Youtube Creator Top 25 Award • Transport XX • @1MEMO 20251021

#24 Most Viewed Today on YouTube • TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels

My ‘Channel 012’ ranked the #24 Most Viewed Today YouTube channel in the Netherlands on the first day after uploading the captivating video Transport XX . The next day again it reached #23 Most Viewed Today.

Channel012 ranking was #68 in Most Viewed (This Week) , a week after uploading Transport XX.

Channel012 is renamed Michel van der Burg | Miracles • Media Both usernames and links work :
@channel012
@michelvanderburg
https://www.youtube.com/channel012
https://www.youtube.com/michelvanderburg

Pioneer

Google purchased YouTube late 2006. I started late 2007, with a first upload. Between ~ 2007-2011 channel pages were equipped with view counters, bulletin boards, and were awarded badges for various rank-based achievements, such as ” “#68 – Most Viewed (This Week)”. The term “gurus” on YouTube referred to a specific category of content creators who focused on education. This category helped establish YouTube as a platform for influencers. You could change your account type to eg. Director, Comedian, Musician.

Notes

TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels

The film was uploaded close to midnight April 19th, 2009, registered by YouTube as April 20th, 2009.
This short documentary is a video impression (2009) of the confrontation of passers-by with the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels, that presented photographic portraits of 1,200 of the 1,631 Jewish prisoners deported with the 20th train convoy to Auschwitz , the night of April 19th in 1943. Half an hour after the departure of this transport XX three young Belgians from Brussels, Youra Livschitz, Jean Franklemon and Robert Maistriau stopped the train between Boortmeerbeek and Haacht, opened one of the cars and liberated 17 prisoners. Later before the train reaches the German border over 200 other prisoners decide to attempt to escape and also jump out of the cars. This was the only documented attack on a death train during the Holocaust.

A 1minute edition of Transport XX premiered in the Paradiso theater in Amsterdam Nov. 28, 2010 – in The One Minutes – Where history starts …film festival . Here the registration :
Transport XX in Paradiso | The One Minutes Collection | 20200607 | URL https://youtu.be/KuyQzLXQo3g

A behind the scenes film of the making of this film was published last year : Flow | Miracles Moment #1 | 20240513 | URL https://youtu.be/iwQQLvGtUm0

The original post at imichel.com URL https://www.imichel.com/2009/04/transport-xx-installation-brussels.html Repost at michelvanderburg.com :
TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | imichel•com | 20090419 | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2009/04/19/transport-xx-installation-brussels-imichelcom-20090419/

#YouTube #creator #award #BTS #making #top #guru #badge #channel012 #street #art #TransportXX #views #holocaust #channel #remembrance #education #KazerneDossin #Brussels #war

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Solo • 20251015

Still from the film Street Art Simon (1). Detail from the first scene of the street art mural created by the Liège artist HYER , depicting the story of Simon Gronowski in the Garden of Remembrance of the S2J School Center in Liège, Belgium.
This scene shows the moment that Simon jumps, solo, when pushed to freedom by his mother, Chana Kaplan, who is standing in the opening of the sliding door of the freight car of Transport XX — the 20th deportation train heading to Auschwitz on the night of the 19th April 1943 at Cuttecoven (Kuttekoven) in Belgium, some 50 km (30 miles) before the border with Germany .

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1. Street Art Simon – CC | Miracles Docs #6 | Miracles•Media | 20251012 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/10/12/street-art-simon-miracles-docs-6-cc-⚙-🇬🇧🇫🇷-20251012/

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Saint Sepulcre Moments • Miracles Docs #8 • 20250918

Moments from a vibrant testimony and jazz by Simon Gronowski at the Saint-Sépulcre school in Liège, Belgium, 19 november 2013.

The Institut Saint-Sépulcre (now S2J School Center) hosted 3 sessions with Simon Gronowski that day for different age groups, including adults in the evening — and, in between, an intimate jazz moment was created in the surreal ambience of the school’s chapel.

Thanks to friends Philippe Renette (co-producer), Simon Gronowski, Koenraad Tinel (Photo Dieter Telemans featured in Die Welt , Saturday 16th Nov 2013 – Feinde wie wir, by Felix Stephan) and Patrick (assisting with sound), staff Marc Belleflamme and André Hérin, and teachers Christine Marchal, Ingrid Lothe, others, and the Saint-Sépulcre students.
Special thanks to the students Hélène, Charline, Tristan, Kimberley, Elodie, Farah, Esther, Estelle, Laetitia, Catherine, Tracy, and Pauline for making possible the unique events that month in 2013 for this Miracles film project.

