Lanterns ceremony today Sunday April 23, 2023, in Boortmeerbeek following a bike ride from Brussels , honoring Youra Livschitz, Robert Maistriau, and Jean Franklemon, who 80 years ago – the night of April 19th 1943 – came on bike from Brussels to Boortmeerbeek to attack and stop with a lantern the deportation train ‘Transport XX’ heading for Auschwitz, and liberate Jewish prisoners from one of the cattle cars.
License info : Lanterns Ceremony Transport XX | 20230423 | Miracles•Media | TakeNode 6a799396-0b4f-4352-85b4-f1a58d27e184
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:
Town Hall Jazz Simon Gronowski’s Orchestra | 20220904 | Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media | Some Of These Days by Simon Gronowski and his Orchestra with André Ronsse (sax, clarinet) – René De Smaele (trumpet, vocals) – Jean-Luc Van Lommel (drum) – Bart De Nolf (double bass) and Simon Gronowski (piano) in concert at the Town Hall of Brussels, Belgium, April 30, 2015. Special thanks to Brussels’ alderman Alain Courtois – Service Seniors de la ville de Bruxelles | Dienst senioren van de Stad Brussel.
( Final edit of yesterday’s film Some Of These Days | Simon Gronowski Orchestra | 20220903 ) TakeNode ID: 9ab6cb2c-262c-4405-be42-8fe55e730d88
Some Of These Days by Simon Gronowski and his Orchestra with André Ronsse (sax, clarinet) – René De Smaele (trumpet, vocals) – Jean-Luc Van Lommel (drum) – Bart De Nolf (double bass) and Simon Gronowski (piano) in concert at the Town Hall of Brussels, Belgium, April 30, 2015. Special thanks to Brussels’ alderman Alain Courtois – Service Seniors de la ville de Bruxelles | Dienst senioren van de Stad Brussel.
Film : Some Of These Days | Simon Gronowski Orchestra | 20220903 | Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media | Remastered clip from DVD edition of the full film ‘Simon Gronowski and his Orchestra — Brussels 2015’ – cropped rough cut #2 film from one of two cameras dedicated for sound recording. TakeNode ID: 7e05dca5-6981-487a-8eae-646ce5bbdccd
① memo 20160215 ~ Mary Magdalene Chapel ~ View from the window at the Chapelle de la Madeleine (Mary Magdalene Chapel) , Brussels , Belgium , Sunday morning, March 1 , 2009
