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.
Tag: HOLOCAUST
Transport XX – herdenking 2016
Transport XX herdenking 2016 – “Een radicale keuze…” – Update April 22
① memo 20160419 ~ Radical Choice … Transport XX” ~ 2016 commemoration , theme “A radical choice…” in Boortmeerbeek , Belgium , April 17, 2016 .
Video online 19 April 2016.
UPDATE video 22 April 2016.
Film : Michel van der Burg – michelvanderburg.com | 1-memo.com .
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
Bella Ciao … Transport XX
① memo 20160417 ~ Bella Ciao … Transport XX ~ The Crescendo choir (conductor : Urbain Van Asch) sings Bella Ciao during today’s Transport XX commemoration in Boortmeerbeek , Belgium
Auschwitz Track
① memo 20160416 ~ Auschwitz Track ~ Train tracks in concentration camp in Oświęcim ( Auschwitz ) , Poland , May 2012
Gouda Polak Family
① memo 20160415 ~ Gouda Polak Family ~ I stumbled across more stumbling stones (Stolpersteine) May 2014 in the sidewalk before Fluwelensingel 33 in Gouda where in 1942 the dutch family Henri Polak lived – Henri (optician) , his wife Henriëtte, and son Arnold (optician) when they were deported and killed in Auschwitz and Mauthausen that year. Also by chance I spoke the current occupant in front of his house – just returning from shopping in town – who told me they had had a little jewelery shop at the central Market Square (‘Markt’) in Gouda.
Stumbling Stones
① memo 20160413 ~ Stumbling Stones ~ Walking in the Maiselova street in Josefov , the Jewish quarter of Prague ( Praha , Czech Republic ) on March 30 , 2012 , these three brass ‘stumbling stones’ (German : Stolpersteine) in the sidewalk caught my eye.
If you look closely, you will see the three names of Alois Bergmann, born 1899, his wife, Beila Bergmannová, born in 1897, and their 11-year old daughter Růžena Bergmannová, born 1931 – all deported in 1942 via the concentration camp in Theresienstadt (Terezín, Czech Republic) to the Baranoviči extermination camp (Belorussia) where they were murdered.
Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) is a project of the german artist Gunter Demnig to remember the victims of National Socialism by installing commemorative brass ‘stones’ in the pavement in front of their last address …
Today in the dutch city Maastricht another 24 stones were installed.
