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.
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