Tag: brussels

First Encounter TRANSPORT XX … | 20240227

TRANSPORT XX — Installation Brussels

February 28th, 2009, Brussels — my first encounter with the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels, that presented 1200 photographic portraits of Jews deported from Malines (Belgium) to Auschwitz in 1943. Turning point in my life. Two months later – April 19, 2009 – the film was published.

Notes

1. Original film : TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | 20090419 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | ISAN 0000-0006-C208-0000-D-0000-0000-Z | https://michelvanderburg.com/2009/04/19/transport-xx-installation-brussels-imichelcom-20090419/

2. Original post : TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | 20090419 | Michel van der Burg | imichel.com | https://www.imichel.com/2009/04/transport-xx-installation-brussels.html

3. The one minute film (2010) : Transport XX – face to face | ISAN 0000-0006-C208-0000-D-0000-0002-V | https://miracles.media

4. All editions : TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels | 20090419 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | https://michelvanderburg.com/2009/04/19/transport-xx-installation-brussels/

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The Abbey by Queen George & Amir Kovalski | 20231201

🎵 All my life I was alive …
I’m sorry …

Listen at Apple Music , or buy in iTunes Store | The Abbey by Queen George & Amir Kovalski – Link https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-abbey-single/1718026913

Song sung by Isabella’s great-grandchild Ameet Kanon (aka Queen George) , who explained today – Friday , December 1, 2023 – at the premiere :

“The Abbey – it’s been so special and personal keeping you to myself, but your message was always too big for me not to share it …

… This is Isabella Weinreb Castegnier. She is my great-grandmother. On April 19th, 1943, pregnant with my grandmother, she jumped out of a moving train headed to Auschwitz. She was being sent to her death, simply because she was a Jew. She understood that it was now or never, die at the destination or die trying, so she jumped. In the years to follow this epic jump, the Abbeys of Brussels became a place of hiding, survival, and safety for them time and time again.”

Listen at Spotify | The Abbey by Queen George & Amir Kovalski – Link https://open.spotify.com/track/0YCgMCYb3O77dsq26Jwwjd

Excellent song … well written !

Citation Info : The Abbey by Queen George & Amir Kovalski | 20231201 | Miracles•Media

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Viviane – 80 Years After Escape From Transport XX | 20231030


Short impression of Viviane telling her story April 2023 in Boortmeerbeek, Belgium, at the 80th anniversary of the attack on Transport XX near Boortmeerbeek — the Twentieth Train heading for Auschwitz, the night of April 19-20, 1943. Viviane escaped from Transport XX in the womb of her pregnant mother Isabella Weinreb-Castegnier who jumped from this death train, with the help of Elias Gnazik, shortly after the 2nd attack on this train near Bierbeek, Belgium. Viviane was born 6 months later October 30, 1943 in Brussels … and celebrates her 80th birthday today, October 30, 2023, in LA, USA 😉 Music : Al Kol Ele by Crescendo Boortmeerbeek Choir .

Full story available in free e-Book download :
Viviane Yarom-Castegnier & Michel van der Burg. Viviane’s Story: Escape from Transport XX… Born 6 Months Later [e-Book]. Boskoop, Miracles.Media, 2019. Distribution [ISBN (ePUB) : 978-94-93147-00-3 | ISBN (pdf) : 978-94-93147-01-0]. URL https://miracles.media/vivianesstory/

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PUSH Opera Epilogue 2020 | Westerborkfilm Images #2 | 20230728

PUSH Opera Epilogue 2020 | Westerborkfilm Images #2 | 20230728 | URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxsM6Rj_HB0xEh4TksbjhIm4EzY81dc4H0

Images from the Westerborkfilm have been used countless times in documentaries and films about the Second World War. Here images screening in the virtual opera PUSH – based on the story of Simon Gronowski – an 11 year old Jewish boy who was pushed from the train – Transport XX – by his mother on the way to Auschwitz — Video clip https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxsM6Rj_HB0xEh4TksbjhIm4EzY81dc4H0


A virtual performance, during the April 2020 Corona virus lockdown, of the epilogue of the community opera PUSH , entitled : Ma Vie N’est Que Miracles | My life is only miracles – hosted by composer Howard Moody. It premiered on the night of the 19th April 2020, exactly 77 years after three Brussels resistance heroes stopped the Nazi train Transport XX, transporting 1600 Jewish deportees to Auschwitz, and more than 200 prisoners escaped from the train before the German border. Info : michelvanderburg.com/2020/04/19 .

