La Cycliste (Alain Séchas, 2005, France) in front of Scott’s Bar at the Brussels Campus of Leuven University, across the Galeries Royales in Brussels, March 8, 2019, International Women’s Day.
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Focus on 1942-1943 deportation reports, browsing the 1943 bulletins of News From Belgium published by the Belgian Information Center, New York (USA) | The University of California Library | Digitized by Google. Film License info : Deportation • News From Belgium | 20230306 | Miracles•Media | TakeNode 35c33c0c-f00f-48b8-929a-8498e5e4d50f
Revue ‘Daar zit pit in!’ – Sylvain Poons Aug 1937, in theater De Plantage Schouwburg, Amsterdam, Holland.
Source: Polygoon Hollands Nieuws | Aug 23, 1937 courtesy of Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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Atelier Dierendonck , Rue Sainte-Catherine , Brussels . Filmed early March 2019.
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Café-brasserie A la Mort Subite. Filmed early March 2019.
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Brussels’ Cinema Nova – Solidarity space contra roundups of undocumented migrants – sans papier. Non-profit Belgian movie theater and space for inter-cultural expression and social critique. Filmed early March 2019.
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“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.
