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

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Resistance Chapel • 1MEMO_20260510

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)

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Sanctuary • 1MEMO_20260509

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

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Viviane • 1MEMO_20260507

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

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

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We don’t talk about Anny | Simone Korkus | 20220722

Degrelle’s maid

Cover image of the Hebrew edition על אנני לא מדברים – We don’t talk about Anny – by author Simone Korkus, published by Carmel , in a translation by Irish Bauman of the original Dutch book Het dienstmeisje van Degrelle (2017) .

Jul 22, 2022 , Israel. Book presentation this morning at Simone Korkus’ home, of the Hebrew edition על אנני לא מדברים – We don’t talk about Anny. Special event in honor of Hannah and Max Nadel, Henri and Madeleine Cornet, Elias and Hava Gnazik. Picture by Embassy of Belgium in Israel | Twitter

Anny

Anny (or Annie) is the war name – nom de guerre – of the Jewish Hannah Nadel who , during the Second World War, ends up as a maid in the Brussels house of the sister of Léon Degrelle — Belgium’s foremost Nazi collaborator — and in this way escapes the horrors of the persecution of the Jews. Simone Korkus brings this unlikely story to life, meets Hannah’s Belgian rescuers and shows how life in wartime contains many gray zones. While Simone Korkus reconstructs Hannah’s life in Brussels, she encounters family secrets and also runs into her own prejudices. For what is truth in the way we look at others and judge their behavior? And how does our memory distort traumas such as those after World War II?

Degrelle’s maid , has been published also in 2020 in a French edition La Servante de Degrelle.

Transport XX to Auschwitz | Viviane’s Story

Hannah Nadel-Gnazik is the daughter of Elias Gnazik who escaped from deportation with Transport XX to Auschwitz and helped jump Isabella Weinreb-Castegnier pregnant with Viviane who was born six months later – see e-book Viviane’s Story | Escape from Transport XX…Born 6 Months Later by Viviane Yarom-Castegnier & Michel van der Burg – With a Foreword by Simone Korkus | URL miracles•media/vivianesstory .

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Viviane & Simon ~ 75 Years After Escape Transport XX to Auschwitz

Viviane and Simon Gronowski meet for the first time in Los Angeles, April 2018 , after they both escaped 75 years ago in the night of April 19th 1943 from that fast moving death train Transport XX to Auschwitz – Simon at the time an 11-year-old boy pushed from the train by his mother Chana , and Viviane still in the womb of her 3-months pregnant mother Isabella.

Today 75 years ago Viviane (meaning ‘full of life’) was born in Brussels – 6 months after she had escaped death that night in April 1943 – thanks to the courage of her pregnant mother Isabella Weinreb , when Isabella jumped in Belgium from that cattle car of Transport XX heading for Auschwitz. She today celebrates her 75th birthday in Los Angeles.

When Simon Gronowski , from Brussels , was visiting LA in April this year – to tell his story and reunite with his childhood friend Alice Weit – Viviane fortunately was able to meet Simon , together with her girls – (grand)daughters – for the first time.

Photo – Simon with Viviane and her girls – thanks to Sébastien De Nys / Viviane
Film ① memo 20181030 ~ Viviane & Simon ~ Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg.com | 1-memo.com | miracles.media

More on Viviane’s story here in “Escape from Transport XX – to be born 6 months later – Viviane’s story” : https://michelvanderburg.com/2014/04/28/escape-from-transport-xx-to-be-born-6-months-later/

A recent finding on the man – Elias Gnazik – saving Isabella and Viviane published April 19th , 2018 , including a film on the dutch book presentation ( Simone Korkus’ dutch book “Het dienstmeisje van Degrelle” ) – here online : https://michelvanderburg.com/2018/04/19/full-of-life-escape-from-transport-xx/

More on Simon Gronowski and the documentary Transport XX to Auschwitz here in : Documentary film “Transport XX to Auschwitz” – https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/04/19/transport-xx-to-auschwitz/