Time Lapse Mechelen
Credits: Erik Franckx, Leon Nolis, Julie Hoffmann, Stijn Swinnen. (Project for Lenske Boortmeerbeek)
Visit of President Woodrow Wilson to Belgium, June 18, 1919
Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 9/18/1947-2/28/1964 (Most Recent)
Series: Historical Films, ca. 1914 - ca. 1936
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985
Production Date: 1936
Scope & Content: Reel 1, King Albert and Queen Elizabeth greet the Wilsons at Andenkerque. They inspect rubble in Nieuport, landmarks in Ypres (with Amb. Whitlock), and shattered breakwaters of the Zeebrugge Canal; eat a picnic lunch; and greet villagers in Thourout and Blankenberghe. Reel 2, the party inspects German-stripped factories in Charleroi; meets Herbert Hoover, Bernard Baruch, Norman Davis, and Vance McCormick in Brussels; and drives through Malines. Wilson is given a degree at the Univ. of Louvain.
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AP interview with survivors ahead of opening of Jewish Museum of Deportation
Mechelen
1. Billboards displaying 1,200 passport photos of victims who were aboard train transport wagons, Transport XX (Twentieth Convoy) from Mechelen to Auschwitz
2. Simon Gronowski, who successfully escaped Transport XX as an 11-year old, pointing at photo of his mother, Chana Gronowski
3. Close of photo of Simon Gronowski's mother, Chana Gronowski
4. Billboards with victims' passport photos
5. SOUNDBITE: (French) Simon Gronowski, Youngest person to escape Transport XX:
Yes, I am very moved to see my mother, one among 1,200 people that are here displayed. I have never seen this photo. She is very young in this photo. I find her very beautiful.
6. Pan of billboards displaying victims' photos
Boortmeerbeerk
7. Pan from freight train to memorial commemorating resistance fighters Transport XX liberation act
8. Tilt down from top of memorial to the bottom
9. SOUNDBITE: (French) Simon Gronowski, Youngest person to escape Transport XX:
On April 19, my mother and I were put in a train transport wagon. There was nowhere to sit with some fifty people on the floor and just some hay on the ground. I didn't understand what was happening. I was still in my own boys scouts universe. I didn't know then that I was condemned to die and being taken to the place of my execution.
10. Railway tracks where Transport XX passed
11. SOUNDBITE: (French) Simon Gronowski, Youngest person to escape Transport XX:
I heard from the wagon where I was, that the train had stopped and the German guards were shooting and shouting. I found out later that three youngsters who here in Boortmeerbeek made the train stop, opened one wagon and saved 17 people.
12. ++STILL++ photograph of Simon Gronowski and his parents in Brussels, 1942
13. SOUNDBITE: (French) Simon Gronowski, Youngest person to escape Transport XX:
When I was on the train stepladder my mother held me tight. In the beginning I didn't dare to jump because the train was going too fast. The last words I heard from my mother in Yiddish were: 'Der tsug geyt tsu schnellm' which means 'The train goes too fast.' Then it slowed down and I ran into the woods.
14. Memorial commemorating resistance fighters Transport XX act
15. SOUNDBITE: (French) Simon Gronowski, Youngest to escape Transport XX:
What they did here was an extraordinary act because of all the convoys, which crossed Europe between 1940 and 1945, there were hundreds of convoys of Jews, and only one convoy was stopped, my convoy. It is a unique fact, extraordinary.
Brussels
16. Simon Gronowski's family photos of his parents and sister
17. Simon Gronowski seated next to Robert Maistriau, resistance fighter who forced Transport XX to stop and let 17 people out
18. Close of photographer
19. SOUNDBITE: (French) Robert Maistriau, Transport XX resistance fighter:
I opened the door of the train wagon and I shouted in bad German that they had to leave, this was the moment to rescue themselves. I noticed that I did not have a lot of success. People were afraid.
20. Simon Gronowski talking to Robert Maistriau
21. SOUNDBITE: (French) Simon Gronowski, Youngest person to escape Transport XX:
It is because of him that I am now a father and grandfather.
(Robert Maistriau: I remember that you invited me to dinner one evening and I never returned the invite. That was not very polite of me.)
Mechelen
22. Pan across billboards
STORYLINE
The Belgium-based Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance opens a new project on Friday to commemorate the only documented case where resistance fighters stopped a train and freed hundreds of Jews being transported to a concentration camp during the second World War.
Over two hundred people managed to escape that night, although some were recaptured later.
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Transport XX to Auschwitz - trailer
During the Shoah, the Nazis, in their quest for the final solution of the Jewish question, utilized thousands of trains from Germany and the occupied countries to transport 3,000,000 Jews to the concentration and death camps.
This is the little known, true story of a most remarkable and heroic rescue attempt which occurred on April 19, 1943, the first night of Passover, at the same time that the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began, some 720 miles away.
On that night, Transport XX departed Mechelen, Belgium at 10 p.m. with 1631 Jewish men, women and children for AuschwitzII-Birkenau.
Half an hour later, it was stopped by three young Belgians armed with only 1 pistol, pliers and a hurricane lamp.
This was the only documented attack on a death train during the Shoah.
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