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Cellars Kazerne Dossin • 1MEMO_20260422 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Today 15 years ago, April 22, 2011 — the day after my 1st interview with Simon Gronowski in Brussels, working on our documentary film Transport XX to Auschwitz (see below) — I took this picture at the permanent exhibition in the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance, in the cellars of the former Dossin barracks in Mechelen, below the entrance, where during the war in 1943-44 Régine Krochmal (born in my home town The Hague in Holland, deported with Simon Gronowski, and escaped from Transport XX to Auschwitz) and others of her Austrian resistance group (Österreichische Freiheitsfront) were interrogated, tortured, and imprisoned. The “SS-Sammellager Mecheln” before — now part of the Kazerne Dossin – Memorial, Museum and Research Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights.

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Documentary film “Transport XX to Auschwitz”
Watch online free our full documentary “Transport XX to Auschwitz” – a film by Karen Lynne & Richard Bloom and Michel van der Burg. Post https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/

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Notes

Ward Adriaens, «Het Joods Museum van Deportatie en Verzet (J.M.D.V.) en Getuigenissen», Les Cahiers de la Mémoire Contemporaine [Online], 2 | 2000, Online op 01 maart 2026, geraadpleegd op 22 april 2026. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/cmc/1690; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/15wkg

The Old Fortress of Corfu , Greece – here filmed 29 September 2022 – was used at the end of World War II by the Nazis to imprison the Jews of Corfu prior to their deportation from the island (Ref 1). Greek resistance fighter Manolis Glézos (Sep 1922 – Mar 2020) – who tore down the swastika from the Acropolis in May 1941 – was confined in a cellar there (Ref 2, 3). Last month, 28 September 2022, holocaust survivor Mr Simon Gronowski – escapee from the 20th prisoners’ train convoy to Auschwitz (Ref 4) – spoke in the European Parliament at the Centennial celebration of the birth of Manolis Glézos, on the resistance against fascism, nazism, imperialism and the daily fight for democracy (Ref 5, 6, 7) . Mr Simon Gronowski (born 12 oktober 1931 in Brussels) is celebrating today his 91th birthday … congrats … La vie est belle !
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REFS

1. The Jews Of Corfu – https://michelvanderburg.com/2022/03/10/the-jews-of-corfu/

2. Manolis Glezos – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolis_Glezos

3. International Union of Students (1950). Students Fight for Freedom. International Union of Students. https://books.google.nl/books?id=GlAzAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=fortress

4. Documentary film “Transport XX to Auschwitz” https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/

5. The Left in the European Parliament – https://left.eu

6. Centennial celebration of the birth of Manolis Glezos , 28 September 2022 – The Left in the European Parliament – https://left.eu/events/centennial-celebration-of-the-birth-of-manolis-glezos/?fbclid=IwAR2LSoBGigaN8BJlM1l2UGr6Y3Wb5iN93x8LPij3bjfQmiyRHaqhuI-iNNQ

7. Simon Gronowski conference 28 September 2022 in the European Parliament , Brussels https://fb.watch/g6pL6eFcDN/ and https://www.facebook.com/Gronowski.S/videos/1210996646134703

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