Encounter TRANSPORT XX … | 20240228

TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels
February 28th, 2009, Brussels. Day two, of my encounter with the TRANSPORT XX installation outside in the Royal park in Brussels, that presented 1200 photographic portraits of Jews deported from Malines (Belgium) to Auschwitz in 1943. One of the stills and establising video shots made that Saturday morning after finishing long take video recordings of the installation, during a walk from our hotel in the Leopold (European) Quarter via the Royal park direction the historic centre of Brussels. That weekend break in Brussels, today 15 years ago, turned out to be a turning point in my life. Two months later – April 19, 2009 – the film TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels was published.

Notes

2. Original post : TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | 20090419 | Michel van der Burg | imichel.com | https://www.imichel.com/2009/04/transport-xx-installation-brussels.html

3. The one minute film (2010) : Transport XX – face to face | ISAN 0000-0006-C208-0000-D-0000-0002-V | https://miracles.media

4. All editions : TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels | 20090419 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | https://michelvanderburg.com/2009/04/19/transport-xx-installation-brussels/

6. Vlog – The One Minutes – De Waar Geschiedenis Begint Show | 20101130 | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2010/11/30/vlog-the-one-minutes-de-waar-geschiedenis-begint-show-imichelcom-20101130/

7. Kazerne Dossin Frontpage 2012 | 20171130 | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2017/11/30/kazerne-dossin-frontpage-2012/

9. Camera used for both photo and video (720p HD video) of the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels is the Sony DSC-T500 which has a CCD sensor – with global shutter – thus not affected by rolling shutter distortion while panning the installation.

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20240423 – Text update.

First Encounter TRANSPORT XX … | 20240227

TRANSPORT XX — Installation Brussels

February 28th, 2009, Brussels — my first encounter with the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels, that presented 1200 photographic portraits of Jews deported from Malines (Belgium) to Auschwitz in 1943. Turning point in my life. Two months later – April 19, 2009 – the film was published.

Notes

2. Original post : TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | 20090419 | Michel van der Burg | imichel.com | https://www.imichel.com/2009/04/transport-xx-installation-brussels.html

3. The one minute film (2010) : Transport XX – face to face | ISAN 0000-0006-C208-0000-D-0000-0002-V | https://miracles.media

4. All editions : TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels | 20090419 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | https://michelvanderburg.com/2009/04/19/transport-xx-installation-brussels/

Shoah Strips | 20240217

Kazerne Dossin exhibition posters – waiting room train station Gent (Belgium) Feb. 2019.

War Paper | 20240216

Searching for paper earlier this month (for use as video backgrounds) in my library I came across this special booklet on The Mysterious Kazerne Dossin transit camp published by author Jos Hakker within days of the liberation in Belgium – date of epilogue 7 Sep 1944, Liège (Belgium). Printed by Excelsior in Antwerp, published by ‘Ontwikkeling’ in Antwerp.
The paper background I used in ‘Ellipsis … | 20240206’ was created from a page in ‘Le Rire’ by Henri Bergson – Librairie Félix Alcan , 38eme ed. (Paris ), 1932.

Notes

Jos Hakker, de uitvinder van de “Antwerpse handjes” gedeporteerd uit de Dossinkazerne. Kazerne Dossin. URL https://kazernedossin.memorial/biografie/joseph-hakker/

Ellipsis … | 20240206 | 1-memo•com

Viviane – 80 Years After Escape From Transport XX | 20231030

Short impression of Viviane telling her story April 2023 in Boortmeerbeek, Belgium, at the 80th anniversary of the attack on Transport XX near Boortmeerbeek — the Twentieth Train heading for Auschwitz, the night of April 19-20, 1943. Viviane escaped from Transport XX in the womb of her pregnant mother Isabella Weinreb-Castegnier who jumped from this death train, with the help of Elias Gnazik, shortly after the 2nd attack on this train near Bierbeek, Belgium. Viviane was born 6 months later October 30, 1943 in Brussels … and celebrates her 80th birthday today, October 30, 2023, in LA, USA ;) Music : Al Kol Ele by Crescendo Boortmeerbeek Choir .

Full story available in free e-Book download :
Viviane Yarom-Castegnier & Michel van der Burg. Viviane’s Story: Escape from Transport XX… Born 6 Months Later [e-Book]. Boskoop, Miracles.Media, 2019. Distribution [ISBN (ePUB) : 978-94-93147-00-3 | ISBN (pdf) : 978-94-93147-01-0]. URL https://miracles.media/vivianesstory/

Citation : Viviane – 80 Years After Escape From Transport XX | 20231030 | Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media | TakeNode 84175450-c147-4fd9-9039-8ca85995ff46

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Nelly Quintart – Righteous Medal – misspelt “Quintard” | 20230907

New image edition created for post Story of Righteous Nelly • Quintart aka Quintard .

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References

PUSH Opera Epilogue 2020 | Westerborkfilm Images #2 | 20230728

Images from the Westerborkfilm have been used countless times in documentaries and films about the Second World War. Here images screening in the virtual opera PUSH – based on the story of Simon Gronowski – an 11 year old Jewish boy who was pushed from the train – Transport XX – by his mother on the way to Auschwitz — Video clip https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxsM6Rj_HB0xEh4TksbjhIm4EzY81dc4H0

A virtual performance, during the April 2020 Corona virus lockdown, of the epilogue of the community opera PUSH , entitled : Ma Vie N’est Que Miracles | My life is only miracles – hosted by composer Howard Moody. It premiered on the night of the 19th April 2020, exactly 77 years after three Brussels resistance heroes stopped the Nazi train Transport XX, transporting 1600 Jewish deportees to Auschwitz, and more than 200 prisoners escaped from the train before the German border. Info : michelvanderburg.com/2020/04/19 .

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