Embrace – Viviane’s Story

Embrace ~ Viviane’s Story. New title and other updates in this new ‘e-book’ edition of film ‘Full of Life … Escape from Transport XX’ previously published April 19 , 2018 film. ① memo 20190415 ~ Embrace ~ Miracles.Media

Album Didier Jans Presentation

FR – Le chanteur Didier Jans et Béatrice Dethy, auteur de ses chansons, ont présenté ensemble leur dernier album “Remettre à zéro les compteurs” à Simon Gronowski, après avoir été témoin du témoignage de Simon devant les élèves du Centre d’enseignement libre S2J, mardi 19 février 2019 à l’Institut Saint-Sépulcre , Liège, Belgique.

LIBÉRÉS – en hommage à l’amitié entre Simon Gronowski et Koenraad Tinel
L’album comprend la chanson LIBÉRÉS – réalisée en hommage à l’extraordinaire amitié entre Simon Gronowski et Koenraad Tinel – et inspirée du télé documentaire belge ‘Enfants de guerre’ (de la réalisatrice flamande Marianne Soetewey – VRT, 2012) et du livre ENFIN LIBÉRÉS (2013, Renaissance du Livre) que Simon et Koenraad ensemble fait sur leur amitié.
Didier et Béatrice ont présenté leur album à Koenraad Tinel il y a deux semaines (lien ci-dessous).

LIBÉRÉS – Didier Jans – album Remettre à zéro les compteurs

EN – Singer Didier Jans and Béatrice Dethy, author of his songs, together presented their latest album ‘Remettre à zéro les compteurs’ (Push The Reset Button) to Simon Gronowski , after witnessing Simon’s testimony for students of the S2J school center (Centre d’enseignement libre S2J) last tuesday Feb. 19 , 2019 in the Saint-Sépulcre Institute in Liège , Belgium.

LIBERATED – tribute to the friendship between Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel
The album includes the chanson ‘Liberated’ (LIBÉRÉS)- made in tribute to the extraordinary friendship between Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel – was inspired by the belgian tv documentary War Children (flemish director Marianne Soetewey- VRT, 2012) , and the book Liberated at Last (ENFIN LIBÉRÉS – 2013, Renaissance du Livre) that Simon and Koenraad together made on their friendship .
Didier and Béatrice presented Koenraad Tinel their album two weeks ago (link below).

① memo 20190224 ~ Album Didier Jans Presentation

Links :

Didier Jans
http://www.didierjans.com

Push The Reset Button – Album Didier Jans
(presentation to Koenraad Tinel)
https://michelvanderburg.com/2019/02/12/push-the-reset-button-album-didier-jans/

LIBERES chanson Liberated , Didier Jans
https://michelvanderburg.com/2018/11/20/liberes-chanson-didier-jans-2/

Finally liberated after 70 years
https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/03/13/finally-liberated-fr/

Liberated at Last – book presentation
https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/05/10/finally-liberatated-no-blame-no-victim-book-presentation-30-april-2013-in-brussels/mvdb20130430-165947_frames01/

ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI • 20190220

French film, with English translation in CC

ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI

First edition published 20190220

Inauguration of the ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI on 19 Feb 2019 at the hanging gardens of the S2J School Center in Liège , Belgium, by S2J director Marc Belleflamme, with Simon Gronowski.

Notes

This first edition of the film reportage published the next day , 20 Feb 2019.
File : 1MEMO 20190220 ~ ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI.m4v

Updates

20250831 – Added captions with transcription (French) and translation (English)

20250904 – Updated both the post text , captions files (both FR & EN) and reference info .
Files
20250904_20190220_SRT_French (Belgium).srt
20250904_20190220_SRT_English (United States).srt

Push The Reset Button – Album Didier Jans

Singer Didier Jans and the author of his songs Béatrice Dethy together presented their latest album ‘Push The Reset Button’ (Remettre à zéro les compteurs) to Koenraad Tinel last Saturday , Feb. 9th 2019, in the Handelsbeurs theater in Gand , Belgium.

