Transport XX Expo Our World at War | 20240416

Transport XX Expo Our World at War | Marc Michiels | Miracles•Media | 20240416

April 16, 2012, HaBoBIB, Boortmeerbeek, Belgium. Screening continuously of short film Transport XX – one minute loop edition – at the photo exhibition Our World at War, April 16 – May 31, 2012, HaBoBIB, Boortmeerbeek, Belgium | Photo : Marc Michiels (April 17, 2012)
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Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305

Filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer also filmed two of his children in the Westerborkfilm…

Stefan (left) & Ursula Breslauer, children of Rudolf Breslauer, the filmmaker of the Westerbork film at the farm of Camp Westerbork in 1944 – identified by the dutch photographer Sake Elzinga, who received Breslauer’s family photo albums last year when the family of Ursula – the only survivor – visited an expo on Breslauer in the Westerbork museum in the Netherlands.

Camp commander (SS-Obersturmführer) Albert Gemmeker ordered the Westerbork film , made by the German Jewish prisoner, photographer, Rudolf Breslauer in the spring of 1944.

Today 80 years ago – March 5, 1944 – the camp is an ‘Arbeitslager’ – a work camp – when Rudolf Breslauer starts filming the daily life of the Westerbork prisoners — inside : in the barracks, for example a religious service, cabaret, workshops, factories, aircraft and battery recycling, medical care, and outside the barracks : construction of a greenhouse, a football match, women working out, chopping wood, incoming transports, and eventually also the departure of a deportation train. After Breslauer films the deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti to Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz on May 19, 1944 the filming stops.
The haunting image of the 9-year-old dutch Sinti-girl Settela, standing in the closing doors of the goods train, and the unique footage of that deportation train that leaves the Westerbork camp, became iconic after the war.

Deportation Breslauer family

Werner Rudolf Breslauer , his wife Bella Weihsmann, sons Stefan and Max Michael (Mischa), and daughter Ursula were deported autumn 1944 from Westerbork to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Only Ursula survived.

Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305 | Settela•Com | Frame 127475 from Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949 9313 | Footage filmed by Rudolf Breslauer in 1944, courtesy of NIOD | Sound and Vision

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Clip from : Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | Complete Remastered Edition | YouTube https://youtu.be/ZiLNDziwEtc

Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Settela•Com | URL https://settela.com/2022/03/02/westerbork-film-🎦-2021-complete-remastered-edition-20220302/

Kinderen van filmmaker Breslauer herkend in historische Westerborkfilm. Dutch national news broadcaster NOS Nieuws, in cooperation with RTV Drenthe, 13:18 Monday 4 March 2024 | URL https://nos.nl/artikel/2511414-kinderen-van-filmmaker-breslauer-herkend-in-historische-westerborkfilm

Scene with Stefan & Ursula Breslauer, starting at 56:13 in the 1986 RVD edition of the Westerborkfilm:
Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerbork Film RVD | 20240305 | Settela•Com | URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxfNzA72JeGgVoOFp_VTI4EQQr3yTwXu6_

Settela Film | 20220630 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com

Deportation Westerbork Film | 20210719 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com

English introduction to Westerborkfilm :
Westerborkfilm Introduction | 20220507 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | URL https://settela.com/2022/05/07/westerborkfilm-introduction-20220507/

Citation info : Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2024/03/05

Encounter TRANSPORT XX … | 20240228

TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels
February 28th, 2009, Brussels. Day two, of my encounter with the TRANSPORT XX installation outside in the Royal park in Brussels, that presented 1200 photographic portraits of Jews deported from Malines (Belgium) to Auschwitz in 1943. One of the stills and establising video shots made that Saturday morning after finishing long take video recordings of the installation, during a walk from our hotel in the Leopold (European) Quarter via the Royal park direction the historic centre of Brussels. That weekend break in Brussels, today 15 years ago, turned out to be a turning point in my life. Two months later – April 19, 2009 – the film TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels was published.

