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Diorama • Sally & Nelly Story #1 • 20250427


Diorama • Sally & Nelly Story, Episode #1 • French film with English subtitles.

English text below – Français au bas

Renée Cassin , goddaughter of Nelly Quintart , shows Michel van der Burg the miniature diorama she made in a glass showcase, with scenes of Belgian Resistance fighter Nelly Quintart hiding the Jewish Frankenthal family (Esther, Adolphe, and daughter Sally) at her place, 13 Rue Marie-Thérèse in Brussels, from September 1942 until the liberation in 1944, and a scene with the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ medal for Nelly — recommended by Sally Frankenthal to Yad Vashem in the 1990s.
The film also features the original briefcase used by Nelly to secretly buy the daily food for all from multiple grocery stores.

Recorded April 11, 2025, in Guesthouse Marie-Thérèse – across the street of that historical site — on our way to the installation ceremony of the Sally Frankenthal Stolperstein, a stumbling stone to recall passers-by to the story of Sally & Nelly.

FR (French – Français)

Renée Cassin, filleule de Nelly Quintart, montre à Michel van der Burg le diorama miniature qu’elle a réalisé dans une vitrine, avec des scènes de la résistante belge Nelly Quintart cachant la famille juive Frankenthal (Esther, Adolphe et leur fille Sally) chez elle, 13 rue Marie-Thérèse à Bruxelles, de septembre 1942 jusqu’à la Libération en 1944, et une scène avec la médaille des « Justes parmi les Nations » pour Nelly, recommandée par Sally Frankenthal à Yad Vashem dans les années 1990.
Le film présente également la mallette originale utilisée par Nelly pour acheter secrètement la nourriture quotidienne de tous dans plusieurs épiceries.

Enregistré le 11 avril 2025, à la ‘Guesthouse Marie-Thérèse’, en face de ce site historique, en route vers la cérémonie d’installation le Stolperstein ​​Sally Frankenthal, la pierre d’achoppement pour rappeler aux passants l’histoire de Sally & Nelly.

Background:

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/story-of-righteous-nelly-quintart-aka-quintard/

Sally • 20250411 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2025/04/11/sally-20250411/

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Auschwitz Survivors In Brussels • 20250418


Short impression (some clips) of my visit on Friday evening, April 11, 2025, to the Atelier Marcel Hastir in Brussels, at the start and closing of ‘Auschwitz, our story’— documentary and lecture by Herman Teerhöfer, with the participation of Natalia and Julia Kotarba of the Karski Quartet.
Herman Teerhöfer of the Smolinski Foundation interviewed 91 Auschwitz survivors over the past fourteen years. Through his documentary Auschwitz, Our Story, he explains how they managed to survive Auschwitz spiritually, oscillating between hope and fear.

Notes

Atelier Marcel Hastir • Auschwitz, ons verhaal : documentaire en lezing (Auschwitz, notre histoire: documentaire et conférence (en anglais ) par Herman Teerhöfer , avec la participation de Natalia et Iulia Kotarba du Quatuor Karski (violon et violoncelle) • URL https://ateliermarcelhastir.eu/agenda/2025-04-11-auschwitz-ons-verhaal-smolinskifoundation/

Trailer (dutch) film Auschwitz. Ons verhaal. URL https://smolinski.nl/wp/blog/2021/10/22/trailer-van-de-film-auschwitz-dit-is-ons-verhaal/

Smolinski Foundation • URL https://smolinski.nl/

Karski Quartet • https://karskiquartet.com

Citation info : Auschwitz Survivors In Brussels • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • @1MEMO 20250418 • TakeNode 9eeb9646-f769-41d6-9b97-ccf27bf5c7a5

Discoveries Deportation Westerbork Film • 20250224

Discoveries Deportation Westerbork Film • 20250224 • The boy, the man, and the woman selected in this edited still of the linked video clip (15 s) URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxBw3eso6Bi3vIaR25h_bDWRHSx5EfMylN

Utrecht family identification , almost complete…

Almost certainly, three Jewish people have been recognized in the unique Westerbork film from 1944 (1). This time it concerns the 9-year-old boy Israël Wijnschenk, his father Max Wijnschenk, and his grandmother Betje Kokernoot-van Furth, who all lived in Utrecht (Holland).

