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Youra Livschitz Pastel | 20230424

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Youra (Georges) Livschitz (1917-1944) pastel portrait, Brussels ca. 1933. Youra together with Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon, attacked the 20th convoy on 19 April 1943, freeing 17 deportees, a unique event in occupied Europe. Filmed April 19, 2023 in the Jewish Museum of Belgium, in Brussels, at the exhibition ‘236 – Land(es)capes from the 20th convoy’ (Invent 03399).
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Lanterns Ceremony Transport XX | 20230423

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Lanterns ceremony today Sunday April 23, 2023, in Boortmeerbeek following a bike ride from Brussels , honoring Youra Livschitz, Robert Maistriau, and Jean Franklemon, who 80 years ago – the night of April 19th 1943 – came on bike from Brussels to Boortmeerbeek to attack and stop with a lantern the deportation train ‘Transport XX’ heading for Auschwitz, and liberate Jewish prisoners from one of the cattle cars.
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Nationale Bibliotheek Bulletin – Viviane’s story | 20230421

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Boeken over de Tweede Wereldoorlog ~ Verschenen in Nederland in 2022 en 2023Download


Nationale Bibliotheek Bulletin – Viviane’s story | 20230421 | Miracles•Media

Nationale Bibliotheek bulletin 4-5 May 2023 in the Netherlands : Boeken over de Tweede Wereldoorlog ~ Verschenen in Nederland in 2022 en 2023.

National Library (Royal Library) Netherlands : Books about the Second World War | Published in the Netherlands in 2022 and 2023.) Royal Library Netherlands

PDF – Page 11
Viviane’s story : escape from transport XX…born 6 month’s later
Viviane Yarom-Castegnier (1943-) (ISNI 0000 0005 0884 2840) | Miracles.Media | ISBN: 978-94-93147-00-3

Download e-Book (ePub with films, and PDF with images only) available both via Nationale Bibliotheek (kb.nl) and via Miracles.Media.

Viviane’s Story in Belgian Newspaper | 20230420

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Report by Tom de Leur and Dirk Vertommen, April 19, 2023 in Het Nieuwsblad – https://m.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20230418_97055388 – screenshot © Michel van der Burg & Viviane Yarom | Miracles.Media / Tom de Leur, Dirk Vertommen, Het Nieuwsblad.

Today 80 years ago, Isabella Weinreb was three months pregnant with Viviane , when she jumped in the night of 19-20 April 1943, around 2AM from the 20th deportation train – Transport XX – from Mechelen direction Auschwitz.

Isabella escaped with a broken wrist , and knocked on the door of this St. Kamillus institute in Bierbeek, where she was helped further on her escape route back home in Brussels. Viviane was born 6 months later at in Brussels.

Viviane, who is now living in the USA, returned this week – on Holocaust Remembrance Day – to the place her mother escaped and saved both their lives, together with photographer Jo Struyven , author Nathalie Strubbe, and documentary filmmaker Michel van der Burg. During the St. Kamillus visit , reporter Tom de Leur made with photographer Dirk Vertommen an interview published April 19, 2023 in the flemish Belgian newspaper Nieuwsblad – https://m.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20230418_97055388 – “Vivianes moeder was zwanger van haar toen ze van de trein sprong die haar naar de gaskamers moest leiden”

Yesterday, April 19, 2023 , Viviane Yarom told her story of the escape from Transport XX, at the Study Day on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the 20th convoy presented by the Jewish Museum of Belgium and The Auschwitz Foundation in the Jewish Museum of Belgium, in Brussels.

In the Jewish Museum of Belgium , the exhibition ‘236 – Land(es)capes from the 20th convoy’ by Jo Struyven and Luc Tuymans, runs until Mon 14 August.

April 19th also the catalog book by Jo Struyven and Daniel Weyssow (Auschwitz Foundation) was published , which includes dutch and french editions of “Escape from Transport XX…born 6 months later” translated from the original english text of a chapter in the ebook published April 19, 2019 : Viviane Yarom-Castegnier & Michel van der Burg. ‘Viviane’s Story: Escape from Transport XX… Born 6 Months Later’. Download available via Miracles.Media – https://miracles.media/vivianesstory/.

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Update — A Story of Transport XX – April 19, 1943 – by Audrey Rogers Furfaro | 20230409

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Robert’s shirt with sewn up bullet holes | 20230409 | Miracles•Media | Shirt the 14 year old Robert was wearing when shot in his chest as he jumped April 19, 1943 from the 20th convoy – together with his parents Bertha and Eddy Rottenberg. Detail of the neatly sewn up bullet holes is shown in the bottom-right image. Photo’s taken Nov. 19, 2012 by Audrey Rogers Furfaro and edited by Michel van der Burg (michelvanderburg.com).

