012 #street #art #TransportXX #views #holocaust #channel #remembrance #education #KazerneDossin #Brussels #war

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Wall of Honor • Sally & Nelly Story #4 • 20250501

Nelly Quintart – spelled as Quintard – engraved on the Wall of Honor , Belgium 1999 section, in the Garden of Righteous at Yad Vashem .

Yad Vashem recognized Nelly as Righteous Among the Nations on December 30, 1998, and honored her posthumously in 1999 with the Righteous title and medal.

Background

Belgian Resistance fighter Nelly Quintart has been hiding the Jewish Frankenthal family — Esther, Adolphe, and daughter Sally Frankenthal — at her place, 13 Rue Marie-Thérèse in Brussels, from September 1942 until the liberation in 1944.
Sally Frankenthal recommended to Yad Vashem in the late 1990s the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ medal for ‘Nelly Quintard’, which Nelly received posthumously in 1999. The surname ‘Quintart’ was misspelled as ‘Quintard’ in Sally’s correspondence with Yad Vashem.

Quintard Nelly. Righteous collection Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center. URL https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/righteous/4017080

Story of Righteous Nelly • Quintart aka Quintard | 20230526 | Renée Cassin & Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2023/05/26/story-of-righteous-nelly-quintart-aka-quintard/

Irena Steinfeldt, “Commemorating the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. The History of a Unique Program”, Diasporas [Online], 21 | 2013, Online since 01 March 2013, connection on 30 April 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/261; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/diasporas.261

“Names of Righteous by Country,” Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, last modified January 1 2023, https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/statistics.html
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Souvenir • Sally & Nelly Story #3 • 20250430


April 11, 2025. Installation stolperstein Sally Frankenthal, 11-13 Rue Marie-Thérèse, Brussels, Belgium.

Visitation Stones

As part of the closing ceremony, Bella Swiatlowski, coordinator Stolpersteine of the Association pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, invited all attendees to place a pebble around the stolperstein, a souvenir, showing respect.

Accordion music – Yiddish Partisan Song “Zog nit keyn mol” – by André Reinitz. Stolperstein handcrafted by Gunter Demnig’s team. Film by Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media.

Background

Stolperstein Sally Frankenthal • Sally & Nelly Story #2 • Miracles•Media • 20250429 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2025/04/29/stolperstein-sally-frankenthal-sally-nelly-story-2-20250429/

Diorama • Sally & Nelly Story #1 • Renée Cassin & Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20250427 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2025/04/27/diorama-sally-nelly-story-1-20250427/

Sally • 20250411 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2025/04/11/sally-20250411/

Story of Righteous Nelly • Quintart aka Quintard | 20230526 | Renée Cassin & Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2023/05/26/story-of-righteous-nelly-quintart-aka-quintard/

Stolpersteine. An art monument by Gunter Demnig. URL https://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/

Stolperstein

ICI ETAIT CACHEE
SALLY FRANKENTHAL
NEE 1934
SEP 1942-1944
RESCAPEE

(translation)

HERE WAS HIDDEN
SALLY FRANKENTHAL
BORN 1934
SEP 1942-1944
SURVIVOR

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Stolperstein Sally Frankenthal • Sally & Nelly Story #2 • 20250429


HERE WAS HIDDEN
SALLY FRANKENTHAL
BORN 1934
SEP 1942-1944
SURVIVOR

Installation stolperstein Sally Frankenthal, 11-13 Rue Marie-Thérèse, Brussels, 11 April 2025.
Belgian Resistance fighter Nelly Quintart has been hiding the Jewish Frankenthal family — Esther, Adolphe, and daughter Sally Frankenthal — at her place, 13 Rue Marie-Thérèse in Brussels, from September 1942 until the liberation in 1944.
Sally Frankenthal recommended to Yad Vashem in the late 1990s the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ medal for ‘Nelly Quintard’, which Nelly received posthumously. The surname ‘Quintart’ was misspelled as ‘Quintard’ in Sally’s correspondence with Yad Vashem.

Together, the families of Sally Frankenthal and Nelly Quintart and researcher, filmmaker Michel van der Burg took the initiative June 2023 for this Stolperstein, a tribute to Sally Frankelthal, to recall passers-by to this story of Sally & Nelly, in front of the place where the house where Nelly Quintart hid the Frankenthal family used to stand – now a large new building at 11-13 Rue Marie-Thérèse in Brussels.

April 11, 2025 this beautiful and moving Stolperstein ceremony took place with music by André Reinitz on accordion, thanks to the Association pour la Mémoire de la Shoah joining our initiative July 2023 and making it happen, especially Marcel Zalc (president) and Bella Swiatlowski, coordinator Stolpersteine. Thank you municipal workers for placing this stolperstein. Film by Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media.

A person is only forgotten when their name is forgotten.
From the Talmud

The story of Sally & Nelly is now integrated into the largest decentralized memorial in the world, thanks to the artist Gunter Demnig and his team…hand-stamping each letter into the brass of this stone.

Background

Diorama • Sally & Nelly Story #1 • Renée Cassin & Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20250427 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2025/04/27/diorama-sally-nelly-story-1-20250427/

Sally • 20250411 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2025/04/11/sally-20250411/

Story of Righteous Nelly • Quintart aka Quintard | 20230526 | Renée Cassin & Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2023/05/26/story-of-righteous-nelly-quintart-aka-quintard/

Stolpersteine. An art monument by Gunter Demnig. URL https://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/

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Diorama • Sally & Nelly Story #1 • 20250427


Diorama • Sally & Nelly Story, Episode #1 • French film with English subtitles.

English text below – Français au bas

Renée Cassin , goddaughter of Nelly Quintart , shows Michel van der Burg the miniature diorama she made in a glass showcase, with scenes of Belgian Resistance fighter Nelly Quintart hiding the Jewish Frankenthal family (Esther, Adolphe, and daughter Sally) at her place, 13 Rue Marie-Thérèse in Brussels, from September 1942 until the liberation in 1944, and a scene with the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ medal for Nelly — recommended by Sally Frankenthal to Yad Vashem in the 1990s.
The film also features the original briefcase used by Nelly to secretly buy the daily food for all from multiple grocery stores.

Recorded April 11, 2025, in Guesthouse Marie-Thérèse – across the street of that historical site — on our way to the installation ceremony of the Sally Frankenthal Stolperstein, a stumbling stone to recall passers-by to the story of Sally & Nelly.

FR (French – Français)

Renée Cassin, filleule de Nelly Quintart, montre à Michel van der Burg le diorama miniature qu’elle a réalisé dans une vitrine, avec des scènes de la résistante belge Nelly Quintart cachant la famille juive Frankenthal (Esther, Adolphe et leur fille Sally) chez elle, 13 rue Marie-Thérèse à Bruxelles, de septembre 1942 jusqu’à la Libération en 1944, et une scène avec la médaille des « Justes parmi les Nations » pour Nelly, recommandée par Sally Frankenthal à Yad Vashem dans les années 1990.
Le film présente également la mallette originale utilisée par Nelly pour acheter secrètement la nourriture quotidienne de tous dans plusieurs épiceries.

Enregistré le 11 avril 2025, à la ‘Guesthouse Marie-Thérèse’, en face de ce site historique, en route vers la cérémonie d’installation le Stolperstein ​​Sally Frankenthal, la pierre d’achoppement pour rappeler aux passants l’histoire de Sally & Nelly.

Background:

Story of Righteous Nelly • Quintart aka Quintard | 20230526 | Renée Cassin & Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2023/05/26/story-of-righteous-nelly-quintart-aka-quintard/

Sally • 20250411 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2025/04/11/sally-20250411/

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