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"@AuschwitzMuseum 2/3 He painted signboards at the camp including warning signs & after he painted a portrait of an SS officer he began to receive orders from other German officers for portraits & landscapes. He privately made portraits of more than [----] of his fellow prisoners. On Oct [--] 1944"
X Link 2021-04-02T17:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n Although the Nazis referred to Terezn (Theresienstadt) as a model ghetto nearly one of every four people confined in the camp died there. Among the prisoners were some of the best doctors from Czechoslovakia Germany Austria and Holland. But given the lack of medicines"
X Link 2023-03-17T18:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum She was Czeslawa's mother 💔"
X Link 2023-04-01T11:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n Jean Pierre Reich was born on May [--] [----] in Arcueil (Seine / Val-de-Marne) with his parents Jean-Pierre Reich [--] varnisher and Madeleine Oswald [--] papermaker. On October [--] [----] the services of the first general intelligence section of the police headquarters opened"
X Link 2023-05-01T09:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On May [--] [----] the Cap Arcona was bombed by the RAF in the Lbeck Bay 1/n In early May [----] the SS loaded some 9000-10000 prisonersmost of them evacuated from Neuengamme and its subcampsonto three ships anchored in the Baltic Sea off the coast of"
X Link 2023-05-03T10:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"7/7 Victim's bodies washed ashore for over [--] years. They were buried in mass graves. L: The Cap Arcona Memorial in Neustadt R: The Cap Arcona ship's bell preserved in Hamburg"
X Link 2023-05-03T10:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2/n to say their babies would be taken from them as soon as they were born to be euthanized. But two of those other babies escaped that horror and survived." Eva managed to track them down and the three "babies of the Holocaust" met in Mauthausen in May 2010"
X Link 2023-05-05T23:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3/3 at a Holocaust remembrance event. Together they also met the surviving members of the 11th Armoured Division - the U.S. Army unit which had liberated the concentration camp in [----] saving the lives of Eva Anka Hannah Mark and countless others"
X Link 2023-05-05T23:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"3/n A production company was hired from Prague to produce the film along with a Czech photographer and cameraman Ivan Fric. The film was shot between August and September of [----] but was not completed until early [----]. [--] minutes of this film survived. https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/theresienstadt-a-documentary-film-1944 https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/theresienstadt-a-documentary-film-1944"
X Link 2023-05-11T10:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"4/n Kurt Gerron a Jew fled Nazi Germany for the Netherlands was captured when the Nazis rolled in and was forced to make the propaganda film at Theresientstadt perished at Auschwitz. He had featured in the [----] film "Der Blaue Engel" starring Marlene Dietrich"
X Link 2023-05-11T10:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n During World War II the Nazis deported more than [------] Jews Sinti and Roma from the Netherlands to camps in Poland Germany and the Czech Republic. Two transports departed from camp Vught the other transports from camp Westerbork"
X Link 2023-05-28T20:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 2/3 He painted signboards at the camp including warning signs & after he painted a portrait of an SS officer he began to receive orders from other German officers for portraits & landscapes. He privately made portraits of more than [----] of his fellow prisoners. On Oct [--] 1944"
X Link 2023-06-07T19:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 3/3 Siwek was moved to Sachsenhausen where the Polish elite were held. Here he continued art work after his work hours at an aircraft factory. After the war he was the director of Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum & then worked as an illustrator for books on plants & animals"
X Link 2023-06-07T19:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/3 Natzweiler-Struthof was a German-run concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains in France south-west of Strasbourg. Natzweiler-Struthof was the only Nazi concentration camp established in todays France. The camp operated between May [--] [----] & the beginning of"
X Link 2023-06-09T14:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/2 Henryk Mandelbaum (born December [--] [----] in Olkusz Poland died June [--] [----] in Bytom) was a survivor of the Holocaust. He was one of the prisoners in the Sonderkommando KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who had to"
X Link 2023-06-17T16:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@auschwitzxhibit 1/2 During the British bombing of the floating concentration camps Cap Arcona and Thielbek on [--] May [----] more than [----] people died. That disaster in the Bay of Lbeck took place during the very last phase of the Second World War in Europe. The extremely violent death struggle"
X Link 2023-06-18T15:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum L: The Cap Arcona Memorial in Neustadt R: The Cap Arcona ship's bell preserved in Hamburg"
X Link 2023-06-21T21:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"6/n Partisan groups in the forest and surrounding villages suffered major casualties. The Bielski partisans however split into groups and assembled back in their former base in the Jasinowo forest. The Bielski partisans eventually became affiliated with Soviet organisations"
X Link 2023-06-28T13:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 3/n We saw eyes widened by horror children's heads hideously mutilated with the ulcerated faces of a gnawing wound . The experimental protocol for treatment of noma among Gypsy children is one of the most horrific crimes that Dr. Josef Mengele has committed"
X Link 2023-06-30T03:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Angelux1111 Except the victim's mother called for a revolt in the media while the policeman was already in custody. Maybe she should pay for the Millions in damage"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Angelux1111 I live next door so the whole event was on the news. Still is. It's her call though that made things run out of hand in dramatic way. A perfect opportunity for the career rioters who use any occasion to smash things up. Bienvenue"
X Link 2023-06-29T23:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Angelux1111 Thanks. I haven't seen some of that footage yet"
X Link 2023-06-29T23:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Anne Frank's father Otto fought at the Somme. During the First World War [-----] Jewish men died for a Fatherland that would later send them to the gas chambers. Photo:1917: Otto Frank (center) with three of his comrades. He rose to the rank of reserve lieutenant"
X Link 2023-07-02T16:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"German camp brothels in World War II In World War II Nazi Germany established brothels in the concentration camps (Lagerbordelle) to create an incentive for prisoners to collaborate although these institutions were used mostly by Kapos"
X Link 2023-07-09T17:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum Remember her and all victims of genocide 💔"
X Link 2023-07-09T18:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n the camp which was organized here accommodated the most numerous group of POWs the Soviets who suffered the harshest treatment from the Germans. To many of them the place became one of their extermination. Of about [---] thousand Soviet POWs who stayed in the camp during"
X Link 2023-07-09T21:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 3/n World War [--] about [-----] died in Lamsdorf. The area to be developed for the needs of the camp was prepared in Spring [----] yet construction works had not started. Soldiers of the Red Army who were being brought here starting from July that year were kept under the open sky"
X Link 2023-07-09T21:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 4/n It was not until the fall that bunkhouses were begun to be erected. However since it had not been possible to finish the construction works before the onset of winter the POWs were forced to take shelter from cold in makeshift pits they dug in the ground themselves"
X Link 2023-07-09T21:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 5/n The basic part of the construction works in the camp was completed the following year in [----]. Before I forget: Cause of death: 'Phlegmone bei Phlegmone'. Phlegmon is a medical term describing an inflammation of soft tissue that spreads under the skin or inside the body"
X Link 2023-07-09T21:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1/n #OTD [--] July [----] an anti-Jewish pogrom took place in Jedwabne. It occurred a dozen or so days after the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from the town which had then been seized by Germans. Around 10am Polish inhabitants of Jedwabne and nearby villages"