Koenraad Tinel
The extraordinary live performance of Koenraad Tinel last Saturday in the play As Long As He Does Not Know Himself was a great opportunity to watch Koenraad’s live work , and after the show to meet Koenraad and get the chance to personally present him their new album.

Liberated – tribute to the friendship between Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel
The album includes the chanson ‘Liberated’ (LIBERES) they made in tribute to the extraordinary friendship between Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel – inspired by the belgian documentary War Children (director Marianne Soetewey- VRT, 2012) and the book Liberated at Last (2013 ) that Simon and Koenraad together made on their friendship .

① memo 20190212 ~ Push The Reset Button – Album Didier Jans

Links :

Didier Jans
http://www.didierjans.com

Koenraad Tinel
http://www.koenraadtinel.be

Handelsbeurs theater in Gent / Gand , Belgium
https://www.handelsbeurs.be/en

Live performance – As Long As He Does Not Know Himself (Zolang Hij Niet Zichzelve Kent) https://www.lod.be/en/productions/zolang-hij-niet-zichzelve-kent

LIBERES chanson Liberated , Didier Jans
https://michelvanderburg.com/2018/11/20/liberes-chanson-didier-jans-2/

Finally liberated after 70 years
https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/03/13/finally-liberated-fr/

Liberated at Last – book presentation
https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/05/10/finally-liberatated-no-blame-no-victim-book-presentation-30-april-2013-in-brussels/mvdb20130430-165947_frames01/

Viviane’s Story ebook

Coming soon , the free ebooklet Viviane’s Story by Viviane Yarom-Castegnier & Michel van der Burg from Miracles.Media (publisher).
Viviane escaped 75 years ago in the womb of her pregnant mother from the Twentieth Train to Auschwitz.
Isabella Weinreb Castegnier was three-months pregnant that night of the 19th April 1943 in Belgium, when she jumped from the fast moving 20th Train heading for Auschwitz. Isabella escaped with a broken wrist and bruises all over her body, but otherwise without major injuries. Her daughter Viviane – meaning “full of life”, and named so for her will to live and hold tight in her mother’s womb – was born six months later on October 30, 1943.
More on Viviane’s story here in “Escape from Transport XX – to be born 6 months later – Viviane’s story” : https://michelvanderburg.com/2014/04/28/escape-from-transport-xx-to-be-born-6-months-later/ Music : Ameet Kanon singing Ve’Ulai (“And Perhaps”) a capella.
Film ① memo 20190127 ~ Viviane’s Story ebook ~ by Michel van der Burg – Miracles.Media

En Route Transport XX Stop Kuttekoven

① memo 20190116 ~ En Route Transport XX Stop Kuttekoven ~ Short clip 7 years ago during reportage Jan 16 , 2012 – en route the former track of Transport XX to Auschwitz , looking for the actual site Simon Gronowski jumped from that death train , a moment before the train stopped near that little town of Kuttekoven , Belgium – together with Simon Gronowski and our friends : partisan Max De Vries who then had just turned 98 years old († 2014), Béatrice, and Marc Van Roosbroeck (vzw ‘de werkgroep 10 december 2008’) .

EMBRACE – Speech Herman Van Rompuy

Herman Van Rompuy – former Prime Minister of Belgium and first President of the European Council. Speech during the inauguration of Koenraad Tinel’s new work of art ‘Embrace’ , Friday, October 26 – in Ganshoren , Brussels , Belgium.
EMBRACE is a translation of the remarkable friendship between the artist Koenraad Tinel and lawyer Simon Gronowski, who both carry a heavy war history with them.
Embrace is a realization of the De Zeyp community center on the occasion of the 40th anniversary, and is part of the Grundtvig project ‘2WARdS-Europe’ .
EMBRACE – Speech Herman Van Rompuy (20181027) film by Michel van der Burg – Miracles.Media | michelvanderburg.com