Bye Brussels

① memo 20170523 ~ Bye Brussels ~ Thalys train Brussels – Amsterdam , May 2014 , Brussels , Belgium

Heroic Hands

① memo 20170427 ~ Heroic Hands ~ Friend , as you pass by , Honour these hands whose heroic gesture saved those whom the forces of evil had destined for hell .
This corten steel work of Etienne Desmet is a tribute to the heroic attack in Boortmeerbeek by the three young men Youra Livschitz, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon , on the ‘Transport XX’ deportation train – a cattle car train crammed with 1631 Jewish passengers, heading for Auschwitz. They were able to open one of the cattle cars and liberated 17 men and women. Another more than 200 prisoners escape from the train before the German border. The story is told in the documentary film “Transport XX to Auschwitz” – https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/
Filmed last Sunday at the Transport XX commemoration April 23 , 2017 in Boortmeerbeek , Belgium

Attack Transport XX

① memo 20170422 ~ Attack Transport XX ~ Attackers (left to right) Jean Franklemon, Robert Maistriau, and Youra Livschitz 70 years later – April 19, 2013 – in Atelier Marcel Hastir , Brussels, Belgium

Brussels Nightlife

① memo 20170331 ~ Brussels Nightlife ~ Saturday night at the Central Square – Grand Place – March 29 , 2014 , Brussels , Belgium

Sunny Sunday In Brussels

① memo 20170301 ~ Sunny Sunday In Brussels ~ Today 8 years ago (2009) Brussels, Belgium

Brasserie

① memo 20170211 ~ Brasserie ~ Window view from brasserie on the flea market “Vieux Marché” or dutch “Vossenmarkt” in the Marolles quarter of Brussels , Belgium , February 28, 2009

Manneken Pis

① memo 20170210 ~ Manneken Pis ~ Emblem of the rebellious spirit of the City of Brussels , the naked little peeing boy , here gigantic at the 1st Brussels Balloon’s Day Parade and opening of the BRUSSELS 2009 BD COMICS STRIP year , Brussels , Belgium , February 28, 2009