Update — A Story of Transport XX – April 19, 1943 – by Audrey Rogers Furfaro | 20230409 | Miracles•Media | Story originally told April 2008 by Audrey Rogers Furfaro, and next posted Nov 2012 at michelvanderburg•com illustrated with the shirt the 14 year old Robert was wearing when shot in his chest as he jumped April 19, 1943 from the 20th convoy – together with his parents Bertha and Eddy Rottenberg.

Story now updated – with a portrait of Bobby and his parents in Bruxelles, 1941.

Follow link to updated story here https://michelvanderburg.com/2012/11/12/rogers/

A new finding – published at the current 236 exhibition in Brussels – is the location were the family escaped – they were numbers 722, 723, and 724. The Rottenberg family jumped close to Houppertingen, just before the site Simon Gronowski jumped, before Borgloon. That map is showing in a recent video of the vernisage of the ‘236’ project:

236 Land(es)capes 20th convoy | 20230126

More on the Brussels’ 236 exhibition here
https://michelvanderburg.com/2023/01/21/escape-landscapes-from-the-20th-convoy-236-photo-exhibition/

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Romain Baplu & Youra Livschitz • News From Belgium | 20230407

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In the night of April 19-20 at 2 AM the Belgian partisans Romain Baplu, Albert Poncelet, Pieter Schepers (and M. Swinnen)* – operating in the Leuven Partisans group – attacked Transport XX just outside Leuven by building a barricade of tree trunks on the track at Korbeek-Lo, that slowed down the 20th Convoy of 1631 Jews in cattle cars, being deported from the Dossin barracks transit camp in Mechelen to Auschwitz , and thus helped many of the deportees to escape, jumping from the death train, between Korbeek-Lo and Tienen. That was the 2nd attack that night. Earlier , a first attack was performed before Leuven between Boortmeerbeek and Haacht by the three young Brussels’ heroes Youra Livschitz (Dr. Georges Livschitz ; aka Livchitz), Robert Maistriau, and Jean Franklemon, who liberated 17 people during an attack by opening one of the cattle cars.

Romain Baplu from Louvain (Leuven, Belgium) and Youra Livschitz (Dr. Georges Livschitz ; aka Livchitz) from Brussels were both reported on a list of hostages shot , published in the April 15, 1944 bulletin of News From Belgium : …
“A List of Hostages Shot — The names of 15 hostages executed in Brussels after the murder of a German soldier have been published:
Victor Jacobs, of Louvain; Michel Stockmans, of Hougaerde; Edmond Vertongen, of Linden; Désiré Regent, of Kessel-Loo; Julien Ameye, of Lans (France); Henri Michaux , of Herseaux; Maurice Knarren, of Brussels; Romain Baplu, of Louvain; Louis Dewolf, of Louvain; Désiré Lasterman, of Wesmael; Pierre Renis and Jean Simon, of Louvain; Léon Magne, of Nivelles; Joseph Nejszaten, of Sciepe; Albert Meurice, of St-Gilles, Brussels… …
Eight patriots whose names follow were recently shot down by the Germans in occupied Belgium: Albert Romain, of Bièvres; Henry Albert, of Haut-Fays; and Dr. Georges Livchitz, René Lachaud, René Brams, Richard Lipper, Jean-Auguste Leyniers, and René Joseph Emile Denauw, all of Brussels.”
News From Belgium Vol. IV, No. 15, April 15, 1944 | Belgian Information Center, New York (USA) | Harvard Law School Library | Digitized by Google.
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Updates

20240420 : changed Nicolas Poncelet to Albert Poncelet (based on several sources )

*20240420 : changed Marcel Swinnen to M. Swinnen (both Marcel or Maurice Swinnen … retrieved from Huis van het Belgisch Franse Verzet (Facebook, various dates).

*20240420 : Marcel Hollanders also mentioned at site Huis van het Belgisch Franse Verzet (20240419)

1943 News From Belgium • Partisans Attack 20th Convoy

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“Belgian Partisans Release Jewish Deportees — Belgian partisans are reported by the Overseas News Agency , August 20, to have held up and liberated a transport of Jewish deportees en route to Poland. ….
On April 20, 1,500 Jews were being transported from Mechlin to Poland in cattle cars when the train was held up by a band of partisans, who overpowered the German guards …” 1943 News From Belgium • Partisans Attack 20th Convoy
Source : News From Belgium Vol. III, No. 36, September 4, 1943 | Belgian Information Center, New York (USA). | Digitized by Google.
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A 2023 update :
April 19, 1943, at 10 PM the 20th transport left the Mechelen transit camp to deport 1,631 Jews to Auschwitz. Thanks to resistance actions, both inside and outside the wagons, 237 of these deportees managed to jump from the train that would lead them to destruction.

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