① memo 20170727 ~ Transit Camp Mechelen ~ Today 75 years ago on July 27, 1942 the “SS-Sammellager Mechelen” collection and deportation camp was opened in the former barracks “Kazerne Dossin”. The building now houses the Kazerne Dossin memorial , filmed here in 2013 – Mechelen , Belgium.
One minute slow-motion of the moment the 9-year-old Settela Steinbach peeks outside in the cattle car door opening on the Westerbork death train bound for Auschwitz – May 19 , 1944 . ① memo 20170725 Michel van der Burg – michelvanderburg.com | 1-memo.com
( unbranded version of video added today to the archives of The One Minutes / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision )
① memo 20170722 ~ Camp Westerbork Filmed ~ In the mail today the dutch book “Kamp Westerbork gefilmd” published in 1997 (ISBN 9023232658) – that I bought secondhand – detailing how the Westerbork concentration camp (in Holland) was filmed by the jewish prisoner filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer and coworkers, and what happened with his rushes later.
The 9-year-old dutch Sinti-girl Anna Maria ‘Settela’ Steinbach peeks outside , at the last moment just before the sliding door is closed , standing inside a freight wagon with 74 people on May 19 , 1944 in the Westerbork concentration camp in Holland , when this deportation train leaves for Auschwitz-Birkenau – where Settela is murdered a few months later in one of the gas chambers. Here she wears a headscarf made from a torn sheet, because the Nazis had her head shaved , and while Settela peeks outside , her mother cries behind her in the car : “Get out of there, or soon your head gets in between!”
She was filmed by the jewish prisoner filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer as part of a documentary film being made on the Westerbork camp. More info here http://romasinti.eu/#story/settela-steinbach
In this short film I start with a slow-motion (10x) of the 3 seconds clip, followed by the unedited clip from the Westerbork 1944 film rushes / Rudolf Breslauer / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Open Images).
Credit
Edited from Westerbork Acte 1 (02-1167) raw footage courtesy of Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid | OpenImages.
Camera : Rudolf Breslauer, 1944, Westerbork, Netherlands .
Film: Settela | 20170721 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com – CC BY 4.0 .
① memo 20170719 ~ Amersfoort Camp to Station ~ Filming at the Amersfoort central station (sep 2013) a lenticular print made by David Galjaard ( davidgaljaard.nl ) on the route prisoners of the Germans Oct 11, 1944 had to walk from the Nazi concentration camp in Amersfoort (Kamp Amersfoort) to that railway station. That day over 1400 prisoners were deported to Neuengamme – including the men from the dutch village Putten. Railway station , Amersfoort , Holland.
July 20 , 2017 – Video updated with different title / and description updated
① memo 20161128 ~ History One Minutes In Paradiso ~ November 28, 2010 (tonight 6 years ago) the Dutch Museum of National History and The One Minutes presented a selection of videos about Dutch History (and personal history of dutch) at the festival “Waar Geschiedenis Begint” (Where history starts) in Paradiso, Amsterdam.
Artists and art students were asked to make a one minute video about where history starts. Special host is artist and theater director Steven de Jong.
This short doc shows the premiere of the 1 minute film “Transport XX – face to face” ( full details here at michelvanderburg.com ) and screening (full or partially) of some others including “Aap Noot Mies” ( by Barry van der Rijt – barryvanderrijt.com – here at The One Minutes Vimeo )
