Sign • 1MEMO_20260520
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 .

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Genocide • 20260519
On May 19, 1944, at the Westerbork transit camp, a glimpse of Sinti girl Settela Steinbach wearing a headscarf appears between the sliding doors of a cattle car awaiting deportation to Auschwitz.
In May 1945, her father, Moeselman Steinbach, wrote to “Repatriation” in the Netherlands: “...I very politely request you to inform me whether my wife and 10 children have arrived, or only children (Gypsy children) from the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.” Full post at https://settela.com/2026/05/19/genocide-20260519/

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Sinti Caravan Site • 20260518 •

In 1935 the nomadic Sinti families Steinbach — musicians — were photographed by Dutch photographer Jan de Jong at their caravan pitch on the heath around the Heksenberg hill in Brunssum, Limburg, Netherlands (1).

The boy with the violin is Willy Steinbach, an older brother of Settela Steinbach. The other 3 prints from the glass negatives that Jan de Jong made at the Heksenberg site in 1935 also show the Steinbach family, among others, with toddler Settela in the arms of her older sister Elisabeth Steinbach.

Settela Steinbach became known as the girl with the headscarf, featured a few seconds in the Westerbork film by Werner Rudolf Breslauer showing the deportation of the Steinbachs' and other nomad families — all together ca 245 Sinti and Roma, and ca 450 Jews — on May 19th 1944 from the dutch transit camp Westerbork to Auschwitz (1,2).

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1 - Willy & Settela | Born Nomad | 20210519 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 (accessed 2026 May 18) URL: https://settela.com/2021/05/19/willy-settela-born-nomad/

2 - Settela Steinbach in Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 (accessed 2026 May 18) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiLNDziwEtc&t=1012s

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Source : Sinti trailer camp 1935 by Jan de Jong (photographer De Spaarnestad) • Wikimedia Commons, Collection Limburgs Museum

From : Sinti Caravan Site • 20260518 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | CC BY 4.0 | URL https://settela.com/2026/05/18

Scene • 1MEMO_20260515 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • TakeNode 805a66ac-b428-4856-b551-aa2c89898fbb • Map data ©2026 Google, Airbus

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”
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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 • 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 • 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 • 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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Liberation • 1MEMO_20260508 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Cheering crowds greet British troops entering Brussels, 4 September 1944 . TakeNode 43cdc95e-4db6-44db-bd5b-fec92f198f86

youtube https://youtu.be/11m8dYt5AoA&h

Celebrating crowds, while the Allied troops drive the Germans out of the city, Sunday 3 September 1944 in Brussels, Belgium .


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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

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