Tag: deportation

Site Of Attack On Transport XX

① memo 20160423 ~ Site Of Attack On Transport XX ~ Site of the attack on the deportation train ‘Transport XX’ – a cattle car train crammed with 1631 Jewish passengers, heading for Auschwitz.
Here in Boortmeerbeek , Belgium, the night of April 19, 1943, three young men from Brussels – Youra Livschitz, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon – attacked and stopped this cattle car train, succeeded in opening one of the cars and liberate 17 people. Another more than 200 others could jump out also before the train reached the German border. Site filmed May 15, 2011.

Memory Track

① memo 20160421 ~ Memory Track ~ Régine Krochmal and Francine Mayran listening to the poem “Ce que j’ai encore à vous dire” by Serge Smulevic – read by his cousin Georges Rakier – at the 2011 commemoration of Transport XX in Boortmeerbeek , Belgium

Oh My Kinneret – Ameet

① memo 20160420 ~ Oh My Kinneret – Ameet ~ “Oh my Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) … oh my Kinneret did you exist, or did I dream a dream. From Ameet Kanon singing Ve’ulai to honor her great-grandmother’s memory – who was three-months pregnant that night on April 1943 in Belgium, when she jumped from the fast moving 20th Train heading for Auschwitz. Los Angeles , Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014 – Here a link to her complete song Ve’ulai.

Himno De La Paz … Transport XX

① memo 20160418 ~ Himno De La Paz … Transport XX ~ The Crescendo choir (conductor : Urbain Van Asch) sings “El Himno De La Paz” (Peace Hymn) during the Transport XX commemoration yesterday (April 17) in Boortmeerbeek , Belgium