April 19, 1943 Attack | 20210419

April 19, 1943 Attack | 20210419 | 1-memo•com
The 78th anniversary of the unique rescue action against a transport to Auschwitz (צודי78יָאר איינציגע רעטונג ַאקציע קעגן “אוישוויץ טרַאנספָּארט”) – the 20th transport near Boortmeerbeek in Belgium.

The three young Belgian heroes Youra Livschitz , Robert Maistriau, and Jean Franklemon liberated 17 people during an attack on the cattle car train ‘Transport XX’ – crammed with 1631 Jewish passengers, heading for Auschwitz – and another more than 200 others jumped out also.

Filmed in Boortmeerbeek, 2011 – reflection in passing train of the portraits of the people that jumped from Transport XX. Sound captured later in 2011 in Holland.
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Little Toot

Little Toot ~
Tugboat Maashaven (Maas harbor) greeting from the harbor in Rotterdam, Holland. Little tug build as a steam tug in 1915, now part of the fleet of the Maritime Museum Rotterdam. Little Toot | 20200903 | 1-memo.com

Amersfoort Station

① memo 20170720 ~ Amersfoort Station ~ Filming at the Amersfoort central station (sep 2013) a lenticular print made by David Galjaard ( davidgaljaard.nl ) of that railway station showing war damage to the station photographed after the war in June 1945 (by A. Stakenburg for the dutch railways NS) , Holland

Freight Train

① memo 20170421 ~ Freight Train ~ Steam train passing by somewhere long ago

Halt

① memo 20160422 ~ Halt ~ Holland , 2011.

This german nazi procured class 50 freight train steam locomotive built in 1943 by Societé Franco-Belge was delivered december 1943 to Reichsbahn-Ausbesserungswerk Schwerte.

Water Windmiller Pieter van der Burg | 20140821

Water Windmiller Pieter van der Burg | 20140821 | 1-memo.com | Great-great-great grandfather ‘Pieter’ van der Burg was a water-miller 200 years ago (from 1811) on the ‘Noorddammolen’ (the North Dam Mill) of the “Oude Pijnackerse polder” (Old Polder of Pijnacker) in South-Holland. The Noorddammolen was demolished in 1861 (a few years after Pieter had died) when a steam pumping-engine was build for the job. This picture from around 1900 shows both the similar neighbouring water mills and the steam pumping engine : in the front first the Zuiddammolen (South Dam mill) – then the chimney of the steam pumping-engine at the site were that ‘Noorddammolen’ of Pieter used to be, finally the Noordmolen (North Mill).
Background on the Noorddammolen – That mill had been rebuild in 1577 after the original mill had been destroyed during the Spanish Siege of Leiden. Further note that Pieter had moved to another mill already in 1815. Image source / part of the info : molendatabase.org | Allemolens.nl.

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