Scene • 1MEMO_20260515

Reconstruction of the scene when Transport XX, the 20th Convoy, stops for approximately 15 minutes in the early morning of April 20, 1943, around 1 a.m., at Korbeek-Lo station on Belgian railway line 36 near Leuven, between the villages of Korbeek-Lo and Bierbeek, with the St. Kamillus Institute on the Krijkelberg hill.

This transport, coming from Mechelen and bound for Auschwitz, carries Jewish prisoners in 35 cattle wagons.

This train DA.801 has an estimated length of 400 meters, so that when the locomotive is positioned before the bridge—the bridge over Bierbeek Street—the last wagon stands opposite the St. Kamillus Institute.

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

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NL – Reconstructie van de scène waarin Transport XX, het 20e konvooi, in de vroege ochtend van 20 april 1943, rond 1 uur ‘s nachts, ongeveer 15 minuten stopt op station Korbeek-Lo aan de Belgische spoorlijn 36 vlakbij Leuven, tussen de dorpen Korbeek-Lo en Bierbeek, met het St. Kamillus-instituut op de Krijkelberg.
Dit transport komende van Mechelen , met bestemming Auschwitz , vervoert Joodse gevangenen in 35 veewagons.
Deze trein DA.801 heeft een geschatte lengte van 400 meter , zodat wanneer de locomotief zich voor de brug bevindt , de brug over de Bierbeekstraat, de laatste wagon tegenover het St Kamillus instituut staat.

Station Corbeek-Loo • 1MEMO_20260504 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Route Transport XX, Korbeek-Lo, Belgium. TakeNode 50f42693-3f86-4573-ab7a-dc583d465e14

The location of ‘Station Corbeek-Loo’ was added as a‘historic landmark’ on Google Maps by me today – URL https://maps.app.goo.gl/e2FoDRFq1pnodLMN6

L36 • 1MEMO_20260511

L36 • 1MEMO_20260511 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Along Belgian railway line 36, Viviane is looking for the site her mother Isabella Weinreb-Castegnier escaped the 20th Convoy (Transport XX) 80 years earlier, and saved both their lives, en route together with photographer Jo Struyven , author Nathalie Strubbe, and documentary filmmaker Michel van der Burg, near St Kamillus on the Krijkelberg ridge, on the border of Korbeek-Lo (Bierbeek) Belgium, April 18th, 2023. TakeNode e92d1b1e-d513-4b12-afcf-364740530cfa

#L36 #Kamillus #railway #escape #Viviane #Isabella #Weinreb #Castegnier #Korbeek #Leuven #Kamillus #Krijkelberg #train #Belgium #deportation #TransportXX #holocaust #resistance #war #MiraclesMedia

Romain Baplu & Youra Livchitz • News From Belgium | 20230407

On the night of April 19 to 20 around 1 a.m., the Belgian partisans Romain Baplu, Gustav (Albert) Poncelet, Pieter Scheepers and Maurice Swinnen – active in the Leuven Partisans group – sabotaged the 20th convoy (Transport XX) just outside Leuven by placing a barricade on the railway track at Korbeek-Lo.

This delayed the 20th convoy of 1,631 Jews in cattle wagons, who were being deported from the Dossin transit camp in Mechelen to Auschwitz. Many deportees jumped from this death train further along between Korbeek-Lo and Tienen.
This was the second time that night that the transport had been sabotaged from the outside.

Earlier that night, before Leuven, at Haacht (close to Boortmeerbeek), the three young Brussels heroes Youra Livchitz (Dr. Georges Livchitz), Robert Maistriau, and Jean Franklemon had carried out an attack on Transport XX. They freed 17 people by opening one of the cattle wagons.

Romain Baplu from Louvain (Leuven, Belgium) and Youra Livschitz (Dr. Georges 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.

Film License info : Romain Baplu & Youra Livchitz • News From Belgium | 20230407 | Miracles•Media | TakeNode bb8fc1fd-444f-4bba-aecb-1d439b5bdb3e

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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)

20260505 Last update text

20260509 text update , changed spelling of names , including Livschitz to Livchitz

QUATRE-MAINS Filmmaker Lander Haverals

QUATRE-MAINS Filmmaker Lander Haverals
Report (20210913) Miracles•Media
Q&A with Lander Haverals at the Belgian pre-premiere of ‘QUATRE-MAINS’ Sep 12, 2021 in Studio SILO (De chinezen) in Leuven, Belgium.

