Youtube Creator Top 25 Award • Transport XX • @1MEMO 20251021

#24 Most Viewed Today on YouTube • TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels

My ‘Channel 012’ ranked the #24 Most Viewed Today YouTube channel in the Netherlands on the first day after uploading the captivating video Transport XX . The next day again it reached #23 Most Viewed Today.

Channel012 ranking was #68 in Most Viewed (This Week) , a week after uploading Transport XX.

Channel012 is renamed Michel van der Burg | Miracles • Media Both usernames and links work :
@channel012
@michelvanderburg
https://www.youtube.com/channel012
https://www.youtube.com/michelvanderburg

Pioneer

Google purchased YouTube late 2006. I started late 2007, with a first upload. Between ~ 2007-2011 channel pages were equipped with view counters, bulletin boards, and were awarded badges for various rank-based achievements, such as ” “#68 – Most Viewed (This Week)”. The term “gurus” on YouTube referred to a specific category of content creators who focused on education. This category helped establish YouTube as a platform for influencers. You could change your account type to eg. Director, Comedian, Musician.

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Transport XX

TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels • URL https://youtu.be/jmWx4_cdNpY

The film was uploaded close to midnight April 19th, 2009, registered by YouTube as April 20th, 2009.
This short documentary is a video impression (2009) of the confrontation of passers-by with the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels, that presented photographic portraits of 1,200 of the 1,631 Jewish prisoners deported with the 20th train convoy to Auschwitz , the night of April 19th in 1943. Half an hour after the departure of this transport XX three young Belgians from Brussels, Youra Livschitz, Jean Franklemon and Robert Maistriau stopped the train between Boortmeerbeek and Haacht, opened one of the cars and liberated 17 prisoners. Later before the train reaches the German border over 200 other prisoners decide to attempt to escape and also jump out of the cars. This was the only documented attack on a death train during the Holocaust.

A 1minute edition of Transport XX premiered in the Paradiso theater in Amsterdam Nov. 28, 2010 – in The One Minutes – Where history starts …film festival . Here the registration :
Transport XX in Paradiso | The One Minutes Collection | 20200607 | URL https://youtu.be/KuyQzLXQo3g

A behind the scenes film of the making of this film was published last year : Flow | Miracles Moment #1 | 20240513 | URL https://youtu.be/iwQQLvGtUm0

The original post at imichel.com URL https://www.imichel.com/2009/04/transport-xx-installation-brussels.html Repost at michelvanderburg.com :
TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | imichel•com | 20090419 | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2009/04/19/transport-xx-installation-brussels-imichelcom-20090419/

#YouTube #creator #award #BTS #making #top #guru #badge #channel012 #street #art #TransportXX #views #holocaust #channel #remembrance #education #KazerneDossin #Brussels #war

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Finale • Hyer’s Work In Progress #3 • 20251018

Setting up the final, 3rd, scene. Behind the scenes photo taken by Philippe Renette while Liège artist Nico Hyer is working with spray paint making the street art mural ‘Simon’ in the garden of the S2J School Center in Liège, Belgium, Oct 2024.

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Meet Nico Hyer

HYER | Meet the Artist • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20250526 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/05/26/hyer-meet-the-artist-20250526/

Documentary Street Art Simon

Street Art Simon – CC | Miracles Docs #6 | Miracles•Media | 20251012 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/10/12/street-art-simon-miracles-docs-6-cc-⚙-🇬🇧🇫🇷-20251012/

Studio • Hyer’s Work In Progress #2 • 20251017

Behind the scenes photo taken by Philippe Renette while Liège artist Nico Hyer is working with spray paint making the street art mural ‘Simon’ in the garden of the S2J School Center in Liège, Belgium, Oct 2024.

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Meet Nico Hyer

HYER | Meet the Artist • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20250526 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/05/26/hyer-meet-the-artist-20250526/

Documentary Street Art Simon

Street Art Simon – CC | Miracles Docs #6 | Miracles•Media | 20251012 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/10/12/street-art-simon-miracles-docs-6-cc-⚙-🇬🇧🇫🇷-20251012/

Aerosol Art • Hyer’s Work In Progress #1 • 20251016

Notes

Meet Nico Hyer

HYER | Meet the Artist • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20250526 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/05/26/hyer-meet-the-artist-20250526/

Documentary Street Art Simon

Street Art Simon – CC | Miracles Docs #6 | Miracles•Media | 20251012 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/10/12/street-art-simon-miracles-docs-6-cc-⚙-🇬🇧🇫🇷-20251012/

