# ![@RudiGeerts Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::981082393.png) @RudiGeerts Cowboy Tcherno Bill

Cowboy Tcherno Bill posts on X about germany, in the, paris, france the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  33.91% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  8.7% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  1.74% [finance](/list/finance)  1.74% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  0.87% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  0.87% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  0.87%

**Social topic influence**
[germany](/topic/germany) #1541, [in the](/topic/in-the) 10.43%, [paris](/topic/paris) 7.83%, [france](/topic/france) #2695, [german](/topic/german) #291, [poland](/topic/poland) #33, [belgium](/topic/belgium) 3.48%, [vichy](/topic/vichy) #40, [end of](/topic/end-of) 3.48%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 2.61%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"FYI: Scientific research for the documentary "Love it was not" https://ikf.ac.at/en/schwerpunkte/hist-sozialforschung/oral-history/2017-wissenschaftliche-recherche-zum-dokumentarfilm-liebe-war-es-nie/#::text=The%20documentary%20%22Love%20it%20was%20not%22%20by%20the%20Israeli%20directorher%20husband https://ikf.ac.at/en/schwerpunkte/hist-sozialforschung/oral-history/2017-wissenschaftliche-recherche-zum-dokumentarfilm-liebe-war-es-nie/#::text=The%20documentary%20%22Love%20it%20was%20not%22%20by%20the%20Israeli%20directorher%20husband"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022644889452974107)  2026-02-14T12:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Love It Was Not (Liebe war es nie) Documentary (2020) The tragic love story of Helena Citron a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch. 🧵1/n In March [----] Helena Citrnov was among the first thousand Jewish women who were transported"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022638052749840697)  2026-02-14T11:44Z [----] followers, 14.7K engagements


"Todays gift A Nazi magazine held a photo contest for the perfect Aryan baby. They made just one mistake when they picked the winner. Thread 1/n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022704865005142292)  2026-02-14T16:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The inhumanity of Auschwitz [----]. A 15-year-old Russian boy Ivan Dudnik is rescued. The teen was brought to Auschwitz from his home in the Orel region by the Nazis. He had gone insane from witnessing the horrors of the camp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2016156867710382297)  2026-01-27T14:30Z [----] followers, 13.5K engagements


"Anne Frank's diary Saturday January [--] [----] 1/n Dearest Kitty Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk ridiculous when I'm silent insolent when I answer cunning when I have a good idea lazy when I'm tired selfish when I eat one bite more than I should stupid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2017199628781809822)  2026-01-30T11:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"January [--] [----] 1/n German President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen starting a [--] year Nazi rule of Germany that ended only when Germany was defeated in The 2nd World War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2017199881090207766)  2026-01-30T11:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"June [--] [----] Erich Maria Remarque is born 1/n While studying at the University of Mnster he was called up for military service in [----]. Remarque fought on the Western Front and was wounded several times. After being hit by a Shrapnel grenade in Belgium in 1917"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2017553692774306164)  2026-01-31T11:00Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum Prisoners like Henryk Wasik who had escaped from concentration camps and had been recaptured were marked with a red dot (the so-called Fluchtpunkt or Escape Dot) on the front and back a sort of target for the guards should the prisoners try to escape again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2017585408494670201)  2026-01-31T13:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Women survivors in Buchenwald after liberation. 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2017942758200070422)  2026-02-01T12:46Z [----] followers, 10.2K engagements