Child of victims and child of perpetrators, yet they became friends for life. Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel lost almost everything in World War II, but found each other.

Documentary by Lander Haverals and Simon Demeulemeester, and producer Neelke Nijs | De chinezen. @landerhaverals

TAGS #QUATREMAINS #LanderHaverals #SimonDemeulemeester #SimonGronowski #KoenraadTinel #documentary #premiere #QA #filmmaker #Dechinezen #Leuven #Belgium #SILO #holocaust #1Memo #michelvanderburg #MiraclesMedia

NL Transcript (added Sep 14th)

Welkom.
We gaan de film QUATRE-MAINS vertonen.
Dat is een film die ik samen gemaakt heb met co-regisseur Simon Demeulemeester.
Simon is journalist voor de Knack [ Belgian (Flemish) weekly news magazine ].
Die heeft mij aangesproken, met een toch wel heel merkwaardig verhaal, vond ik zelf.
Het verhaal van Koenraad Tinel en Simon Gronowski.
Die allebei jonge gastjes waren, toen in Wereldoorlog II…
en van een heel andere afkomst, de oorlog hebben meegemaakt.
En daar vandaag de dag over getuigen, over de toch wel bijzondere vriendschap.
… De film zoveel mogelijk uit te puren,
omdat het verhaal daar om vroeg.
Om het eigenlijk zo simpel, eenvoudig, en puur mogelijk te vertellen.
Oordeel vooral zelf, of dat het gelukt is.
Dan gaan we nu de film kijken.
QUATRE – MAINS
En ze gaan met hun verhaal ook veel rond hè…
naar lezingen, naar scholen…
Koenraad als kunstenaar.
Welnu , er komt nog een boek nu , in het najaar.
Het is eigenlijk daardoor dat we deze film gemaakt hebben. Dat komt komt in het najaar 2022.
[ Publiek ] Door wie is dat dan geschreven?
Door Simon Demeulemeester, die ook met de film geholpen heeft.
[ Publiek ] Ah ! Die van Knack, ja.
Die van Knack, ja.
In Amerika wordt de film al op festivals getoond.
[ Publiek ] Je hebt al een prijs hè!
In Frankrijk is het beste Europese film geworden.
[ Best European Independent Film 2021 op het ÉCU festival ]
Maar in Belgie dus nog niet [vertoond].
Hij wordt gedistribueerd door Dalton Distribution…
en de bedoeling is dat we hem uitbrengen samen met het boek.

QUATRE-MAINS Filmmaker Lander Haverals
Reportage (20210913) Miracles•Media
Q&A met Lander Haverals op de Belgische pre-premiere van ‘QUATRE-MAINS’ op 12 Sep 2021 in Studio SILO (De chinezen) in Leuven, Belgium..

EN CC Translation (added Sep 14th)

Welcome.
We are going to show the film QUATRE-MAINS.
That is a film I made together with co-director Simon Demeulemeester.
Simon is a journalist for the Knack [ Belgian (Flemish) weekly news magazine ].
He came to me with a very remarkable story, I thought.
The story of Koenraad Tinel and Simon Gronowski.
Both were young lads, back in World War II…
and of very different origins, experienced the war.
And testify about that today, about the special friendship.
… To purify the film as much as possible,
because the story called for it.
To actually tell it as simple, and pure as possible.
Decide for yourself whether it worked or not.
Now let’s watch the movie.
QUATRE – MAINS
And they go around with their story a lot too…
to lectures, to schools…
Koenraad as an artist.
Well, there’s also a book coming, in the fall.
That’s actually why we made this film.
That will come in the fall of 2022.
[ Audience ] Who wrote that then?
By Simon Demeulemeester, who also helped with the film.
[ Audience ] Ah ! That [journalist] from Knack, yes.
From Knack, yes.
[ Belgian (Flemish) weekly news magazine ]
The film is already being shown at festivals in America.
[ Audience ] You already got a prize, don’t you!
In France it has become the best European film.
[ Best European Independent Film 2021 at the ÉCU festival ]
But not yet [screened] in Belgium.
It is distributed by Dalton Distribution…
and the intention is that we release it together with the book.

QUATRE-MAINS Filmmaker Lander Haverals
Report (20210913) Miracles•Media
Q&A with Lander Haverals at the Belgian pre-premiere of ‘QUATRE-MAINS’.