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The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne

  • 10 Feb 2015
  • 6:00 PM
  • Hard Rock Café, 1000 Brussels
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Private Screening of the Major Film
The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne


Join us on Tuesday, February 10, for a private pre-screening of Martin King’s new film The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne, which will be released to the general public in August. This prestigious event will be held at 6 pm at the Hard Rock Café and will be followed by an optional three-course dinner. Martin King, author, historian and producer of the film, will give a brief introduction before the screening.
   
The film tells the real story of Augusta Chiwy, a young black woman born in the Congo who left her home in Louvain, Belgium on a journey that would affect the rest of her life. She was going home for Christmas to visit her family in Bastogne, a city that within a week would become the center of the largest land battle in U S Army history: the Battle of the Bulge. Bastogne was destined to become a place of terror and destruction; where no one was safe and where anyone could be killed at any time. In mid-January the war moved on to Germany. Augusta returned home, married and raised a family. She never talked about the horror she had experienced. Augusta disappeared into history until a comment made to historian and author Martin King in 2008 sparked a quest to find this heroic woman who saved so many American lives. After months of searching he found her living alone in Brussels. Conversation after conversation brought to light events that had been hidden for 65 years. King began a campaign to gain her the international recognition that she so deserved. In 2011, Augusta was knighted by the King of Belgium, and received the United States Army “Humanitarian Civilian Award” for her extraordinary bravery in World War Two.
 
The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne, a documentary film about Augusta Chiwy, was screened on March 21, 2014 in Bastogne, Belgium. This isn’t a film for military audiences alone. It is the story of a woman who demonstrated unselfish service and great heroism. It is a story within a story, as the film answers the question “was she a myth?” It is a story of the relationship between two very different people, Jack Prior a white, 10th Armored Division medic and Augusta Chiwy, a black Belgian nurse who volunteered for what meant certain death if she was captured by the advancing German Army.
 
It is a story that completes one that began in the Band of Brothers HBO Series, where two nurses, Renée Lemaire, and “Anna from the Congo” are depicted treating patients in the Bastogne aid station. Renée was killed in a bomb blast on Christmas Eve and became famous as “the Angel of Bastogne”. Anna was lost to history until Martin King found Augusta Chiwy living in Brussels sixty-five years later. Augusta has become the “Forgotten Angel of Bastogne”.
 
After the screening, the Hard Rock is proposing an optional three-course dinner:

Jumbo Combo
A delectable array of their most popular starters
that is big enough to share:
spinach artichoke dip, hickory-smoked chicken wings,
onion rings, potato skins and Tupelo chicken tenders,
all served with three different sauces
for mixing and matching


Choice of Main Courses
Grilled salmon topped with Maitre d’Hôtel butter and served with mashed potatoes and fresh vegetables
or
Hard Rock’s legendary burger topped with
seasoned bacon, two slices of Cheddar cheese,
a crisp fried onion ring, lettuce, tomato, and pickles


Dessert
Hard Rock Café Brownie

Please note that due to limited seating for the screening, this event is limited to 40 people.
  
Event Details:
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: The Hard Rock Café, Grand-Place 12a, 1000 Brussels
Price for Only the Screening: €5 for members, €10 for non-members.
Price for the Screening and Dinner: €30 for members and €40 for non-members. Please indicate your choice of main course when registering.
Public Transportation: Metro: Gare Centrale/Centraal Station; buses 29, 38, 65, 66 and 71: Gare Centrale/Centraal Station; trams 3 and 4 (Bourse/Beurs).
Sign up: Reservations are due by noon on Friday, February 6, online at www.americanclubbrussels.org, by email (info@americanclubbrussels.org), or by telephone to the ACB Office Manager (0476/996.870). Payment to ACB at BE55427919588144 (KREDBEBB) will confirm your reservation. Be sure to mention “Angel” in the communications section of the virement.
Cancellations are possible until noon on Friday, February 6. Participants cancelling after this time, as well as no-shows, are charged the full cost of the event.

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