X Link 2023-07-10T22:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 10/n with [--] S-detainees in a dark wagon lit by a small kerosene lamp. The train stopped several times so that fresh water could be fetched and once some bread was handed out to the passengers. Lists from Westerbork also mention green peas groats and carrots but since no"
X Link 2023-07-10T11:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 11/n food was ever cooked on the train the likelihood is that these items were distributed to Germans. According to Auschwitz chronicler Danuta Czech the train arrived on February [--]. [---] men and [--] women passed the selection and were admitted to the camp"
X Link 2023-07-10T11:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum Convoy [--] from Drancy France to Auschwitz-Birkenau Poland on February [--] [----] 1/n On January [--] [----] Knochen informed Eichmann that [----] Jews were interned in the Drancy camp and asked him if it would be possible to organize one or two convoys to Auschwitz. In addition"
X Link 2023-07-10T15:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n Knochen asks if French Jews can be deported. On January [--] Eichmann's deputy Rolf Gnther declares that the Reich Ministry of Transport provided freight cars for the deportation of [----] to [----] Jews from the Bourget-Drancy station. As the French and German governments"
X Link 2023-07-10T15:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Black Sabbath" [--] July [----] Salonika Greece 1/n On the eve of World War II approximately [-----] Jews lived in Greece. Some [-----] of them lived in Thessaloniki. The Jews of Thessaloniki were prominent in the fields of industry banking and tourism"
X Link 2023-07-11T19:07Z [----] followers, 40.2K engagements
"6/n or a ransom. Some of the money was collected in Thessaloniki and Athens and the rest was raised by the sale of the 500-year-old Jewish cemetery to the Municipality. The cemetery was destroyed and the tombstones were used as building materials. Some [----] Jewish men"
X Link 2023-07-11T10:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"7/n who were arrested on Black Saturday were sent to forced labor for the German Army. By October [----] [---] of them had perished due to the harsh conditions. In February [----] the Jews of Thessaloniki were given less than a month to move into a ghetto established in the"
X Link 2023-07-11T10:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Thessaloniki [--] April [----] The Last Letter from Elie Sides 1/n "Hug our beloved children for us and tell them about us so that they don't forget us." These words were written by Elie Sides in his last letter from the ghetto in the Baron Hirsch neighborhood in Thessaloniki"
X Link 2023-07-11T14:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n On [--] July [----] the first train with Jews departed from Westerbork for Auschwitz. The following days [--] trains immediately take a total of [----] Jews on board less than half of which have just arrived from Amsterdam more than half supplemented by Jews who have been in"
X Link 2023-07-11T19:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n Westerbork for some time. From mid-July that camp that patch of land on the moor is the portal of death. Westerbork becomes a city where life revolves around the weekly deportation train. 'That poisonous snake' as Westerbork chronicler Philip Mechanicus calls it in his"
X Link 2023-07-11T19:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 3/n diary he writes until he has to go himself. During the whole of July [----] seven more transports departed from Amsterdam to Westerbork. And nearly [----] Jews were still being deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz. The Netherlands will comply with the requirements of Berlin"
X Link 2023-07-11T19:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 4/n where Eichmann sets the rules. In the Netherlands deportation is relatively smooth. Because the abode and whereabouts of all Jews were known; because the Amsterdam police cooperated intensively for some time"
X Link 2023-07-11T19:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 5/5 Other camps where Dutch Jews are detained are the Sobibor extermination camp and the Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt concentration camps"
X Link 2023-07-11T19:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Erich Kulka (18 February [----] [--] July 1995) was a Czech-Israeli writer historian and journalist who survived the Holocaust 1/n After World War II he made it his life's mission to research the Holocaust and publicize facts about it. In [----] he donated photographs to the"
X Link 2023-07-12T17:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Generalplan Ost" 1/n Generalplan Ost means masterplan of the east and was the Nazi plan for the resettlement of Eastern Europe with German citizens after their victory in World War II which they presumed was imminent in [----] when they developed the plan"
X Link 2023-07-12T17:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/n The territories they were prepared to take over and occupy were Poland Lithuania Latvia Estonia Belarus and parts of Russia and Ukraine. The Nazis believed people from these territories were racially inferior and required extermination to make room for the Aryan Germans"
X Link 2023-07-12T17:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"5/n of 80-85 percent of Polands population and [--] percent of the Czech Republics population as well as the later deportation of [--] percent of Lithuanias population [--] percent of Belarus population [--] percent of western Ukraines population and [--] percent"
X Link 2023-07-12T23:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1941 Satanov Ukraine Letter from Edik to his father and mother Dear Mom and Dad I kiss you and hold you very tightly in my arms. Yours Edik 1/n Edik had just started learning to write when he wrote these words to his parents Klara and Lazer"
X Link 2023-07-17T17:44Z [----] followers, 20.9K engagements
"4/n The Nazis frequently described disabled people as useless eaters empty human shells and life unworthy of life. They chose these labels to evoke images of people who were incapable of doing anything and so needed to be kept in institutions for their entire lives"
X Link 2023-07-14T12:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"5/n wasting the tax dollars of non-disabled people. One of the first legislative changes that affected all disabled people as it did all Jews was their exclusion from the new marriage loans program which lent money to each newly married couple and forgave a quarter of the"
X Link 2023-07-14T12:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The heroines of Ravensbrck How four fearless young women who survived a Nazi death camp exposed the horrific experiments they were subjected to in coded letters using urine as invisible ink 1/n However the sordid details of the experiments were"
X Link 2023-07-15T20:50Z [----] followers, 30.7K engagements
"The July 16th [----] of "Petit Louis" 1/n Lazare Pytkowicz was born on February [--]. When he was made a Companion of the Liberation on November [--] [----] he had only been able to celebrate four birthdays since [----] the year of his birth"
X Link 2023-07-17T07:09Z [----] followers, 15.2K engagements
"Acts of Courage Thophile Larue 1/n Many wartime French authorities and police played an active role in the deportations but one Paris policeman Thophile Larue took a stand. He warned his Jewish neighbours the Lictensztajns of the upcoming Vl dHiv roundup"
X Link 2023-07-19T01:29Z [----] followers, 43K engagements
"1/n In Birkenau prisoner Zalmen Gradowski who worked at the Sonderkommando in the crematoria wrote in his diaries extensively about the last moments of what he referred to as The Czech Transport. The fact is that this is the first instance of Jews being deported where"
X Link 2023-07-18T02:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"9/n could pay school tuition. Father Jacques replied that he expected nothing in return neither then nor in the future. On the contrary he would be pleased to see her brother continue his studies after the war. Since the boy had no parents Bunel would gladly take their place"
X Link 2023-07-19T01:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"10/10 Film director Louis Malle was also a student at the school. His film Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye Children) is based on his memories of the tragedy that befell Bunel and his three Jewish protgs. In [----] Lucien Bunel was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations"
X Link 2023-07-19T01:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#OTD July [--] [----] Yad Vashem recognized Oskar Schindler as "Righteous Among the Nations". As a member of the NSDAP and war profiteer this award was not an easy undertaking. Read more about the background"
X Link 2023-07-19T01:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The children's home at Chteau de Chabannes "The children in our care laughed during the day and cried at night" Rachel Plodmacher-Levine 1/n Between November [----] and January [----] the children's home in Chabannes in central France provided a safe haven for [---] children"
X Link 2023-07-19T17:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dr. Ludwik Fleck: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab 1/n "We made a typhus vaccine that did not work. For controls we sent a sample that did work. The illiterates didnt realize what was going on.""
