Tag: HOLOCAUST

Film Filmer Transport XX

① memo 20160228 ~ Film Filmer Transport XX ~ I was not aware that day of this video being made of me while filming in one long take one row of the portraits of the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels, on February 28, 2009.
The short film I made then, and info on the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels , is available in this post on my web site.

Transport XX Take 1

① memo 20160127 ~ Transport XX Take 1 ~ One long take – slowed down –  of the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels, Belgium, Feb 2009
For this film today I have chosen the first take of my Feb 2009 video recordings that were used before in the making of the short film  “TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels” – a work published online Apr 19, 2009 (link below).
For optimal clarity this one-take was slowed down 10 times. Sound is removed. (Note : stabilization was not used in this edit , to prevent zooming in , and loss of portraits at the edge of the image).
The TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels was organised from 27 January to 15 March 2009 by the BELvue Museum in collaboration with the JMDR / Dossin Barracks (Kazerne Dossin). The photographic portraits were displayed outside in the Royal park in Brussels (opposite the Royal Palace). In this way passers-by were confronted with 1,200 faces of the victims.
This event commemorated the release of Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) on 27 January 1945.
Here a link to the film  “TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels”  and info  – NL / EN / FR (English / Français / Nederlands)
Film : Michel van der Burg – michelvanderburg.com | 1-memo.com
Update Jan 28th
The first version of the film (with 5x slowed down video) was replaced – here a link to that Version 1

Left Luggage | 20140908

Left Luggage | 20140908 | 1-memo•com | Left luggage found last Saturday while walking in Leiden (Holland). ‘Bagage’ (Ram Katzir, 2010) in front of the former police station (Zonneveldstraat) where Jewish Leideners were gathered for deportation during World War II.

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Nazi Family | 20140907

Nazi Family | 20140907 | 1-memo•com | Berlin taxi driver anecdote “… my grandfather was a nazi…..”
That night last year in Berlin – Sept. 7, 2013 – returning to my hotel by taxi from the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin ( ilb’13 – at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele) – my around 55 years old Berliner taxi driver told me, he was working only at night for some 20 years now.
Just before he dropped me at my hotel near the Berlin Central Station – after he had silently listened during the ride, to my detailed account of my filming earlier that evening a reportage of the story of Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel at the festival – he finally replied : “I was told only very recently by my father , that my grandfather was a nazi…..” .

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Palette Atelier Marcel Hastir | 20140830

Palette Atelier Marcel Hastir | 20140830 | 1-memo.com | Aug 30, 2014. For future screenings the documentary “Transport XX to Auschwitz” is now included (as of August 2014) in the media collections of both the Atelier Marcel Hastir (Rue du Commerce 51, Brussels, Belgium – ateliermarcelhastir.eu – as well as the Fondation Robert Maistriau (Robert Maistriau Foundation – Belgium and Congo – http://sites.google.com/site/fondationrobertmaistriau/robert-maistriau ) .
The Atelier was a nest of resistance, were the attack was planned by two of the three young Brussels’ heroes Youra Livschitz , Robert Maistriau, and Jean Franklemon, who liberated 17 people during their attack on the cattle car train ‘Transport XX’ , the night of April 19th 1943 – crammed with 1631 Jewish passengers, heading for Auschwitz – over 200 others jumped and escaped that night in Belgium too.
Still from video reportage of Simon Gronowski’s presentation the night of April 19, 2013 at the Atelier — 70 years after the attack on the Transport XX deportation train on April 19, 1943. | TakeNode ID 10cb1857-4045-4693-aa0a-aa2416fb712a

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Roman Vishniac Re-discovered | 20140823

Roman Vishniac Re-discovered | 20140823 | 1-memo.com | Image taken yesterday at the exhibition of Roman Vishniac’s photos at Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum, 2014. Tomorrow (Aug 24th) is the last day of this exhibition “Roman Vishniac (re)discovered”
In that large picture his daughter Mara poses in front of an election poster in Berlin , 1933 . | TakeNode ID f3281589-fde9-4bd2-a15d-1156ece26eb2

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