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JR: Chronicles LOTTE Museum Seoul | 20230716

JR Chronicles LOTTE Museum Seoul | 20230716 | URL https://www.jr-art.net/exhibitions/jr-chronicles-lotte-museum

JR: Chronicles • LOTTE Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea • May 3rd – August 6th, 2023

After its inaugural exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York (1), and a European tour (2) at the Saatchi Gallery in London (UK), the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (3), and next in Germany at the Kunsthalle in Munich, JR: Chronicles is now for the first time in Asia at the LOTTE Museum of Art in Seoul (South Korea).

JR Chronicles Kunsthalle München | 20230716 | Link https://www.kunsthalle-muc.de/jr-chronicles/

The INSIDE OUT installation in the JR: Chronicles exhibition is screening our original film on Brussels’ Afghan refugees that was published first online for World Refugee Day June 20th 2016 : Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild (4) . This film wasn’t replaced by the special exhibition edition (with updated credits) we offered (Sep 2019) for the premiere of JR: Chronicles in the Brooklyn Museum. We later did publish that new 4K edition online , entitled “Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR: Chronicles Edition” (5).

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Filmography

1. JR: New York Show – Afghan Refugees Inside Out Belgium. URL michelvanderburg.com/2020/02/06
2. JR Groninger Show – Afghan Refugees Inside Out . URL michelvanderburg.com/2022/01/07
3. JR: Chronicles Groninger Museum. URL michelvanderburg.com/2023/03/01
4. Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild. URL michelvanderburg.com/2016/06/20 .
5. Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR: Chronicles Edition. URL michelvanderburg.com/2020/02/05

World Tour Impression

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Sally’s Invasion Star

Sally’s Invasion Star | 20230625 | Family Archive | Miracles.Media | Invasion Star on USA Army vehicle, with “lazy circle”

June 25, 2023 — Contact between the families of Sally and Nelly is re-established !

Sally Frankenthal – Kalwary was living in Antwerp in the 90s when she requested Yad Vashem a Righteous medal posthumous for “Nelly Quintard” .. the lady that had been hiding Sally Frankenthal and her parents during World War II. However, Mrs. Sally Kalwary – Frankenthal was not able to find Nelly’s family …. and the medal went to the Kazerne Dossin museum in Mechelen.

This month contact was re-established with Sally’s family. Unfortunately, too late to meet Sally Frankenthal – Kalwary, who died three years ago.
Sally’s family shared photo’s taken of Sally before and after her hiding — both with stars…posted in today’s update of the Story of Righteous Nelly • Quintart aka Quintard .

References

Story of Righteous Nelly • Quintart aka Quintard | 20230526 | Renée Cassin & Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2023/05/26

Sally’s Invasion Star | 20230625 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2023/06/25

Dossin Archive Coincidence | 20230611

Coincidence — Today I noticed at the Kazerne Dossin facebook page, that last week has been “International Archives Week”.

The stars are aligned…
For over 20 years Kazerne Dossin has had in its archives the Righteous Medal with the name ‘Nelly Quintard’.
We, by coincidence also last week, contacted Kazerne Dossin, and shared our new findings with their Archive team, on this medal – one of their many archive items ….!

The story on Righteous Nelly , discovered together with Nelly’s godchild Mrs Renée Cassin , was published last month in the post titled:
Story of Righteous Nelly • Quintart aka Quintard
[ URL michelvanderburg.com/2023/05/26 ]

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