Last week, the Dutch public broadcaster NOS (2) reported the news from the Utrecht (Dutch) news site Nieuws030 (3) that it is very likely that three people were recognized again in this film made by the Jewish prisoner and filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer showing the deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti by train in Camp Westerbork on May 19, 1944.

Image researcher Koen Hulsbos — who previously identified an Amsterdam couple in this deportation train (4) — thought he recognized the young Israël Wijnschenk, a pupil at the time of the Joodse (Jewish) School Utrecht, and presented this to Victor Frederik, researcher of the Joodse School (5,6). The boy, the man, and the woman seem to belong together, and were recognized from family photos, also by family members.

It is certain that Max and his wife Chel (not in the images) returned to Utrecht after the war, their children Israël and his sister Kitty were murdered. Grandma Betje was also gassed in Auschwitz.

A portrait of Israël Wijnschenk is shown at the site of Joods Monument (7).

According to the transport list, there were two other children in that wagon, Joseph Beugeltas (11 years old) and Manfred Studzinsky (7 years old). Joseph Beugeltas appeared to have blond hair, and could not have been it (6). To be completely sure, the researchers are still looking for a photo of Manfred Studzinsky, for comparison…

Notes

1) Deportation Westerbork Film • Edition 2021 | 20210719 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | Footage filmed by Rudolf Breslauer in 1944, courtesy of NIOD | Sound and Vision . URL https://settela.com/2021/07/19/deportation-westerbork-film-20210719/

2) Utrechters ‘vrijwel zeker’ herkend op Westerborkfilm uit 1944. NOS Nieuws Feb 22, 2025. URL https://nos.nl/l/2556858

3) Nieuwe herkenningen in Westerborkfilm ‘bijna zeker’. Jim Terlingen | Nieuws030 . URL https://www.nieuws030.nl/hist030rie/drie-nieuwe-herkenningen-in-westerborkfilm-zo-goed-als-zeker/

4) Amsterdam couple found in Westerbork film • 20241223 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2024/12/23

5) Joodse school Utrecht. Website. URL https://joodseschoolutrecht.nl

6) Israël op Westerborkfilm? Victor Frederik- Web site Joodse school Utrecht. (Accessed 20250224). URL https://joodseschoolutrecht.nl/nl/Verhalen-over-leerlingen/Kitty-en-Israel-Wijnschenk/Israel-op-Westerborkfilm/

7) Portrait of Israël Wijnschenk. Site Joods Monument. URL https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/122045/israël-wijnschenk

Citation info : Discoveries Deportation Westerbork Film • 20250224 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2025/02/24/

In Memoriam Ward Adriaens • 20241119

Ward Adriaens, Kazerne Dossin, ca 2005 • Still from the 2012 film ‘Transport XX to Auschwitz’ • Miracles•Media • 20241119_1 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/

November 2024. Ward Adriaens Passed Away

by Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media

Ward Adriaens (Mechelen, Belgium) passed away suddenly on the evening of November 15th, 2024. A wonderful man, a freethinker, author, with a passion for living history, especially the resistance, partisans, in World War II, and the founding director in 1995 of the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (JMDR) that opened its doors in 1996. In 2012 the JMDR became the Kazerne Dossin museum, with Ward Adriaens as honorary curator. In 2005 Ward Adriaens launched the Give Them a Face archival project. The portraits of all Jewish, Roma and Sinti deportees which passed through the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks, transit camp, Mechelen) in 1942-1944, were scanned to create the “Give Them a Face” portrait collection. All around 20,000 photos in the Give Them a Face portrait collection are now part of the commemoration wall – a permanent exhibition – at the Kazerne Dossin museum.

In 2009 , I first encountered the Transport XX installation in Brussels, and met Ward Adriaens’ team of the Give Them a Face project in the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance in Mechelen, Belgium (1,2).

Next , Ward Adriaens participated in our 2012 documentary Transport XX to Auschwitz (3).

Recently, May 2024, Ward Adriaens’ opening speech at the TRANSPORT XX installation in Mechelen in 2007, was posted in the ‘Miracles’ project at Miracles•Media (4).