Filmed by Michel van der Burg at the Station Liège-Guillemins, and Institut Saint-Sépulcre , Liège, Belgium, 19 november 2013.

Saint Sepulcre Moments | Miracles Docs #8 | Miracles•Media | 20250918

Notes

French talks with English subtitles in open captions (OC).

Miracles Docs #8 :

The first French edition was published in 2022 as Simon Stompin’ at the Saint Sépulcre | Miracles•Media | 20221119 | ISAN 0000-0007-329C-0008-C-0000-0001-0 .

The here presented, second, edition is titled ‘Saint Sepulcre Moments’ and has open captions (burned in) showing English subtitles.

Transport XX Boortmeerbeek 2025 • @1MEMO 20250423

“Zog nit keyn mol” – Never Say … the Yiddish Partisan Song written in 1943 by Hirsh Glick.

Special, limited, Transport XX commemoration this year in Boortmeerbeek, Belgium on 21th April 2025.

Notes

Photo, video, thanks to Michel Baert and Nick Doms, Municipal council Boortmeerbeek.

Watch also the entire Boormeerbeek Crescendo choir singing “Zog nit keyn mol” here
https://youtu.be/FmXmhzzuUc4

Citation info : Transport XX Boortmeerbeek 2025 • Miracles•Media | 20250423

In Memoriam Ward Adriaens • 20241119

Ward Adriaens, Kazerne Dossin, ca 2005 • Still from the 2012 film ‘Transport XX to Auschwitz’ • Miracles•Media • 20241119_1 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/

November 2024. Ward Adriaens Passed Away

by Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media

Ward Adriaens (Mechelen, Belgium) passed away suddenly on the evening of November 15th, 2024. A wonderful man, a freethinker, author, with a passion for living history, especially the resistance, partisans, in World War II, and the founding director in 1995 of the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (JMDR) that opened its doors in 1996. In 2012 the JMDR became the Kazerne Dossin museum, with Ward Adriaens as honorary curator. In 2005 Ward Adriaens launched the Give Them a Face archival project. The portraits of all Jewish, Roma and Sinti deportees which passed through the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks, transit camp, Mechelen) in 1942-1944, were scanned to create the “Give Them a Face” portrait collection. All around 20,000 photos in the Give Them a Face portrait collection are now part of the commemoration wall – a permanent exhibition – at the Kazerne Dossin museum.

In 2009 , I first encountered the Transport XX installation in Brussels, and met Ward Adriaens’ team of the Give Them a Face project in the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance in Mechelen, Belgium (1,2).

Next , Ward Adriaens participated in our 2012 documentary Transport XX to Auschwitz (3).

Recently, May 2024, Ward Adriaens’ opening speech at the TRANSPORT XX installation in Mechelen in 2007, was posted in the ‘Miracles’ project at Miracles•Media (4).

Quote

“…Let us clearly understand that this is the fundamental basis of racism: persecuted because we have a mother. We all have parents and many amongst us have children. In order to protect them it is essential that we do not give an inch to racism. Everyone of us will come under threat should the policy makers be influenced by racism…”

We lost Ward Adriaens… way too soon…

Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media

Notes

1. Encounter • Miracles Docs #1 • Miracles•Media • 20240419 • URL https://miracles.media/2024/04/19/20240419/

2. Faces • Miracles Photo Story #1 • Miracles•Media • 20240419 • URL https://miracles.media/2024/04/19/faces-miracles-photo-story-1-20240419/

3. Ward Adriaens’ interview by the dutch reporters Piet de Blaauw & Aart Zeeman (Dutch NCRV-Netwerk broadcast, 13 April 2005, NL1) from the documentary ‘Transport XX to Auschwitz’ – a film by Karen Lynne & Richard Bloom and Michel van der Burg • In : Documentary film “Transport XX to Auschwitz” • Miracles•Media • 20130419 • URL (retrieved 20241119) https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/

Ward Adriaens • Film clip ‘Transport XX to Auschwitz’ • Miracles•Media • 20241119_2 • URL (retrieved 20241119) https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxBThndqEFjIk8Oq0-bbKzia9mF-kBe-2N

