Inauguration 19 February 2019 of the Espace Simon Gronowski — a tribute to Simon Gronowski — in the hanging garden of the S2J School Center in Liège , Belgium.
Speech by director Marc Belleflamme and Simon Gronowski in the special presence of Mr. Boonen from the Territoires de la Mémoire, and Ms. Verrekt (administrator) and Mr. Grosch (president) of the Board of Directors.
Film : Michel van der Burg (Miracles.Media) thanks to the S2J school community , in particular Philippe Renette (co-producer).
Mural by HYER, Garden of Remembrance S2J, Liège, Belgium, May 17, 2025.
Unveiling of the street art mural created by HYER , depicting the story and credo of Simon Gronowski in the Garden of Remembrance of the S2J School Center (Centre Scolaire S2J) in Liège, Belgium, on Saturday, May 17, 2025.
In front of the mural Simon Gronowski, and S2J teacher Philippe Renette speeching.
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After running through the woods all night, after his escape from Transport XX, the 11-year-old Simon Gronowski went to this house – a simple house, he trusted – at early dawn on Tuesday April 20th 1943. At the time, the number 14 in the Langstraat street [now renumbered 42] in Berlingen, Belgium.
Mrs Reynders answered the door when Simon rang the bell, and was the first to help Simon to get back to Brussels.
Photo (edited) by Michel van der Burg, taken close to midnight on May 20, 2011.
Mrs Mia Valkeneers recounts her childhood memories, how she and her brother Marcel – both circa Simon Gronowski’s age – were living in Kuttekoven in a house at the railroad track at the time, some 50 meters from the site Simon Gronowski escaped from the 20th deportation train to Auschwitz, April 19, 1943.
That night they woke up, when the train had stopped, hearing the hissing of the locomotive, the Nazis shooting and shouting, and people crying during the escapes from the train, and…the next day, brother Marcel watched an open (flat) car passing by at the track with dead bodies…