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Canvases Transport XX – Boortmeerbeek | 20240418

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Boortmeerbeek, Belgium. May 4, 2007. Images of canvases taken two days before the May 6, 2007 commemoration of Transport XX, with the 2007 theme: ‘Give them a face’ (in collaboration with Kazerne Dossin) and the inauguration of the Boortmeerbeek canvases with the photo selection of the escapees of Transport XX on Belgian territory.

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Parallel to the Mechelen-Leuven railway line, four large canvases of three meters high and five meters wide have been placed ‘wagon-like’ next to each other.

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It shows the portraits of 236 deported Jews who managed to escape from the XXth transport on Belgian territory. The first of the four large canvases also features the three young men who stopped the train, Youra (Georges) Livschitz, Jean Franklemon and Robert Maistriau. Portraits mostly from the State Archives, Brussels, digitized by Kazerne Dossin.

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Fax Canvas Sketch ‘Transport XX’ | Miracles Making | 20240417

Fax Canvas Sketch ‘Transport XX’ | Miracles Making | Collection Marc Michiels | Miracles•Media | 20240417 01

Miracles Making… behind the scenes : Fax of sketch, April 16, 2007, archive Marc Michiels – Coordinator commemoration Transport XX, Boortmeerbeek, Belgium.
Since 2007, in Boortmeerbeek, during the commemoration of Transport XX, parallel to the Mechelen-Leuven railway line, four large canvases of three meters high and five meters wide have been placed ‘wagon-like’ next to each other. It shows the portraits of 236 deported Jews who managed to escape from the XXth transport on Belgian territory. The first of the four large canvases also features the three young men who stopped the train, Youra (Georges) Livschitz, Jean Franklemon and Robert Maistriau.

Fax Canvas Sketch ‘Transport XX’ | Miracles Making | Collection Marc Michiels | Miracles•Media | 20240417 02

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