Singing Swanlets | 20210729

Singing Swanlets | 20210729 | 1-memo•com

Family singing, hissing, and whistling swans and swanlet (Cygnus olor ; dutch ‘knobbelzwaan’) last week in the green canals around Alphen in the Green Heart of Holland.

TAGS #shorts #whistle #sing #swan #swanlet #canal #Holland #GreenHeart #GroeneHart #Alphen #CygnusOlor #knobbelzwaan #bird #hiss #water #bird #attack #family #vertical #1Memo #michelvanderburg

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.
TAGS #attack #escape #Auschwitz #1Memo #MiraclesMedia #michelvanderburg #Belgium #Boortmeerbeek #TransportXX #deportation #rescue #resistance #train #steam #whistle #1minute

All Aboard!

All Aboard!
Looking out a dirty train window on the Leiden railway station last month – with part of the Leiden University Medical Centre building at the left, when the train conductor’s whistle signals All Aboard! (Sennheiser Ambeo mic on iPhone X). Film : 20200229 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com

Hessel

① memo 20160408 ~ Hessel ~ Hessel van der Kooy whistling in his Café “De Groene Weide”, on the Dutch Terschelling , March 27, 2009 – he also sang that night the magnificent duet “One Heart” with daughter Tess ( youtube.com/michelvanderburg )

Update Nov 2 , 2016 – New title “Hessel” ; also updated the video with this burned in title
(original title was : Terschelling Island Whistler Hessel )