Quote

“…Let us clearly understand that this is the fundamental basis of racism: persecuted because we have a mother. We all have parents and many amongst us have children. In order to protect them it is essential that we do not give an inch to racism. Everyone of us will come under threat should the policy makers be influenced by racism…”

We lost Ward Adriaens… way too soon…

Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media

Notes

1. Encounter • Miracles Docs #1 • Miracles•Media • 20240419 • URL https://miracles.media/2024/04/19/20240419/

2. Faces • Miracles Photo Story #1 • Miracles•Media • 20240419 • URL https://miracles.media/2024/04/19/faces-miracles-photo-story-1-20240419/

3. Ward Adriaens’ interview by the dutch reporters Piet de Blaauw & Aart Zeeman (Dutch NCRV-Netwerk broadcast, 13 April 2005, NL1) from the documentary ‘Transport XX to Auschwitz’ – a film by Karen Lynne & Richard Bloom and Michel van der Burg • In : Documentary film “Transport XX to Auschwitz” • Miracles•Media • 20130419 • URL (retrieved 20241119) https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/


Ward Adriaens • Film clip ‘Transport XX to Auschwitz’ • Miracles•Media • 20241119_2 • URL (retrieved 20241119) https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxBThndqEFjIk8Oq0-bbKzia9mF-kBe-2N

4. Speech by Ward Adriaens, Curator of The JMDR, Friday 20th April 2007. In : TRANSPORT XX installation Mechelen • Miracles•Media • 20240518 • URL https://miracles.media/2024/05/18/transport-xx-installation-mechelen-20240518/

Citation info : In Memoriam Ward Adriaens • Miracles•Media • 20241119 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2024/11/19/in-memoriam-ward-adriaens-20241119/

Polygoon Journalist Jo Levi • 20241107

The unique 1935 sound film of the Amsterdam’s Great Synagogue Choir (1,2,3) was made by the popular Polygoon journalist Jo Levi.

Wondering who Jo Levi was , I searched online, and found this picture below (20241107_1) with Jo Levi.
Jo Levi is the second man from the left in this postwar photo of Polygoon men, posted by former Polygoon editor Fredo Krooshof at Cinecentrum Hilversum (4).


Polygoon Men • Miracles•Media • 20241107_1 | Source Cinecentrum Hilversum : Left to Right : Cees v.d. Wilden – Dir. Polygoon Haarlem; Jo Levi – Red. Pol.jnl; Philip Bloemendal – Red. and comm. Pol.jnl; Man in the background – name unknown; Gé Bresser – Procurator Polygoon; RVD man – name unknown (4).

Jo Levi together with Philip Bloemendal directed the Dutch cinema news for Polygoon. Philip Bloemendal , nicknamed “The voice of the Netherlands” , was for 40 years (from 1946 to 1986) the Dutch cinema newsreel announcer, voice-over, and editor . His voice-overs are The Voice of the postwar Dutch Polygoon news reels.

“Where they are not, nothing is happening” was the motto (5) of the cameramen of the Polygoon newsreel company in Holland.

May 1931 , two dutch newsreel companies, Polygoon in the city of Haarlem, and Profilti in The Hague, were competing to have the premiere of the first Dutch cinema newsreel with sound.
Below a May 17, 1931 Polygoon interview (6) with former cyclist and sportsman W.W. van der Vet on the occasion of his 85th birthday (20241107_2).

Polygoon News Reel May 17, 1931 • Miracles•Media • 20241107_2 • TakeNode 1967b92c-e090-40b3-84fb-d713aebddcc2

The interviewer, most likely Jo Levi, looks at the camera for a moment , captured in this film still shown below ( 20241107_3).


Polygoon May 17, 1931 Interview • Miracles•Media • 20241107_3 . TakeNode 9d87a032-0112-4e8d-822e-d805c5fdc168

Notes

1. Amsterdam’s Choir of the Great Synagogue 1935 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20190830 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2019/08/30/amsterdams-choir-of-the-great-synagogue-1935/

2. 1935 Sound Film Amsterdam’s Great Synagogue Choir • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20241025 • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2024/10/25/1935-sound-film-amsterdams-great-synagogue-choir-20241025/

3. 1935 Sound Film Amsterdam’s Great Synagogue Choir • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20241025 • URL https://michelvanderburg.substack.com/p/1935-sound-film-amsterdams-great

4. Cinecentrum Hilversum. URL https://www.cinecentrum-hilversum.nl (Retrieved Oct. 25, 2024).

5. Polygoon (newsreel). Wikipedia (Retrieved 20241107). URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygoon_(newsreel)

6. Opa Vet (sportopa) voor de microfoon. Published 17 May 1931. Polygoon Hollands Nieuws (producer) / Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (Open Beelden archive)

Citation info : Polygoon Journalist Jo Levi • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20241107