4. Speech by Ward Adriaens, Curator of The JMDR, Friday 20th April 2007. In : TRANSPORT XX installation Mechelen • Miracles•Media • 20240518

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Transport XX Köln 2008 | 20240720

Transport XX Köln 2008 | Collection Marc Michiels | Miracles•Media | 20240720 | TakeNode 4c18fc2a-e4bc-4485-8380-aa3a260b3a5d

Following the first installation May 2007 in Boortmeerbeek (Belgium) of the 4 canvases with portraits of the attackers and the escapees of Transport XX (1), the installation was next shown in Cologne (Köln) January 26-27, 2008, at the Cologne Central Station (Köln Hauptbahnhof), in front of the Cologne Cathedral – image installation above.

The information – DE, German language, quoted below – on this ‘ Poster campaign “Resistance and Survival” ‘ was published in 2010 at the Open Memory site by the ‘Initiative “Bahn erinnern“ ‘ from Köln (2).

Here the English translation (by Michel van der Burg, with an update of the quoted numbers in Notes*)

Resistance and survival: The 20th deportation train in Belgium

Poster exhibition 26 – 27 January 2008, Cathedral square, Cologne Central Station

The outstanding action against deportation trains of the Deutschen Reichsbahn, transporting Jews to the extermination camps, took place in Boortmeerbeek (Belgium). On April 19, 1943, three men stopped the train on the way to Auschwitz, opened a wagon, and thus enabled 17 people to escape. A further 215 people were able to free themselves before the German border, 119 of them survived the Nazi terror thanks to the support of the people in Belgium. *

In cooperation with Boortmeerbeek and the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (JMDR) in Mechelen, the “Bahn erinnern” Initiative displayed four large billboards on the Cathedral square of the Cologne Central Station, commemorating this resistance action.

In short contributions, guests from Belgium and members of the Initiative described the course of the action and focused in particular on the widespread resistance of the population against the persecution of Jews in Belgium. Their courageous advocacy for the persecuted saved more than half of the Jewish population from extermination by the Nazis.

Widerstand und Überleben: Der 20. Deportationszug in Belgien

Plakatausstellung 26. – 27.1.2008 Bahnhofsvorplatz Köln

Die herausragende Aktion gegen Deportationszüge der Deutschen Reichsbahn, die Juden in die Vernichtungslager transportierten, fand in Boortmeerbeek (Belgien) statt. Am 19. April 1943 wurde der Zug auf dem Weg nach Auschwitz von drei Männern angehalten, ein Waggon geöffnet und so 17 Menschen die Flucht ermöglicht. Bis zur deutschen Grenze konnten sich weitere 215 Menschen selbst befreien, 119 von ihnen überlebten durch die Unterstützung der Bevölkerung in Belgien den Nazi-Terror. *

In Zusammenarbeit mit der Stadt Boortmeerbeek und dem Jüdischen Deportations- und Widerstandsmuseum in Mechelen zeigte die Initiative „Bahn erinnern“ auf dem Vorplatz des Kölner Hauptbahnhofs vier große Plakatwände, die an diese Widerstandsaktion erinnern.

In kurzen Beiträgen beschrieben Gäste aus Belgien und Mitglieder der Initiative den Verlauf der Aktion und gingen insbesondere auf den von der Bevölkerung breit getragenen Widerstand gegen die Judenverfolgung in Belgien ein. Deren couragiertes Eintreten für die Verfolgten rettete mehr als die Hälfte der jüdischen Bevölkerung vor der Vernichtung durch die Nazis.

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*Update numbers : A total of 238 deportees managed to escape from the train, however 90 were soon recaptured and put on the next convoy, 26 were shot dead and 122 succeeded in their escape (3).

Installation : The four large canvases of three meters high and five meters wide are 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 Brussels’ men who stopped the train, Youra (Georges) Livschitz, Jean Franklemon and Robert Maistriau. Portraits are mostly from the State Archives, Brussels, digitized by Kazerne Dossin / JMDR (Mechelen, Belgium) for the project ‘Give them a face’.