X Link 2023-07-19T18:42Z [----] followers, 21.7K engagements
"2/n Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald Jewish microbiologist Ludwik Fleck conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front. The good vaccine was administered to vulnerable people in the camp"
X Link 2023-07-19T20:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Franceska Mann and the myth of The Dancer of Auschwitz 1/n On October [--] [----] [--] year old ballerina Franceska Mann transformed. Overnight she became the stuff of legend. Not through her deft pointe work or an ovation worthy performance but because of her death"
X Link 2023-07-29T22:31Z [----] followers, 16.9K engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 5/n In a letter from General Commisioner and HSSPF Hans-Albin Rauter to Himmler dated September [--] Rauter presented the plans for a nationwide operation. He planned to transfer the prisoners in the labour camps to Westerbork and to arrest their families and deport them to"
X Link 2023-07-27T15:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 6/n Westerbork as well. From there they would be deported to Auschwitz. In this way he calculated that [-----] Jews half of the Dutch Jewish population would be deported before Christmas. As planned all the labour camps in the Netherlands were emptied on October [--] and 2"
X Link 2023-07-27T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 10/10 provisions for [--] days such as bread butter jam vegetables and coffee substitute were purchased for [----] persons. From testimonies it is known that the deportees received only bread. There are [--] known survivors from this transport all men who left the train in Cosel"
X Link 2023-07-27T15:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"4/n as the Nazis were deporting hundreds of thousands of Warsaws Jews to the gas chambers of Treblinka. Determined to tell the world what he had seen Karski made his way across occupied Belgium Germany and France his life in danger every step of the way. From France"
X Link 2023-07-28T12:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"5/n he hiked across the Pyrenees into Spain and then traveled to London. British officials were chilly. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden showed little interest in Karskis account of the slaughter of the Jews and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent word that he was too busy to"
X Link 2023-07-28T12:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"BRUNDIBR The Theresienstadt ghetto children's opera 1/n The children's opera Brundibr was written by composer Hans Krsa and writer Adolf Hoffmeister in [----]. In mid-1941 a production of it was directed by"
X Link 2023-07-30T12:04Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Transport XXI from Dossin Barracks Belgium to Auschwitz-Birkenau on [--] July [----] 1/n On July [--] [----] Giza born Gitel Wachspress in Tarnow together with her lover David Weissblum a furrier was put on transport XXI to Auschwitz. The life of this courageous couple became a"
X Link 2023-07-31T13:41Z [----] followers, 18.6K engagements
"@hermiehope Sorry no I'm not"
X Link 2023-07-31T18:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1/n On August [--] [----] the final liquidation of the Bedzin ghetto took place. Several transports were sent each day for the next three or four days. The final destination was the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. Armed resistance broke out for several days by the young"
X Link 2023-08-04T11:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum #OTD Convoy [--] from Drancy France to Auschwitz Birkenau Extermination Camp occupied Poland on August [--] [----] 1/n The convoy leaving Drancy for Auschwitz on August [--] is made up of [---] Jewish children detained in the Pithiviers camps since their arrest on July [--]. They are"
X Link 2023-08-02T13:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Treblinka - The Last Witness 1/n Samuel Willenberg the last survivor of the Treblinka revolt who managed to escape the Nazi death camp in [----] died at the age of [--] in [----]. Willenberg was born in [----] in Czstochowa in southern Poland where his father Perec taught at a"
X Link 2023-08-02T14:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"May [--] [----] The Gypsy roundup in Holland 1/n The Gypsy razzia took place on May [--] [----] and was aimed at rounding up all Roma and Sinti living in the Netherlands. [---] people were arrested that day by the Marechaussee Landwacht and the Dutch state police and then taken to"
X Link 2023-08-02T15:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Margarethe Kraus - Auschwitz Roma survivor 1/n The woman in this postwar photo is Margarethe Kraus a Czech Roma deported to Auschwitz in [----]. Age [--] she underwent maltreatment and forced medical experimentation during her internment. Kraus survived the war; her parents did not"
X Link 2023-08-02T15:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@joecocker15 @soupie66 @AuschwitzMuseum I have also used that page among others but never saw a photo of a gay Auschwitz prisoner having a prefix of some sort"
X Link 2023-08-02T21:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"1/n Wolf van Naarden (b. 1920) nicknamed 'Wollie' was the sole survivor of a transport that set out on August [--] [----] from Westerbork to Auschwitz. After the war he testified in Rotterdam that his entire family had been given three days to report to the assembly point at"
X Link 2023-08-03T13:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Oneg Shabbat - The Ringelblum Archive 1/n After the German occupation of Warsaw in September [----] Emmanuel Ringelblum together with a group of friends began to record in detail what was happening to the Jews of Warsaw and to the Jewish refugees who streamed into the city"
X Link 2023-08-03T18:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"August [--] [----]. Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was born in Liding Sweden. 1/n He saved thousands of Jews from death in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the later stage of WW2 by issuing protective passports while serving as Swedens special envoy in Budapest between July & December 1944"
X Link 2023-08-04T11:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"1/n "Aktion T4" the Nazi euthanasia program T4 Program Nazi German effortframed as a euthanasia programto kill incurably ill physically or mentally disabled emotionally distraught and elderly"
X Link 2023-08-04T13:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Transport I from Dossin Barracks (Malines-Mechelen) Belgium to Auschwitz Birkenau occupied Poland on August [--] [----] 1/n The first transport left Mechelen on August [--]. It consisted of [---] people (426 women and [---] men) and was part of the initial deportation phase to Auschwitz"
X Link 2023-08-04T13:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3/n letters written in both national languages Flemish and French reached their destination. One deportee a [--] year-old German Jewish girl Hanna Karpowitz a native of Knigsberg (Kaliningrad) managed to jump from the first deportation train while still in Belgium. She had first"
X Link 2023-08-04T13:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3/n encounter with One of French Jewry's important leaders from the 1930s into the war years. From the end of [----] until his arrest he served as general director of the General Union of the Jews of France (UGIF) established by the Vichy government in the unoccupied zone under"
X Link 2023-08-04T18:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"4/4 the Nazi occupation. Although written with the circumspection necessary under stressful and dangerous conditions Lambert's Diary reveals his efforts to aid and protect the Jews of France. His actions and those of the UGIF provoked fierce debate and controversy"
