Buvens’ Story – Transport XX • Miracles Docs #9 • 20260604 🇳🇱🇧🇪 Dutch-Flemish (original) • Subtitles: 🇬🇧 English Open Captions & 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 French, Dutch, Flemish Closed Captions (CC)

SYNOPSIS

Dutch 🇳🇱 — Buvens’ Story Transport XX — Miracles Docs Episode #9 — Documentaire over het verhaal van treinbestuurder Buvens, die in de nacht van 19 april 1943 Transport XX tot stilstand brengt voor een rood licht ‚ op het spoor tussen Boortmeerbeek, Haacht en Hambos. Het verhaal wordt verteld door zijn dochter Marie-José Buvens en getoond in het verslag dat de Belgische Nationale Maatschappij der Spoorwegen (NMBS/SNCB) maakte april 1943, enkele dagen na die aanval op Transport XX naar Auschwitz.
🎬 Korte film van Michel van der Burg & Marc Michiels • Miracles•Media — Nederlandstalig gesproken met Engelse en Franse ondertiteling. Première op 4 juni 2026 bij Miracles•Media.

English 🇬🇧 — Buvens’ Story Transport XX — Miracles Docs Episode #9 — Documentary about the story of train driver Buvens, who on the night of 19 April 1943 brings Transport XX to a halt at a red light on the track between Boortmeerbeek, Haacht and Hambos. The story is told by his daughter Marie-José Buvens and shown in the report that the Belgian National Railway Company (NMBS/SNCB) produced in April 1943, a few days after that attack on Transport XX bound for Auschwitz.
🎬 Short film by Michel van der Burg & Marc Michiels • Miracles•Media — Spoken in Dutch with English and French subtitles. Premiere on 4 June 2026 at Miracles•Media.

Français 🇫🇷 — Buvens’ Story Transport XX — Miracles Docs Épisode #9 — Documentaire sur l’histoire du machiniste de train Buvens, qui dans la nuit du 19 avril 1943 immobilise le Transport XX à un feu rouge sur la voie entre Boortmeerbeek, Haacht et Hambos. L’histoire est racontée par sa fille Marie-José Buvens et illustrée par le rapport que la Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Belges (SNCB/NMBS) a établi en avril 1943, quelques jours après cette attaque contre le Transport XX à destination d’Auschwitz.
🎬 Court métrage de Michel van der Burg & Marc Michiels • Miracles•Media — Parlé en néerlandais avec sous-titres en anglais et en français. Première le 4 juin 2026 chez Miracles•Media.

Documentary

Daughter Marie-José Buvens recounts her father August Buvens’ (1898–1982) account as train driver on Transport XX (D.A.801) — the night of April 19, 1943, when the train stopped at a red light on the track near the towns of Boortmeerbeek, Haacht, and the hamlet of Hambos. Recorded on video tape June 12, 2001 in Kessel-Lo, Belgium, by Marc Michiels. A transcript from this testimony was published online from 2003 at Marc Michiels’ site Holocaust Boortmeerbeek – XXth Convoy (1).

This short documentary film by Michel van der Burg, co-produced with Marc Michiels (†2021), combines that June 2001 testimony of Marie-José Buvens (1,2) with a recently published ‘Special Accident Report’ of the Belgian National Railway Company NMBS/SNCB (‘Bijzonder Ongevalsverslag’) made April 1943 (3), three days after what became known as the attack on the 20th Convoy to Auschwitz — ‘Transport XX’.

Notes

1) August Buvens, engine driver XXth convoy. Marc Michiels. In : Holocaust Boortmeerbeek – XXth Convoy (website). Retrieved from July 18, 2003 snapshot of the website in Marc Michiels Collection (1MEMO_20260604_3) • Miracles•Media • Text from transcript testimony (2) of August Buvens daughter , Mrs Marie-José Buvens on June 12, 2001 in Kessel-Lo, Belgium .

Holocaust Boortmeerbeek – XXth Convoy • Edition 2003 Website Marc Michiels • August Buvens, engine driver XXth convoy • Retrieved from July 18, 2003 snapshot of the website • Marc Michiels Collection • Miracles•Media • 1MEMO_20260604_3 • Screen capture (note : at french page credit address redacted).

A last revision of Marc Michiels’ site (2016) was republished at transportxxboortmeerbeek.be (posthumous) including a copy of this 2003 portrait page of Buvens (Retrieved June 4, 2026) URL https://transportxxboortmeerbeek.be/eng/starten.htm

2) Excerpt 7 minutes from a 44 min interview by Marc Michiels of Marie-José Buvens (from Kessel-Lo; daughter August Buvens), June 12, 2001 , Kessel-Lo (Video Tape) . Source : Digitized video tape ‘20010612 Getuigenis Marie J Buvens’ (DVD July 26, 2013) Michel van der Burg • Marc Michiels Collection • Miracles•Media

3) Belgian National Railway Company NMBS/SNCB ‘Special Accident Report’ 23 April 1943. Source : Nico Wouters , CegeSoma Report , Senate / State Archives Belgium) • Bijzonder Ongevalsverslag nr. 6 1943, Dossier 308 (A1052/43) 27 April 1943, Dossiers 727-2729 Sabotages 1943, Arch. NMBS/SNCB.NMBS Archive . URL https://www.senate.be/home/sections/geschiedenis_en_erfgoed/NMBS-SNCB/CegeSoma-rapport-def.pdf

Additional

Map : Carte Officielle Des Chemins De Fer Belges (Octobre 1927) Societé Nationale des Chemins de fer Belges. Institut Cartographique Militaire 1927. Scale 1:400.000

Reglement Omtrent de Handseinen. Beheer van Staatsspoorwegen. Brussel, 1922.

DRB Class 50 steam locomotive and freight train video and sound (2011). Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media

Social Edition Film dd 20260604
This ‘social’ edition of the video dd 20260604 has burned in English captions facilitating posting at social media.

Comments & corrections — like for French, Flemish subtitles — welcome : send me a message please via contact form at https://miracles.media/about/ Thanks , Michel van der Burg

Citation info :
🎬 Buvens’ Story – Transport XX • Miracles Docs #9 • Miracles•Media • 1MEMO_20260604_1 • ISAN 0000-0007-329C-0009-A-0000-0001-5 • Short film (9 min) by Michel van der Burg & Marc Michiels • © 2026 Miracles•Media • Source miracles.media/2026/06/04/