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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/

6. Vlog – The One Minutes – De Waar Geschiedenis Begint Show | 20101130 | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2010/11/30/vlog-the-one-minutes-de-waar-geschiedenis-begint-show-imichelcom-20101130/

7. Kazerne Dossin Frontpage 2012 | 20171130 | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2017/11/30/kazerne-dossin-frontpage-2012/

9. Camera used for both photo and video (720p HD video) of the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels is the Sony DSC-T500 which has a CCD sensor – with global shutter – thus not affected by rolling shutter distortion while panning the installation.

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20240423 – Text update.

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.

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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/

Deportation | 20240226

Camp commander (SS-Obersturmführer) Albert Gemmeker oversees the deportation of Jews, Sinti, and Roma from the Westerbork transit camp May 19, 1944 .

Gemmeker is the producer of the Westerborkfilm — he ordered the film. Cameraman is the German Jewish prisoner Rudolf Breslauer.

Source : Frame 2608 from Westerborkfilm Introduction | 20220507 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2022/05/07/westerborkfilm-introduction-20220507/

Film | 20240125

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Swinging Stars 1935 | 20240122

After the monster film congress in Berlin, a swinging Saturday night 23 March 1935 in the Amsterdam Carlton Hotel at The First Dutch Film Ball (Het Eerste Nederlandsche Filmbal) organized by the dutch film world (with Loet Barnstein, …Ehrlich…Hamburger…Willy Mullens…Max Tak…Abraham Tuschinski…Kor Postma) both to celebrate the film world and especially to collect money for their foundation ‘Bio Vakantieoord’ ( Cine Holiday Resort ) — founded in 1927 by the cinema owner Abraham Tuschinski and the Dutch Cinema Association (Nederlandse Bioscoopbond; NBB; association of cinemas , distributors and producers) to facilitate holidays in their seaside ‘castle’ on the dutch coast, each month for 90 poor lower class children living in the big cities like Amsterdam. At that time, also , twice a year (the Christmas and Easter weeks), money was collected for that Bio Holiday Resort foundation in the dutch cinemas, but because of the Great Depression donations are shifting from ‘silver’ to nickel …copper . The fundraising went hand in hand with promotional films made by the Dutch Profilti and Polygoon cinema newsreel companies . Next week people would watch this Polygoon news in the cinemas. The newspapers wrote, those present will be filmed, and if allowed by the police , the film will be shown the same night, and many movie and theater stars, filmschlagers, to be present … Harry Baur, Henriette Davids, Jopie Koopmans, Kid Johnson, Reri, Johan Kaart, Frits van Dongen, Henk Alsem.
Dutch news bulletin De groene Amsterdammer had a picture (collage?) with prominent guests (or impersonations?) : Gloria Swanson, Max Tak, Jean Harlow, Loet C. Barnstijn, Norma Shearer, Dr. M. de Hartog, Lupe Velez, Louis Davids, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Sylvain Poons, Myrna Loy, Mariene Dietrich, Wethouder Boissevain, Kor Postma, Theo Ketelaar. And a dutch cinematography news bulletin reported ‘the expected foreign stars were conspicuous by their absence’.

Film edited from dutch Polygoontoon (Polygoon Hollands Nieuws) cinema news reel week 13, 1935 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Jazzy Film Ball 1936 | 20240121 | Miracles•Media

Het Eerste Nederlandsche Filmbal. De Gooi- en Eemlander 13-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011171806:mpeg21:a0107

Een filmbal in Carlton. Het Volk, 19-03-1935. | Delpher | URL https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=MMKB15:000891066:mpeg21:a00076

Het eerste filmbal in Nederland. Delftsche courant 19-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB08:000076473:mpeg21:a0043

Het eerste Nedrlandse filmbal in Carlton. Het Volk 25-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB15:000891071:mpeg21:a00067

Nieuw weekblad voor de cinematografie, jrg 13, 1935, no. 26, 29-03-1935 | URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMEYE02:001535013:00039

De groene Amsterdammer, jrg 59, 1935, no. 3016, 23-03-1935 URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB30:021531012:00014