X Link 2023-08-04T18:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Hinda Cohen - a powerful message in tiny shoes 1/n Tzipporah (ne Barka) and Dov Cohen lived in Kovno. Their first child died at birth before the war. With the German invasion of Lithuania the couple tried unsuccessfully to escape to Soviet territory and eventually found"
X Link 2023-08-05T15:05Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements
"In January [----] Maurice Pelcman sent an illustrated card from Paris to his friend Evelyn Wittenberg in southern France with her mother on the occasion of her tenth birthday. One month later Maurice was deported to Auschwitz with his family and murdered. Evelyn survived"
X Link 2023-08-05T18:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n Samuel Steinmann the last survivor: I remember thinking were these Nazis or ordinary clear-thinking Norwegians that led me away. Ive wondered what kind of people were these says Samuel Steinmann the sole living Norwegian Auschwitz survivor (Steinmann died in 2015)"
X Link 2023-08-06T17:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Jakub 'Kuba' Lapides A child in the Lodz ghetto 1/n One day they announced in our orphanage that we will travel to a different place and we were told 'Take everything you can.' We went out to wait for the trucks to take us. And then my brother Moshe said to me and Miriam"
X Link 2023-08-07T17:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#OnThisDay August [--] [----]. Anne Frank and the rest of the people in hiding are taken to the Sicherheitsdienst building. After interrogation the eight are kept the House of Detention on the Weteringschans. They were taken to Camp Westerbork "the porch of hell.""
X Link 2023-08-08T18:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n This transport was the first to leave Theresienstadt for Auschwitz in a final wave of [--] such transports. On the evening of September [--] or on the morning of September [--] inmates selected for this transport received written notice of their assignment to a work transport"
X Link 2023-08-08T19:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Spots of light during the Holocaust The dance that Catharina Frank performed in Westerbork saved her life and that of her son. 1/n Catharina was born in [----] in Rotterdam the Netherlands to an affluent family in the textile business. She worked as a nurse for the Jewish"
X Link 2023-08-09T15:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Jakub Gordon 1/n "While I was in block [--] I often came across patients on whom the Germans experimented with fertility loss. I had previously read extensively on this and conversations with prisoner-doctors led me to believe that experiments in that field were aimed at"
X Link 2023-08-09T15:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Gena Turgel was marched into an Auschwitz gas chamber. and walked out alive. Later she tended Anne Frank at Bergen-Belsen. She even got married there. Photo: Gena Tugel 'The Bride of Belsen'"
X Link 2023-08-10T15:33Z [----] followers, 23.6K engagements
"I can still see her lying there with her face which was so red as she had a breakout. And then she died. On [--] April [----] the British army liberated BergenBelsen. Among the soldiers was Norman Turgel whom Gena married [--] months later wearing a wedding dress"
X Link 2023-08-10T15:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"made from a British army parachute. Known as the Bride of Belsen Gena survived the Krakow ghetto Auschwitz Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen ultimately marrying her British liberator Norman Turgel. In [----] she published her testimony I light a candle to tell her"
X Link 2023-08-10T15:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Under pressure from Eleanor Roosevelt the State Department allowed immigration inspectors to interview the Quanza passengers in order to determine their eligibility to enter the United States. After three days of interviews the admission of all [--] refugees was approved"
X Link 2023-08-10T15:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#OTD in [----] Joop Westerweel was executed in the Vught concentration camp. His wife Wil had to witness the execution of her husband. Both were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations"
X Link 2023-08-11T11:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"August [--] was a public holiday in the German Weimar Republic. On this date the signing of Germany's first democratic constitution in [----] was commemorated annually. The photo shows the crowd celebrating the [----] Constitutional Day in front of the Reichstag. It was the last time"
X Link 2023-08-11T11:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1940: Nearly turned back a ship of Holocaust refugees got help from Eleanor Roosevelt 1/n The story of the SS Quanza began on August [--] [----] when it sailed from Lisbon Portugal carrying more than [---] passengers most of whom were Jewish"
X Link 2023-08-11T12:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Gertruda Bablinska 1/n was the oldest of [--] children in a Catholic family. At [--] she went to Warsaw and worked as a nanny for a Jewish family whose survivors emigrated to Palestine after the end of the war and offered to come with them. She initially decided to stay in Poland"
X Link 2023-08-11T17:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"5/n to find refuge with Micha in Vilnius and set off with Emil the family's chauffeur. Emil robbed them on the way and threw them out of the vehicle. They finally reached their destination by horse & cart. In Vilnius Gertruda Bablinska who spoke German provided translations"
X Link 2023-08-11T17:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"6/n for the essentials of life. Lidia Stoowicka suffered from depression and suffered a stroke in [----]. She gave Gertruda Bablinska her wedding ring asked her to raise her son as a Jew and bring him to Palestine where she had distant relatives. Lidia Stoowicka died in April"
X Link 2023-08-11T17:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n On August [--] [----] most Jewish men between the ages of [--] and [--] had to report with their wives and children for 'work expansion in Germany'. After an inspection and registration in Maastricht they were transported to Westerbork and from there put on a train to Auschwitz"
X Link 2023-08-11T17:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@auschwitzxhibit Convoy [--] from Gurs Camp France to Auschwitz Birkenau occupied Poland on 08/08/1942 1/n The August [--] convoy included [----] Jews from four internment camps: [---] from the Gurs camp [---] from the Vernet camp [---] from the Rcbdou camp and [---] from the No camp. During this first"
X Link 2023-08-12T15:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@auschwitzxhibit 4/n not walking fast enough. Some trampled the bodies of old people who could not continue and let themselves fall by the side of the road. None of the conveyors showed a sign of compassion or pity for the deportees." On July [--] [----] Heinz Rthke head of the Jewish affairs"
X Link 2023-08-12T15:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@auschwitzxhibit 5/n section at the Sipo-SD in France sends new directives to the head of the Sipo-SD in France Helmut Knochen and his deputy with the timetable for the [--] following convoys claiming that: German freight cars must be used for the deportations as has been the case so far"
X Link 2023-08-12T15:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"August [--] 1944: less than a week before the liberation of Paris the Germans murder Suzanne Spaak 1/n Suzanne Spaak lived in Paris with her husband Claude a filmmaker and their two children. Spaak as the daughter of a famous Belgian banker and sister-in-law of the Belgian"
