1943 News From Belgium • Partisans Attack 20th Convoy | 20230228

“Belgian Partisans Release Jewish Deportees — Belgian partisans are reported by the Overseas News Agency , August 20, to have held up and liberated a transport of Jewish deportees en route to Poland. ….
On April 20, 1,500 Jews were being transported from Mechlin to Poland in cattle cars when the train was held up by a band of partisans, who overpowered the German guards …” 1943 News From Belgium • Partisans Attack 20th Convoy
Source : News From Belgium Vol. III, No. 36, September 4, 1943 | Belgian Information Center, New York (USA). | Digitized by Google.
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A 2023 update :
April 19, 1943, at 10 PM the 20th transport left the Mechelen transit camp to deport 1,631 Jews to Auschwitz. Thanks to resistance actions, both inside and outside the wagons, 237 of these deportees managed to jump from the train that would lead them to destruction.

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Street Photography Marolles | 20230224

Blaes street shop window, Marolles quarter of Brussels, Sunday afternoon March 10, 2019. Looks like the first camera I used from the age of 13 years – a Voigtländer Vito B of C.
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Kuttekoven Bridge Railway Line 23 | 20230223

Bridge in the village of Kuttekoven (Borgloon, Belgium) under the railway track bed of the historical Belgian Railway Line 23 – the so-called ‘Fruitspoor’ – the old railway line 23 between Tongeren and Drieslinter, that connected Tongeren, Borgloon and Sint-Truiden. Bridge under the deportation railway track from Kazerne Dossin to Auschwitz, right after the site where Simon Gronowski escaped from the 20th convoy. Filmed Jan 2014.
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‘Venice in the Marolles’ Carnival | 20230218

“Venise dans les Marolles” / Venetië in de Marollen. Parade “Les Belles et Beaux” de Carnaval around the flea market in the Marolles quarter Sunday afternoon March 10, 2019.
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TAGS #carnival #carnaval #Venice #Venise #Venetië #Marolles #costume #woman #flea #market #Belgium #Brussels #art #1Memo #MiraclesMedia #michelvanderburg

Saint Catherine | 20230215

Church of Saint Catherine in Brussels, Belgium. Filmed early March 2019.
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TAGS #church #Saint Catherine #Belgium #Brussels #art #1Memo #MiraclesMedia #michelvanderburg

Saint Michel | 20230214

Saint Michael (French : Michel) the Archangel in the Church of Saint Catherine in Brussels, Belgium. Filmed early March 2019.
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TAGS #Michael #archangel #sculpture #church #Saint Catherine #Belgium #Brussels #art #1Memo #MiraclesMedia #michelvanderburg

100 Years • 100 Directors • 100 Films | 20230213

100 Ans • 100 Realisateurs • 100 Films , memorial which honours Joseph Plateau – a genius – one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image with his phenakistiscope .
Work of art by Patrick Rimoux inaugurated 1996 on the occasion of the first centenary of producing films.
Corner of Rue Joseph Plateau and Rue Mertens near the Church of Saint Catherine in Brussels, Belgium. Filmed early March 2019.
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TAGS #cinema #centenary #memorial #illusion #Patrick #Rimoux #anniversary #year #director #film #movie #phenakistiscope #Joseph #Plateau #memorial #church #Saint #Catherine #Belgium #Brussels #street #square #art #Ibis #Novotel #1Memo #MiraclesMedia #michelvanderburg