1. Canvases Transport XX – Boortmeerbeek | Collection Marc Michiels | Miracles•Media | 20240418

2. Initiative “Bahn erinnern”. Open Memory. URL http://open-memory.info/bahnerinnern . Retrieved Nov 27, 2013.

3. TRANSPORT XX installation Mechelen | Miracles•Media | 20240518

4. Marc Michiels – the Boortmeerbeek expert author on the history of Transport XX, and longtime coordinator of the annual Transport XX commemorations in Boortmeerbeek – wrote , that the “…four canvases ….were loaned to the German Democratic youth in 2008 for the exhibition ‘Deportationen mit einem Güterwaggon auf dem Bahnhofsvorplatz’ at the Cologne train station. Translation by Michel van der Burg, from Michiels’ dutch book :
Het XXste transport naar Auschwitz (2019). Marc Michiels, Mark Wijngaert (eds. Davidsfonds / Standaard Uitgeverij). ISBN 9789059089808

5. Installation Open Memory | Miracles•Media | 20240715

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Installation Open Memory • 20240715

Open Memory Installation Transport XX • Miracles•Media • 20240715_01 | Hohenzollern Bridge, Cologne, Germany, May 2010

German (DE) annual report 2010 by the NS-Documentation Center of the City of Cologne, of the May 8-24, 2010, expo ‘Open Memory’ in Cologne (Köln) Germany.

DE
Gedenk-Installation Open Memory | NSDOK Jahresbericht 2010 | NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln

Vom 8. bis zum 24. Mai 2010 war an prominenter Stelle in Köln — vor der Hohenzollernbrücke in direkter Nähe zum Museum Ludwig und parallel zu den Gleisen des Hauptbahnhofes — die Gedenk-Installation »open memory« zu sehen. Sie bestand aus 26 großformatigen Transparenten (20 Stück im Format 3×5m und 6 Stück im Format 3 × 4 m), auf denen Portraits von mehr als 1.500 Personen abgebildet waren. Mit dieser Ausstellung unter freiem Himmel sollte an drei Ereignisse erinnert werden, die sich zu diesem Zeitraum jährten: Das Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Europa am 8. und 9. Mai 1945, den 70. Jahrestag des Überfalls der deutschen Wehrmacht auf die Beneluxländer und Frankreich und den 70. Jahrestag der Deportation der Sinti und Roma aus Köln und dem Rheinland.

Angeregt durch eine Idee der Kölner Initiative »Die Bahn erinnern«, beteiligten sich die »Projektgruppe Jawne im Verein EL-DE-Haus e.V.«, der Jugendclub Courage, der Rom e.V., der Arbeitskreis der NS-Gedenkstätten in NRW sowie das NS-DOK an der beeindruckenden Präsentation. Die Ausstellung selbst war von zwei Kooperations- partnern angefertigt worden. Das Museum La Coupole (Centre d’Histoire et de Memoire du Nord-Pas-de-Calais in Saint Omer, Nordfrankreich) hatte sechs Transparente mit Fotografien oder Silhouetten von 351 Sinti und Roma erstellt, die im »Transport Z« im Januar 1944 aus Nordfrankreich und Belgien in das Vernichtungslager Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert worden waren. Auf zwanzig Transparenten waren die Portraits von 1.200 jüdischen Menschen zu sehen, die im April 1943 mit dem »XX. Transport« von Belgien nach Auschwitz deportiert wurden. Diese Ausstellung wurde vom jüdischen Deportations und Widerstandsmuseum in Mechelen (Belgien) erarbeitet. Der »XX. Transport« ist der einzige Deportationszug in Europa, der von einer Widerstandsgruppe gestoppt wurde.
Eröffnet wurde die Gedenk-Installation am geschichtsträchtigen 8. Mai von dem Überlebenden Simon Gronowski aus Brüssel, der von dem »XX Transport« fliehen konnte, weil der Zug gestoppt worden war, und Gitta R. aus Köln, einer Romni, deren Verwandte während des Nationalsozialismus ermordet wurden. Den musikalischen Rahmen der Eröffnungsveranstaltung gestalteten zwei junge Rom, Sebastian und Dean, sowie die Gruppe Bejarano & Microphone Mafia. Die Gedenk-Installation erfuhr große Anerkennung und Zuspruch. Die Präsentation der Ausstellung im öffentlichen Raum sowie die direkte Nähe zu den Gleisen der Bahn, ohne die die Deportationen nicht hätten durchgeführt werden können, machten diese Form der Begegnung mit der NS-Geschichte zu einem besonderen Ereignis.

Notes

NSDOK Jahresbericht 2010 . NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln. | Annual report 2010, NS-Documentation Center of the City of Cologne. https://museenkoeln.de/ns-dokumentationszentrum

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