Kazerne Dossin • Transport XX • 1MEMO_20260420 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Today 15 years ago, the night of April 20, 2011 , at the Courtyard of the former Dossin barracks (Kazerne Dossin) , Mechelen, Belgium , preparing for my 1st interview with Simon Gronowski scheduled the next day, April 21, 2011 at his office in Brussels — while working on our documentary film Transport XX to Auschwitz.
You’ve Got Mail • Transport XX • 1MEMO_20260419 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Today 15 years ago, on April 19, 2011 , Simon Gronowski mailed me photo’s in preparation for our 1st interview scheduled April 21, 2011 at his office in Brussels, working on our documentary film Transport XX to Auschwitz.
Almost certainly, three Jewish people have been recognized in the unique Westerbork film from 1944 (1). This time it concerns the 9-year-old boy Israël Wijnschenk, his father Max Wijnschenk, and his grandmother Betje Kokernoot-van Furth, who all lived in Utrecht (Holland).
Last week, the Dutch public broadcaster NOS (2) reported the news from the Utrecht (Dutch) news site Nieuws030 (3) that it is very likely that three people were recognized again in this film made by the Jewish prisoner and filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer showing the deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti by train in Camp Westerbork on May 19, 1944.
Image researcher Koen Hulsbos — who previously identified an Amsterdam couple in this deportation train (4) — thought he recognized the young Israël Wijnschenk, a pupil at the time of the Joodse (Jewish) School Utrecht, and presented this to Victor Frederik, researcher of the Joodse School (5,6). The boy, the man, and the woman seem to belong together, and were recognized from family photos, also by family members.
It is certain that Max and his wife Chel (not in the images) returned to Utrecht after the war, their children Israël and his sister Kitty were murdered. Grandma Betje was also gassed in Auschwitz.
A portrait of Israël Wijnschenk is shown at the site of Joods Monument (7).
According to the transport list, there were two other children in that wagon, Joseph Beugeltas (11 years old) and Manfred Studzinsky (7 years old). Joseph Beugeltas appeared to have blond hair, and could not have been it (6). To be completely sure, the researchers are still looking for a photo of Manfred Studzinsky, for comparison…
Map of Stompwijk in Holland around around 1865-1870 with the 3 windmills draining water from the Driemans polder in Wilsveen (Map Section 5). Leendert van der Burg, my great-great grandfather, was watermiller at the time on the Middle Mill.
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Map by Kuyper, J. of the former municipality of Stompwijk, around 1865-1870 (currently part of the municipality Leidschendam-Voorburg, South Holland, the Netherlands). Source Wikimedia Commons.
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The story of my great-great grandmother killed by the spinning sails of her windmill , the Middle Mill in Stompwijk, Holland.
My great-great grandmother, Petronella van Dorp, was killed June 9, 1881, by the Middle Mill of these Three Windmills of Stompwijk. A row of windmills built in 1672 to drain water out of the Driemans polder in Stompwijk, Holland.
She was feeding the chickens, when the wind turned the windmill sails that grabbed her skirts and killed her, on June 9, 1881.
She was a miller’s wife — a widow at the time — of Leendert (Leonardus) van der Burg, my great-great grandfather.
Her eldest son Albert (my great-grandfather), a water miller too, and a former Papal Zouave (see below), reported her death the next day at the village town hall in Stompwijk.
Albert must have lost his Dutch citizenship after he had taken up ‘military service with a foreign power’, as a 16 year old boy, joining the Papal Zouaves from February 5, 1868 until 1870.
That might have had consequences for work as a water miller. He married in 1883 and appears to have lived a few years in Vlaardingen (near Rotterdam) – where my grandfather Machiel was born – before returning to Stompwijk with his wife Johanna van der Togt.
Albert’s brother, Pieter van der Burg, married May 8, 1882 with Magdalena de Bruin — a year after the fatal accident of his mother — and was a water miller on this Middle Mill (Middelmolen) in the Driemans polder in Stompwijk until 1892.
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Death Petronella van Dorp. Municipal archive The Hague in Den Haag (Netherlands), Civil registration deaths
Ambachten en gemeenten Leidschendam (1812-1817), Stompwijk en Veur, Stompwijk, archive 5270-01, inventory number 910, 10-06-1881, Overlijdensakten Stompwijk, record number 1881-29 . Permalink https://hdl.handle.net/21.12124/01783BA8766C46A0A57A16DB227ABC38
NL – Grenspolitie controleert St Nicolaas op smokkelen, november 1948 (english below)
De Nederlandse grenspolitie aan de grens met België (in Zundert) controleert de binnenkomst van Sint Nicolaas en twee Zwarte Pieten die per paard vanuit Spanje via België naar Nederland reizen – niet de gebruikelijke stoomboot route. Bewerking film van Polygoon Hollands Nieuws week 47, 1948 | Open Beelden | Beeld & Geluid
EN – Border police checks St Nicolaas November 1948 on smuggling at entry in Holland
Border police in Zundert at the Netherlands frontier with Belgium checks entry of St Nicolaas (Saint Nicolas) and two Zwarte Pieten (Black Petes) travelling from Spain via Belgium to the Netherlands, by horse – not the usual steamboat route.
Edited film from Dutch cinema news Polygoon Hollands Nieuws week 47, 1948 | Open Images | Sound & Vision
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