Solo • 20251015

Still from the film Street Art Simon (1). Detail from the first scene of the street art mural created by the Liège artist HYER , depicting the story of Simon Gronowski in the Garden of Remembrance of the S2J School Center in Liège, Belgium.
This scene shows the moment that Simon jumps, solo, when pushed to freedom by his mother, Chana Kaplan, who is standing in the opening of the sliding door of the freight car of Transport XX — the 20th deportation train heading to Auschwitz on the night of the 19th April 1943 at Cuttecoven (Kuttekoven) in Belgium, some 50 km (30 miles) before the border with Germany .

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1. Street Art Simon – CC | Miracles Docs #6 | Miracles•Media | 20251012 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/10/12/street-art-simon-miracles-docs-6-cc-⚙-🇬🇧🇫🇷-20251012/
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News • Miracles Moment #5 • 20250915

Surprise

Tuesday , November 19, 2013, Simon Gronowski arrives at Station Liège-Guillemins on his way to give a series of testimonies all day at the Saint Sépulcre school in Liège, Belgium. When he gets off on the platform, and teacher Philippe Renette and I – while filming – welcome him, Simon surprises us, showing me last Saturday’s news in the German national daily newspaper Die Welt (The World) at the front page of the weekly supplement Die Literarische Welt (The Literary World).

Unlikely Friends • Feinde Wie Wir

In the article ‘Feinde wie wir’ (Enemies like us) in the German newspaper Die Welt of November 16, 2013 (1), cultural journalist Felix Stephan reports on his conversation in Berlin with Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel, which took place after their presentation there at the 13th International Literature Festival Berlin (2) of their book (3,4) ‘Enfin libérés’ / ‘Eindelijk bevrijd’ (Finally liberated) — the story of their history as children of war and the special friendship since their first meeting a year earlier, in 2012 (5).

The lead of the story reads as follows (my translation):

A story of reconciliation: Belgians Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel were children during World War II: one a Jew whose family was murdered, the other the son of a committed Nazi. Decades later, they discover how close their lives were and send an emphatic message to Europe.

French, German, with English subtitles.

Enemies like us • Miracles•Media • 20250915_1 • TakeNode d6238cf6-2521-42fe-9323-a90d521a94f6

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1. Feinde wie wir. Felix Stephan | Die Welt (Germany) Nov 16, 2013. URL https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/literatur/article121955638/Freunde-wie-Brueder-Feinde-wie-wir.html

2. Finally Free after 70 years. Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel (Belgium). internationales literaturfestival berlin (13.ilb), Sep 7, 2013.

3. Ni victime, ni coupable, enfin libérés. French edition (2013) by Simon Gronowski, Koenraad Tinel, David Van Reybrouck. Renaissance du livres ISBN 978-2507051051

4. Eindelijk bevrijd – geen schuld, geen slachtoffer. Dutch edition (2013) by Simon Gronowski, Koenraad Tinel, David Van Reybrouck. Hannibal ISBN 978-9491376405 . Reissue (2021) 978-9464366204

6. Enemies like us • Miracles•Media • 20250915_1 • TakeNode | Still (frame 340) Simon Gronowski shows Die Literarische Welt at Station Liège-Guillemins, Nov 19, 2013 , with a portrait photo of Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel by Belgian photographer Dieter Telemans – https://www.dietertelemans.com

ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI (Ed. 20190220) • 20250904

Still : ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI (Ed. 20190220) • Miracles Docs #7 • Miracles•Media

Today , I finalized the upgrade of the 2019 news video ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI (Ed. 20190220).
Final corrections with the help of Philippe Renette of the transcription of the soundtrack (French) and the English translation for captions were implemented in the video at YouTube. And the 20190220 posts were updated.

The video was ISAN registered as Miracles Doc #7 .

A new edit of that Miracles Doc #7 is being prepared as the preferred edition for use in the context of a new documentary on the street art mural created by Hyer in that Espace Simon Gronowski at the S2J School Center this year.

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ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI (Ed. 20190220) • Miracles Docs #7 | Michel van der Burg & Philippe Renette, S2J | Miracles•Media | 20190220 | ISAN 0000-0007-329C-0007-E-0000-0001-U

YouTube

French film, with English translation in CC

Select CC English / French for captions

#Espace #Simon #Gronowski #school #Liège #S2J #street #holocaust #war #education #miraclesmedia

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