X Link 2023-08-12T18:34Z [----] followers, 10K engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum The Diary of Helga Kinsky Pollack 1/n Helga Kinsky-Pollack was [--] years old when she and her father were sent to Terezin in Czechoslovakia. The camp-ghetto at Terezin named Theresienstadt by the Germans had some unique features that were rarely found in other places of"
X Link 2023-08-13T12:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A book box on National Socialism part of a Berlin monument dedicated to Jews deported by the Nazis was set on fire by an unknown person Berlin police said on Saturday. This book box is part of a commemorative set called "Track 17" at Grnewald station in the west of Berlin"
X Link 2023-08-13T12:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@auschwitzxhibit 1/2 Many of the photos in "the Hcker album" were taken at Solahtte a little-known resort for the Nazi German guards and auxiliary personnel of the Auschwitz/Birkenau/Buna facilities. In the photos infamous war criminals like Josef Mengele nicknamed the Angel of Death"
X Link 2023-08-13T13:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/2 Their faces etched with fear Jewish children and mothers carrying toddlers walk unknowingly to their horrendous fate. The above victims from Hungary were among [---] million people murdered by the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp between [----] and late 1944"
X Link 2023-08-13T16:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The #Righteous amongst us Otto Weidt The Blind Schindler 1/n Otto Weidt was born in [----]. During and after WWI he was exonerated for health reasons. He was a convinced pacifist and he suffered from a sight disease. He had to leave his job as an upholsterer and he created a"
X Link 2023-08-14T13:43Z [----] followers, 10.5K engagements
"1/2 First of all they came to take the gypsies and I was happy because they pilfered. Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing because they were unpleasant to me. Then they came to take homosexuals and I was relieved because they were annoying me"
X Link 2023-08-14T13:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n Jews were not the only victims of the Nazi policy of genocide in the Zamosc area. Following the decimation of the Jewish population on [--] November [----] the Zamosc area was declared 'The First Resettlement Area' of the Generalgouvernement. In a brutal example of massive"
X Link 2023-08-15T16:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/n He was born Marcel Mangel on March [--] [----] in Strasbourg France to a Jewish family. His parents were Ann Werzberg Mangel and Charles Mangel a kosher butcher. Young Marcel Mangel discovered Charlie Chaplin at age five when his mother took him to the movies and he became an"
X Link 2023-08-15T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"3/n avid fan. He entertained his friends with Chaplin imitations and dreamed of starring in silent movies. Masquerading as a boy scout Marcel evacuated a Jewish orphanage in eastern France. He told the children he was taking them on a vacation in the Alps and led them to"
X Link 2023-08-15T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n At the start of [----] Slovak representatives made an agreement with the Germans to deport tens of thousands of Jews to German-occupied territories in present-day Poland. Deportations to the concentration and labour camps began on [--] March [----] and lasted for seven months"
X Link 2023-08-15T19:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n More than [-----] Slovak Jews were "resettled" and "deployed for work" during that time. Between [----] and [----] Jewish citizens managed to escape from Slovakia most of them heading for Hungary. Later in the summer of [----] news of the murder of the deported Jews in ghettos"
X Link 2023-08-15T19:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Dr Michael Siegel The Jewish lawyer who survived Nazi violence and humiliation on March [--] [----] 1/n"
X Link 2023-08-16T19:15Z [----] followers, 21K engagements
"#OTD [--] August 1944: Drancy camp near Paris is liberated 1/n While the Allies landed in Normandy on June [--] [----] and the fighting for the liberation of French territory raged Alos Brunner the Nazi commander of the Drancy camp continued the hunting of Jews"
X Link 2023-08-17T10:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3/n On July [--] [--] days before the liberation of the Drancy camp [----] internees including [---] children were deported to the Auschwitz camp. In the camp reigns an atmosphere of terror. Certain signs announce the imminent departure of the Nazis"
X Link 2023-08-17T10:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"4/n The latter give the order to destroy the camp archives but internees manage to save the names file of the Drancy camp. Despite Brunner's efforts to deport the remaining thousand internees the railway workers' strike decreed by the Resistance paralyzed the railway network"
X Link 2023-08-17T10:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/3 The first mass transport of prisoners by Nazi Germany to Auschwitz was organised on [--] June [----]. The transport departed from the southern Polish city of Tarnw & consisted of [---] Poles. They were dubbed 'political prisoners' & members of the Polish resistance. Most were"
X Link 2023-08-17T11:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"15/n guards and camp officials.Of the [--] defendants which included four inmats accused of crimes against other inmates [--] were sentenced to death; the rest were sentenced to prison. Josef with his father after the war"
X Link 2023-08-18T12:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"16/16 Schleifstein didnt talk about his experiences even with his own children until decades later. The family had settled inBrooklyn where a second child was born in [----]. Israel Schleifstein died in [----] and his wife in 1997"
X Link 2023-08-18T12:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Otto Weidt did everything to protect its Jewish workers from persecution and deportation. The catalog for the new permanent exhibition in the Museum #Blindenwerkstatt OttoWeidt tells about this with many photos documents and biographies. Can be ordered here"
X Link 2023-08-18T18:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Auschwitz Phenol injections 1/n The most active applicator of phenol injections is SS-Oberscharfhrer Josef Klehr who has a special room reserved for this purpose in hospital Block [--] in Auschwitz I. Prisoners undress in the adjacent washroom; then they are murdered in the"
X Link 2023-08-19T13:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Eugen Herman A Jewish boy disguised as a Hitler Youth 1/n When he was sixteen Eugen Herman lived with his mother and his non-Jewish stepfather in Berlins Kreuzberg district. After a Gestapo ofcer harassed him on the street in late January of [----] his stepfather"
X Link 2023-08-19T13:29Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements
"A hidden Catholic gem: Blessed Sara Salkahazi rescuer of Jews from the Nazis 1/n Nazi ideology was sweeping Hungary and the Hungarian Nazi Party was gaining strength. They began to persecute the Jews. The Sisters of Social Service began to provide safe havens for Jewish people"
X Link 2023-08-19T13:41Z [----] followers, 12.2K engagements
"On the 14th of May [----] Jewish men between the ages of [--] and [--] were called to present themselves to the Paris police. They were summoned using a green postcard for which this wave of arrests became known as the billet vert"
