Scout | Miracles Making | Miracles•Media | 20240415
Miracles Making… behind the scenes : Pegelsveld (Borgloon, Belgium) 16 Jan 2012. Wrong spot, but close… While we film Simon’s story, how he jumped from Transport XX – helped by his mother – we start to doubt whether this is the right place at the track of that former railway line – the ‘fruit line’. There is no trace here of a raised bed, an embankment. Actually there is trench… A local tractor driver confirms that the trains used to run through that gully here, and further on along this railway track just before Kuttekoven on an embankment. He helps with the car route to that spot – in fact only 650 meters further along this railway track – to the actual spot we went, where Simon was pushed by his mother, jumped from Transport XX , rolled along the embankment, and escaped from that 20th convoy to Auschwitz, the night of April 19th , 1943. Picture taken by Michel van der Burg throught the tractor window, of Simon Gronowski and Max De Vries (resistance fighter) talking with the local. Citation info : Scout | Miracles Making | Miracles•Media | 20240415 | TakeNode ac12a23f-14e1-42ed-8342-9038067c4fea
One Minute Transport XX Loop | Miracles Making | Miracles•Media | 20240414 01
Miracles Making… behind the scenes : April 11, 2012. Mailing Marc Michiels (Coordinator commemoration Transport XX, Boortmeerbeek, Belgium) on Wednesday April 11, 2012 the DVD-Video copies of the loop version of the 1 minute film Transport XX. The loop edition was screening continuously at the photo exhibition ‘Our World, at War’ at HaBoBIB, Boortmeerbeek April 16 – May 31, 2012. Citation info : One Minute Transport XX Loop | Miracles Making | Miracles•Media | 20240414 | TakeNode 3f83db67-7ce8-4924-a234-d72de6187be0
Loop Transport XX | Miracles Making | Miracles•Media | 20240413 | TakeNode 1b8f1475-7248-4406-bca8-c423125af406
April 13, 2012. After mailing Marc Michiels (Coordinator commemoration Transport XX, Boortmeerbeek, Belgium) DVD-Video copes of the 1 minute film of Transport XX on Wednesday April 11 , 2012 , two days later (April 13) DVD copies of other editions were prepared for sending Marc – like DVD loop versions of the one minute film and a new 2012 edition Transport XX face <> face.
Screening of the 1 minute film was planned for Marc’s book presentation of Transport XX at the townhall of Boortmeerbeek , May 10, 2012 , with a short introduction by me, and the commemoration Sunday, May 13, 2012.
The loop versions were introduced for a continuous play option at the entrance of the photo exhibition ‘Our World, at War’ at HaBoBIB, Boortmeerbeek April 16 – May 31, 2012. The one minute film was chosen for screening there in a loop.
Citation info : Loop Transport XX | Miracles Making | Miracles•Media | 20240413 | TakeNode 1b8f1475-7248-4406-bca8-c423125af406
Storyboard | Miracles Making | Miracles•Media | 20240412 | April 8, 2009 imichel.com . Upcoming video – “TRANSPORT XX” – installation Brussels BELvue Museum (Bruxelles) – ClipStills. Image later (2013) called a Storyboard. URL https://www.imichel.com/2009/04/upcoming-video-transport-xx.html
Marc Michiels – expert author on the history of Transport XX and coordinator for many years of the annual Transport XX commemorations in Boortmeerbeek, Belgium – unfortunately passed away April 2021 . Some months later his web site ‘holocaust’ (at telenet.be) dedicated to Transport XX was taken offline. Now — when searching for info on Robert Korten – Marc’s predecessor as the first coordinator and founder of the XXth convoy-commemorations – I was happy to to find Marc’s website is back online, now at the appropriate new domain : transportxxboortmeerbeek.be
Citation info : Transport XX Boortmeerbeek – Marc Michiels | 20240309 | Miracles•Media | TakeNode fd808fa3-09f2-4c0d-b9c8-f711a47b05ba | URL 1-memo.com/2024/03/09
Filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer also filmed two of his children in the Westerborkfilm…
Stefan (left) & Ursula Breslauer, children of Rudolf Breslauer, the filmmaker of the Westerbork film at the farm of Camp Westerbork in 1944 – identified by the dutch photographer Sake Elzinga, who received Breslauer’s family photo albums last year when the family of Ursula – the only survivor – visited an expo on Breslauer in the Westerbork museum in the Netherlands.
Camp commander (SS-Obersturmführer) Albert Gemmeker ordered the Westerbork film , made by the German Jewish prisoner, photographer, Rudolf Breslauer in the spring of 1944.
Today 80 years ago – March 5, 1944 – the camp is an ‘Arbeitslager’ – a work camp – when Rudolf Breslauer starts filming the daily life of the Westerbork prisoners — inside : in the barracks, for example a religious service, cabaret, workshops, factories, aircraft and battery recycling, medical care, and outside the barracks : construction of a greenhouse, a football match, women working out, chopping wood, incoming transports, and eventually also the departure of a deportation train. After Breslauer films the deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti to Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz on May 19, 1944 the filming stops. The haunting image of the 9-year-old dutch Sinti-girl Settela, standing in the closing doors of the goods train, and the unique footage of that deportation train that leaves the Westerbork camp, became iconic after the war.
Deportation Breslauer family
Werner Rudolf Breslauer , his wife Bella Weihsmann, sons Stefan and Max Michael (Mischa), and daughter Ursula were deported autumn 1944 from Westerbork to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Only Ursula survived.
Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305 | Settela•Com | Frame 127475 from Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949 9313 | Footage filmed by Rudolf Breslauer in 1944, courtesy of NIOD | Sound and Vision
Scene with Stefan & Ursula Breslauer, starting at 56:13 in the 1986 RVD edition of the Westerborkfilm: Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerbork Film RVD | 20240305 | Settela•Com | URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxfNzA72JeGgVoOFp_VTI4EQQr3yTwXu6_
Settela Film | 20220630 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com
Deportation Westerbork Film | 20210719 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com
