Midnight, May 20, 2011 in Kuttekoven, Belgium. Behind the scenes. Making of documentary film “Transport XX to Auschwitz” . Reconstruction of the scene where Simon Gronowski escapes from the 20th Convoy in the early morning (around 2-3 a.m.) of April 20, 1943 . https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/
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.
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
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
Resistance Chapel • 1MEMO_20260510 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Resistance Chapel, at Roosbeek railway crossing, while Viviane is looking for the site her mother escaped the 20th convoy and saved both their lives, together with photographer Jo Struyven , author Nathalie Strubbe, and documentary filmmaker Michel van der Burg, in Roosbeek (Boutersem) Belgium, April 18th, 2023. TakeNode 1708dc1d-0fcc-4293-8a69-a04ea2a5cf39
Notes
Weerstandskapel Roosbeek
PDF ‘Weerstandskapel_Roosbeek’ via link reads ‘donderdag 22 april 1943’ , this should be ‘dinsdag 20 april 1943’ . URL https://archeoregio.be/Weerstandskapel/ . (retrieved May 10, 2026)
Sanctuary • 1MEMO_20260509 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Escape from the 20th Convoy, Sint Kamillus, Krijkelberg … Korbeek-Lo , Bierbeek, Belgium, April 18th, 2023 TakeNode c9707b6d-1082-4ae6-99e4-a74d49765d7c
Viviane • 1MEMO_20260507 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Photographer Jo Struyven makes a portrait of Viviane visiting the site she escaped from the 20th Convoy in the womb of her pregnant mother Isabella Weinreb-Castegnier who jumped from this death train, with the help of Elias Gnazik, near Bierbeek, Belgium, April 18th, 2023 TakeNode af3bd9fb-08ed-4ef4-b9ac-97641b928785
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Sint Kamillus • 1MEMO_20260506 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Escape from the 20th Convoy, Sint Kamillus, Krijkelberg … Korbeek-Lo (Bierbeek), Belgium, April 18th, 2023 TakeNode 808dc4ae-e33f-4b9d-8877-9be86a280194