X Link 2023-08-20T12:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Walter Sskind: not a traitor but a resistance hero 1/n One day German Jew Walter Sskind walked into the offices of the Jewish Council and told leaders Cohen and Asscher that terrible things were happening in the German extermination camps. The gentlemen thought it was better"
X Link 2023-08-20T13:12Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements
"8/n Sskind updated the lists the Germans had no idea how many children belonged to a family. Walter Sskind and the directors of the nursery Henritte Pimentel and Virginia Cohen were able to hide the children and let them escape. At least [---] children were saved this way"
X Link 2023-08-20T13:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"9/9 Eventually the Sskind family was deported to end up in Theresienstadt. Sskind had a letter stating he was indispensable to the Germans; it did not help him his wife and child. He survived them only a few months on March [--] [----] he was killed his body was never found"
X Link 2023-08-20T13:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#OTD in [----] bombs were dropped on a factory not far from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. 1/n In May [----] the BBC in London broadcast credible reports of the murder of Polish Jews which were rebroadcast a month later on June [--]. This information which reached the"
X Link 2023-08-20T13:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Oswald Bosko policeman from Vienna. When the Krakow ghetto was dissolved in [----] he saved small Jewish children from murder. He hid them in sacks & carried them out of the ghetto. The Nazis found out in [----] & murdered him. Bosko is named "Righteous Among the Nations" Oswald Bosko Polizist aus Wien. Bei der Auflsung des Krakauer Ghettos [----] rettet er jdische Kleinkinder vor der Ermordung. Er versteckt sie in Scken und trgt sie aus dem Ghetto. Die Nazis finden das [----] heraus und ermorden ihn. Bosko gilt als Gerechter unter den Vlkern. https://t.co/R0wHJgsNBI Oswald Bosko Polizist aus Wien."
X Link 2023-08-20T17:44Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n The Turkish government was adamant about protecting [---] soulsa small fraction of the country's ill-fated Jewish community which numbered tens of thousands & which had seen France as a safe place of refuge. However France abandoned these Jews & Turkey demanded that those"
X Link 2023-08-20T19:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n [---] people be placed under its aegis thereby granting them immunity from the Nazi decrees. Those Jews who possessed a valid Turkish passport were permitted by the French authorities to return to Istanbul by rail in cars that bore the Turkish crescent & star. Successful"
X Link 2023-08-20T19:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@rahneefifi I didn't find a detailed record so far but between [---] and [---] children were saved this way. Some were reunited with remaing family members some orphans were raised by non-Jewish parents"
X Link 2023-08-21T11:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Auschwitz - Prisoner's belongings 1/n Jews called up for deportation were given clear instructions regarding luggage by the SS. But they were given little time to select what to take with them on the harrowing journey to the murder sites"
X Link 2023-08-21T15:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/n The train journeys they boarded were disguised as labour deployment or resettlement in the east. The provision of luggage let these people hold onto a sense that they were still connected to their old world and that there was a promise of life at their destination"
X Link 2023-08-21T15:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"3/n [--] travel bags were permitted per person: a suitcase a piece of hand luggage and a rucksack which together could not exceed [--] kilograms. People filled their allowances with clothing bedding crockery and footwear often the finest pairs of shoes personal documents"
X Link 2023-08-21T15:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum Helga Weissova entered Theresienstadt when she was only [--] years old. She brought a box of paints and a notebook with her and drew more than a hundred paintings as instructed by her father: Paint whatever you see. She was one of the few survivors"
X Link 2023-08-21T19:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The story of a French village and its Pastor who saved over [----] Jews from persecution 1/n Through an extraordinary campaign of non-violent resistance during World War II residents of LE CHAMBON-SUR-LIGNON saved thousands of Jews from deportation and certain death"
X Link 2023-08-22T16:35Z [----] followers, 15.4K engagements
"9/9 anybody and refused to sign any document. These actions of rescue were unusual during the period of the Holocaust insofar as they involved the majority of the population of an entire region. On January [--] [----] Andr Trocm was recognized as Righteous among the Nations"
X Link 2023-08-22T17:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"1945: War is over - Displaced Persons Camps 1/n Although liberation brought freedom to those persecuted and imprisoned by the Nazis it was also a time of confusion and difficulty. Those who had survived the Holocaust had to come to terms with the loss of their family home"
X Link 2023-08-24T12:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"10/n effects of persecution on survivors rising antisemitism on local and international fronts the number of orphans and new children born within the camps. These issues were extremely frustrating for the survivors who had experienced significant trauma throughout the war"
X Link 2023-08-24T12:38Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"11/n years and were desperate to restart their lives. The creation of Israel in combination with the Displaced Persons Act of June [----] (which allowed the admission of [------] European refugees into the United States of America) allowed mass emigration out of Europe and"
X Link 2023-08-24T12:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Convoy [--] from Drancy Camp France to Auschwitz Birkenau occupied Poland on 08/24/1942 1/n The convoy that left Drancy on August [--] [----] included [---] Jewish children interned in the Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers camps since their arrest on July [--]. These children were"
X Link 2023-08-24T15:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""No one would have believed me so I shut up." Sam Braun 1/n Sam was born in Paris on August [--] [----] but spent his childhood and early adolescence in Clermont-Ferrand. His parents immigrants married in France were naturalized in [----] (his mother came from Kishinev the"
X Link 2023-08-25T12:24Z [----] followers, 12.7K engagements
"An aerial view taken by Allied aircraft #OnThisDay in [----] over Auschwitz-Birkenau. Although the exact location of the gas chambers was known they were not bombed"
X Link 2023-08-25T13:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The last Jew in Vinnitsa [----] 1/n A picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldiers personal album labeled on the back as Last Jew of Vinnitsa. It shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa Ukraine in 1941"
X Link 2023-08-25T19:09Z [----] followers, 49.5K engagements
"Vichy France: The roundup of August [--] [----] 1/n Six weeks after the Vl dHiv roundup in Paris the Vichy regime committed another unspeakable crime by arresting some [----] Jews in the non-occupied zone on August [--] [----] an event that remains little-known [--] years on"
X Link 2023-08-26T13:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"8/8 the Vnissieux camp just outside Lyon where the association Christian Fellowship managed to get [---] children out of the prison to safety"
