Cottton Candy Girl | 20140826

Cottton Candy Girl | 20140826 | 1-memo.com | The Amsterdam Nieuwendijk street now reflecting a large print of one of Ed van der Elsken’s early 60s photo’s showing ‘suikerspinmeisje’ girl. | TakeNode ID 331da0c7-fe29-42a0-b590-6832f4256ee4

TAGS #michelvanderburg #1Memo #Holland #Amsterdam #street #Nieuwendijk #photography #EdvanderElsken #wall #youth #suikerspin #woman #girl #reflection #graffiti #renovation #suikerspinmeisje

1955 Amsterdam Rebels Now | 20140824

1955 Amsterdam Rebels Now | 20140824 | 1-memo.com | The Amsterdam Nieuwendijk street now. In the background is a large print of one of Ed van der Elsken’s photo’s showing Nieuwendijk ‘nozems’ (greasers | halbstarken | blouson noirs | teddy boys) in 1955 – currently hanging (with graffiti) outside in the Nieuwendijk street as part of the wall around a renovation site. | TakeNode ID 07a8543d-4143-4c1d-9163-4ac9515e3df6

TAGS #michelvanderburg #1Memo #Holland #Amsterdam #street #Nieuwendijk #photography #EdvanderElsken #wall #nozem #greaser #halbstarke #blousonnoirs #teddboys #graffiti #renovation

Roman Vishniac Re-discovered | 20140823

Roman Vishniac Re-discovered | 20140823 | 1-memo.com | Image taken yesterday at the exhibition of Roman Vishniac’s photos at Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum, 2014. Tomorrow (Aug 24th) is the last day of this exhibition “Roman Vishniac (re)discovered”
In that large picture his daughter Mara poses in front of an election poster in Berlin , 1933 . | TakeNode ID f3281589-fde9-4bd2-a15d-1156ece26eb2

TAGS #michelvanderburg #1Memo #Holland #Amsterdam #JewishHistoricalMuseum #Mara #Berlin #nazi #holocaust #street #photography #war #Mara #RomanVishniac #wall #Jew #resistance #election #interbellum

Water Windmiller Pieter van der Burg

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.

TAGS #michelvanderburg #1Memo #Holland #GreenHeart #GroeneHart #Noorddammolen #Pijnacker #Pieter #PietervanderBurg #polder #water #windmill #watermiller #OudePijnackersepolder #drainage #Zuiddammolen #steam #family #CV

“Transport XX to Auschwitz” film at Festival of Tolerance, Zagreb, Croatia

Transport XX to Auschwitz” –  European Theater Premiere – Festival of Tolerance | May, 2014, Zagreb, Croatia

Croatian subtitles (ministry-of-subtitles.com) and English subtitles (michelvanderburg•com).

“Transport XX to Auschwitz” screening - Festival of Tolerance | May, 2014, Zagreb, Croatia
“Transport XX to Auschwitz” – European Theater Premiere – Festival of Tolerance – May, 2014, Zagreb, Croatia

EN : Transport XX to Auschwitz – Thursday, 22.5.2014, 17:45 – Cinema Tuškanac
During the Shoah, the Nazis, in their quest for the final solution of the Jewish question, utilized thousands of trains from Germany and the occupied countries to transport 3,000,000 Jews to the concentration and death camps. This is the little known, true story of a most remarkable and heroic rescue attempt which occurred on April 19, 1943, the first night of the Passover, at the same time that the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began, some 720 miles away. On that night, Transport XX departed Mechelen, Belgium at 10 p. m. with 1631 Jewish men, women and children for Auschwitz- Birkenau. Half an hour later, it was stopped by three young Belgians armed with only 1 pistol, pliers and a hurricane lamp. This was the only documented rescue attempt/attack on a death train during the Shoah.

HR : Transport XX za Auschwitz – Četvrtak, 22.5.2014, 17:45 – Kino Tuškanac 
Za vrijeme holokausta nacisti su težeći „konačnom rješenju židovskog pitanja“ upotrijebili tisuće vlakova iz Njemačke i okupiranih zemalja kako bi transportirali tri milijuna Židova u koncentracijske logore ili logore smrti. Ovo je malo poznata istinita priča o znakovitom i herojskom pokušaju spašavanja koji se dogodio 19. travnja 1943., na prvi dan Pashe, u isto vrijeme kada je započeo Ustanak u varšavskom getu, 1200 kilometara dalje. Te je noći u 22 sata Transport XX krenuo iz Mechelena u Belgiji sa 1631 židovskih muškaraca, žena i djece prema Auschwitz- Birkenau. Pola sata kasnije zaustavila su ga tri mlada Belgijanca naoružana samo jednim pištoljem, kliještima i petrolejkom. Ovo je jedini dokumentirani pokušaj spašavanja zatočenika, odnosno napad na vlak smrti za vrijeme holokausta.

News

May 28, 2014. Zagreb. Festival of Tolerance. The audience at the Festival of Tolerance valued the film “Transport XX to Auschwitz” with a very good average grade of 4.3 (out of 5).

8th Festival of Tolerance - Cinema Europa, Zagreb, Croatia
“Transport XX to Auschwitz” film screening with both Croatian subtitles and English subtitles in Cinema Europa at the 8th Festival of Tolerance – May 2014, Zagreb, Croatia. The audience in Cinema Europa valued the film with a very good average grade of 4.3 (out of 5).

Simon Gronowski & Koenraad Tinel – Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin – Photo report

Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel present "Finally Free after 70 years" on Sept. 7, 2013 at the 13th Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin
Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel present “Finally Free after 70 years” on Sept. 7, 2013 at the 13th Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin – with Vincent von Wroblewsky (interpreter) and Christine Eichel (host), Joachim Sartorius (Berliner Festspiele), Ulrich Schreiber (festival director), and Joke Schauvliege (Flemish Minister for Culture) in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Photo report (BUM10022V01): Michel van der Burg – michelvanderburg.com