Boortmeerbeek, Belgium. May 4, 2007. Images of canvases taken two days before the May 6, 2007 commemoration of Transport XX, with the 2007 theme: ‘Give them a face’ (in collaboration with Kazerne Dossin) and the inauguration of the Boortmeerbeek canvases with the photo selection of the escapees of Transport XX on Belgian territory.

Parallel to the Mechelen-Leuven railway line, four large canvases of three meters high and five meters wide have been placed ‘wagon-like’ next to each other. It shows the portraits of 236 deported Jews who managed to escape from the XXth transport on Belgian territory.

The first of the four large canvases also features the three young men who stopped the train, Youra (Georges) Livschitz, Jean Franklemon and Robert Maistriau. Portraits mostly from the State Archives, Brussels, digitized by Kazerne Dossin.

Citation info : Canvases Transport XX – Boortmeerbeek | Collection Marc Michiels | Miracles•Media | 20240418