X Link 2023-08-26T13:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum @UCL_Holocaust Georges Horan: Left: 'Arrival of the children at Drancy' Right: 'Arrival at the camp'"
X Link 2023-08-26T14:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The story of the children saved from Vnissieux 1/n Everyone knows about the Vel d'Hiv roundup not the Vnissieux roundup. On August [--] [----] foreign Jews were rounded up in all the departments of the Lyon region. A refugee from Grenoble Jean Stern [--] at the time was arrested"
X Link 2023-08-26T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"13/n right to act quickly. Vichy wants to immediately recover the fugitives. From Monday the mounted police raided the Carmelites then landed in the offices of the OSE and at the headquarters of the Christian Friendship in vain. Of the [--] rescued children identified [--] thus"
X Link 2023-08-26T14:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"14/n escaped the gas chambers (three were taken back). Some stayed in France others now live in Switzerland Belgium South Africa the United States or Israel. Over time their number decreases. But the night of August [--] and the memory of their parents marked them forever"
X Link 2023-08-26T14:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1/n The children's home in CHAMONIX provided a safe haven for dozens of children most of them Jewish from late [----] until the liberation of France in the summer of [----]. The home was established by Juliette Vidal & Marinette Guy later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations"
X Link 2023-08-27T12:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"6/n guidance of Vidal & Guy children preserved their Jewish identity. On Friday nights Sabbath eve they were separated from the Christian children and lit Sabbath candles sang songs and learned about Judaism. Vidal and Guy expected the staff to observe the Jewish festivals"
X Link 2023-08-27T12:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"7/n children and gave them presents. The evacuation of the children from the home began in spring [----]. A group of about ten children was smuggled into Spain and from there they made their way to Eretz Israel. On [--] August [----] two days after the liberation of Paris"
X Link 2023-08-27T12:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#OTD In [----] Franois and Berthe Bousson were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. They hid little Jacques for years and took care of him as if he were their own son. 1/n"
X Link 2023-08-27T14:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Just before his execution Jean Quarr French professional football player and resistant sticks his tongue out for the Nazi photographer. Courage until the very end. He was 22"
X Link 2023-08-28T14:06Z [----] followers, 34.8K engagements
"1/n In [----] after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany the Nazis introduced a law to legalize eugenic sterilization to control population growth among Gypsies and most of the Germans of black color. In [----] the Nazis Office of Racial Hygiene issued a statement saying"
X Link 2023-08-28T14:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A transport left Theresienstadt on December [--] [----]. On board were [----] men women & children most under the age of [--]. It arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau the next day on December [--]. 1/n One of the survivors Judith Jgermann (ne Pinczowska) describes the"
X Link 2023-08-28T15:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#OTD in [----] Polish-Jewish lawyer Rafa Lemkin passed away. Lemkin coined the term "GENOCIDE" 1/2 The scale of mass murder in the Nazi concentration/extermination camps was such that Raphael Lemkin created a new term to describe what occurred to European Jews under Nazi rule"
X Link 2023-08-28T18:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@auschwitzxhibit 4/n This list included [---] notably called defendant Uhlenbroock was listed with the number of [---]. He was accused to have divided and ordered selections in inmate health construction camp doctors to the so-called "ramp service". On [--] November [----] Uhlenbroock was released"
X Link 2023-08-29T11:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"1/n "Red Plague" (Polish: Czerwona Zaraza) is a poem written in [----] by Jzef Szczepaski a World War IIera poet who died during the Warsaw Uprising. The poem which described the failed hopes of Warsaw insurgents that the Red Army would save them was banned in the People's"
X Link 2023-08-29T12:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 4/n Living conditions at the children's camp were poor leading to a high mortality rate. According to survivors some children were killed by being given poisoned milk or gruel laced with caustic soda. On other occasions camp commander Antun Najer administered children with"
X Link 2023-08-30T09:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 5/n lethal injections. Thousands of children were saved from the camp as a result of rescue efforts spearheaded by the humanitarian Diana Budisavljevi and the local communist underground. Sisak II was dissolved in January [----]. The exact number of children who perished there is"
X Link 2023-08-30T09:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 6/6 unknown but estimates range from [----] to [----] largely as a result of starvation thirst typhus and neglect. In April [----] the Germans ceded control of Sisak I to the Ustae. It was shut down in January [----] and its remaining inmates were dispatched to Jasenovac"
X Link 2023-08-30T09:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Kiel - Germany [----] 1/n For the Hanukkah festival in [----] Rahel the wife of Rabbi Dr. Akiba Posner the family's Hanukkah candlestick against the backdrop of the building opposite which was decorated with Nazi flags"
X Link 2023-08-30T10:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Blanche if its a boy name him Jacob Ben Meier. If its a girl name her Rachel." 1/n Meier Vieijra was born on [--] December [----] in Amsterdam. In [----] Meier married Blanche Nabarro"
X Link 2023-08-31T12:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/n Meiers parents lived in central Amsterdam near the Portuguese Synagogue the square that became the scene of the first large round-up of Jews in Amsterdam on 22-23 February [----]. On [--] February Meier was on his way to visit his mother when he was brutally arrested on"
X Link 2023-08-31T12:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum A Survivor Thanks the Nazi Who Saved Him 1/n A German Gerhard Kurzbach took [---] Jews off the train under the pretext that he needed them to work. Among them were my parents . "and that day [----] Gerhard Kurzbach was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations"
X Link 2023-08-31T14:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The most urgent the most disgraceful the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence. Follow @AuchwitzMuseum and learn from the past. History can and will repeat itself when we are caught off guard. Don't ever let this happen"
X Link 2023-08-31T17:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"6/n ended up winning the contest. The irony of the fact that a Jewish baby had won a Nazi propaganda contest designed to showcase the ideal Aryan child set up by the office of Goebbels was not lost on Hessy's mother who later said:"
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"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n The Jewish community of Norway was hit hard by the Holocaust. The first anti-Jewish measure was introduced just a month after the beginning of the Nazi occupation in May [----] when radios of Jews were confiscated. In October [----] registration of Jewish property started;"
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"@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n a number of Jewish owned firms and businesses were confiscated. In January [----] a decree was issued requiring all Jews to have a red J stamped in their identification papers. During this period there were some arrests of Jewish men who were sent to prisons and labor"
X Link 2023-09-01T19:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Jakub 'Kuba' Lapides A child in the Lodz ghetto 1/n One day they announced in our orphanage that we will travel to a different place and we were told 'Take everything you can.' We went out to wait for the trucks to take us. And then my brother Moshe said to me and Miriam"
X Link 2023-09-02T12:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"1/n Robert Clary was a French-American actor published author and lecturer. He is best known for his role in the television sitcom Hogans Heroes as Corporal LeBeau (Frenchie). Clary was born Robert Max Widerman in Paris France on March [--] 1926"
X Link 2023-09-02T14:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The audacity 🐱"
X Link 2023-09-02T18:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"On universal phenomena The British empire caused [---] million deaths in India in [--] years. A new study found that British colonialism caused approximately [---] million deaths in India from [----] to [----]. The British stole $45tn in just over [---] years. This is what the empire was really like starvation https://t.co/AgI9rZltPD The British empire caused [---] million deaths in India in [--] years. A new study found that British colonialism caused approximately [---] million deaths in India from [----] to [----]. The British stole $45tn in just over [---] years. This is what the empire was really like"
X Link 2023-09-02T20:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"1/n On September [--] [----] a roundup shook Belgium: [----] Jews from Brussels and Antwerp were arrested. From [----] and [----] 44% of the Jews of Belgium or [-----] people half of whom were women and children were deported from Mechelen (Dossin Barracks) to Auschwitz"
X Link 2023-09-03T11:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""One gets tired of seeing stupidity triumph without a fight." Albert Camus"
X Link 2023-09-03T11:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""The Dunera Boys" 1/n As the storm clouds of war gathered in the late 1930s thousands of German refugees - either Jewish or politically opposed to the Nazis - fled to Britain for sanctuary. Little did many of them know they would soon be"
X Link 2023-09-03T17:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"September [--] [----] - The Czstochowa massacre (aka Bloody Monday) 1/n took place on September [--] [----] and was a mass murder of more than [----] Polish and Jewish civilians carried out by the German Wehrmacht forces on the 4th day of World War II in the Polish city of Czstochowa"
X Link 2023-09-04T11:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#OTD [--] September [----] the SS purchased a defunct brick factory and the surrounding land in NEUENGAMME. 1/n Soon a 6-year reign of terror began. Over the course of the most shameful chapter of Hamburg's history tens of thousands of people were held"
X Link 2023-09-04T13:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"8/n clothes off before they were hanged and he used to shout Get a move on the quicker you are the quicker you will be dead or words to that effect. I heard that sometimes these people were not killed outright and afterwards Dreimann would go to the mortuary"
X Link 2023-09-04T13:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"9/9 and strangle the bodies with his own hands." On May [--] [----] Neuengamme camp was finally liberated"
X Link 2023-09-04T13:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n Odette Daltroff Baticle recalled: "We will never forget the faces of these children; constantly they pass before my eyes. They are serious deep and this is extraordinary in these little figures the horror of the days they are going through is stigmatized in them"
X Link 2023-09-04T18:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"They closed up all the streets in the ghetto and they started taking sick people old people and children to ten years old thrown on wagonsit was horrible and they took my baby away too. Frances Gage 1/n"
X Link 2023-09-05T10:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/n On September [--] [----] the mass deportation known as the Sperre began - the roundup and removal of more than [-----] children elderly and ill Jews in a one-week period from the Lodz Ghetto. This Aktion profoundly shocked the Jews of the ghetto"
X Link 2023-09-05T10:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1/n On September [--] [----] the exhibition "The Jew and France" was inaugurated at the Palais Berlitz in Paris. Initiated by the Institute for the Study of Jewish Questions it will attract [------] visitors before being presented in [----] in Annecy and Bordeaux"
X Link 2023-09-05T10:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@auschwitzxhibit 1/n As in the rest of occupied Europe compulsory wearing of the yellow badge was enforced from [--] May [----]. The Belgian version of the badge depicted a black letter "J" (standing for both "Juif" in French and "Jood" in Dutch) in the centre of a yellow star of David. The"
X Link 2023-09-05T15:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n Louis Alexandre Buvat was born on September [--] [----] in Bourges with his parents Auguste Buvat fitter and Julie Cocu. Louis had a sister Camille Pauline born September [--] [----] and two brothers Albert born January [--] [----] and Adrien Auguste born April [--] 1888"
X Link 2023-09-06T10:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n At the beginning of [----] for a reason still to be specified Louis was arrested and then finally interned at the German camp of Royallieu in Compigne (AKA the communists' camp). Between the end of April and the end of June [----] he was selected with more than [----] hostages"
X Link 2023-09-06T10:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 4/n foot under German escort to the station of Compigne in the town of Margny & piled into freight cars. On July [--] [----] Louis Buvat was registered at the Auschwitz base camp (Auschwitz-I) under nr [-----]. Louis Buvat died in Auschwitz on September [--] [----] according to camp"
X Link 2023-09-06T10:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 5/5 records; assassinated after hitting an SS with a shovel according to the testimonies of Georges Rousseau and Roger Gauthier. According to the camp's death certificate established by the SS administration the cause of his death was "heart failure""
X Link 2023-09-06T10:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 6/n Soviets and the Polish Red Cross on the grounds of the main camp immediately after liberation. After examining [---] children aged [--] months to [--] years a forensic medical commission reported that the majority of them were suffering from diseases acquired in the camp"
X Link 2023-09-06T10:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AuschwitzMuseum 7/7 60% showed vitamin deficiency & overall organism weakening 40% of them had tuberculosis. All children were underweight by [--] - [--] kilograms despite the fact that the majority of them had been transported to Auschwitz in the second half of [----] & were there only a short time"
X Link 2023-09-06T10:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The Etty Hillesum diary 1/n"
X Link 2023-09-06T14:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
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