"Krysia Kucynski Love marriage & tragedy in the ghetto 🧵 1/n "For me it was love at first sight but for him it began slowly." Krysia Kucynski born in [----] married Salomon (Salek) Kucynski in the Sosnowiec ghetto. When the ghetto was liquidated the young people were sent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2018289617934385239)  2026-02-02T11:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum 3/n After a storm destroyed the "tent camp" that month camp officials established the so-called small women's camp (Kleines Frauenlager) and transferred the surviving prisoners of the tent camp to the small women's camp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2018319885651046876)  2026-02-02T13:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum 4/4 Conditions in this camp deteriorated further as new prisoners arrived. Among these women were Anne Frank and her sister Margot both of whom died in Bergen-Belsen in February or March 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2018319985123180774)  2026-02-02T13:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n Ludwig (Yom Tov) was detained in camp Gurs. Gurs was a large concentration camp near Pau in southwestern France at the foot of the Pyrenees that was used successively by independent France Vichy France and Nazi Germany. Gurs was built initially to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2018392707761119443)  2026-02-02T18:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n house Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War and later held refugees fleeing persecution in Germany and Austria. When France capitulated to the Germans in June [----] Gurs became the main concentration camp for Marshal Philippe Ptains collaborationist government in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2018392775633355150)  2026-02-02T18:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum 3/n unoccupied (Vichy) France receiving Jews and various dissidents. By [----] there were [-----] inmates including Jews expelled from Germany and Belgium. Malnutrition and wretched sanitation killed great numbers. In late [----] many inmates were deported to the extermination"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2018392891991757191)  2026-02-02T18:35Z [----] 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](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2019033209389093069)  2026-02-04T13:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ginette Kolinka (born February [--] 1925) Survivor and witness of Auschwitz and Theresienstadt 1/n Ginette Kolinka was born on February [--] [----] in Paris into a non-practicing family of Jewish origin. She lived her early childhood in the 4th arrondissement then in Aubervilliers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2019035298085425279)  2026-02-04T13:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"1/2 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](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2019048751143457045)  2026-02-04T14:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"What is important is for young people to know that hatred is one foot in Auschwitz Ginette Kolinka "Ce qui est important c'est que les jeunes sachent que la haine c'est un pied dans Auschwitz" Ginette Kolinka [---] ans aujourd'hui. Un jardin son nom a t inaugur par le Maire de Paris Centre @ArielWeilT https://t.co/U6GyNiTlWF "Ce qui est important c'est que les jeunes sachent que la haine c'est un pied dans Auschwitz" Ginette Kolinka [---] ans aujourd'hui. Un jardin son nom a t inaugur par le Maire de Paris Centre @ArielWeilT https://t.co/U6GyNiTlWF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2019136771620217018)  2026-02-04T19:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"6/n By early [----] after five years of unimaginable suffering Littens physical and mental health had been severely compromised. On February [--] [----] fearing transfer to Dachau camp and unable to endure further torture Hans Litten made the decision to end his own life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2019428689918971977)  2026-02-05T15:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"7/n Hans Littens courage in standing up to Hitler and the Nazi regime both in the courtroom and in the concentration camps has earned him a place among the heroes of resistance against tyranny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2019428698349531156)  2026-02-05T15:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"#OTD February [--] [----] 1/n Alfred Rosenberg explains his "proposal for solving the Jewish question by creating a Jewish reservation in Madagascar or in Guyana" to representatives of the foreign press and diplomats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020143013767303383)  2026-02-07T14:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"4/n Babbitt said she wanted to briefly hold the paintings which bear her signature and then lend them to a museum of her choice. I wouldnt be alive if it hadnt been for those paintings and my kids wouldnt be here said Babbitt who is also survived by another daughter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020144797592306087)  2026-02-07T14:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"5/n Karin Babbitt and three grandchildren. Babbitt and her mother managed to survive Auschwitz and evacuation marches. After liberation Babbitt went to Paris and became an assistant to American cartoonist Art Babbitt one of Disneys Snow White animators"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020144806458999243)  2026-02-07T14:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Hanni Lvy - Hiding in plain sight 1/n Over [----] Berlin Jews survived the war never detected by the Nazis. Hanni Weissenberg sat alone stone-still as the Gestapo pounded on the door. On that cold morning in [----] the German police had"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020176509173133547)  2026-02-07T16:43Z [----] followers, 46.7K engagements


"4/n obedient when such a strong demand comes. Eventually the officers left. Hanni realized there was only one way to avoid getting captured and deported: She had to run. But she didnt go far. In fact she never left Berlin. After the Gestapo stopped their door-pounding and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020176529892770271)  2026-02-07T16:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"5/n moved on Levy cowered in the buildings stairwell. Then with nothing but her purse in hand and with the mandatory ellow Star of David sewn to her coat she ran to the nearest subway stop and showed up quavering at the doorstep of some non-Jewish friends. It was the lady"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020176534578020578)  2026-02-07T16:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"10/n through the end of the war. She said You can stay with me and then perhaps somebody will help my son too when he is in danger." After the Allies took Berlin she and Levy then [--] moved to Paris together. But in time she moved on married a Frenchman had two children"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020176567276884460)  2026-02-07T16:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"11/11 and returned to Berlin home whenever she could. It was very difficult she says of her remarkable journey. But the will to live is stronger than anything else. Hanni passed away on October [--] [----] A film was released in 2017: "The Invisibles". Highly recommended"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020176571693232192)  2026-02-07T16:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"5/n diphtheria have been carried to the snake crying. Parentless children from the Orphanage. Perhaps the most brutal transport of all the transports that have gone on. One loses sight of it because of the multiplicity the rudeness the bestiality but this transport took the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020502730553634931)  2026-02-08T14:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"6/n cake in terms of lack of consideration for the sick. Even before the transport had left a sick person had already died. An empty wagon goes with the train reserved for those who die on the way. Just as there was previously a flight to the hospital for fear of transport"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020502740846408018)  2026-02-08T14:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"7/7 so since yesterday there has been a flight from the hospital due to fear of transport. The doctors issue the password: get out as soon as possible Eighty patients are leaving the hospital today. Barrack [--] and Barrack [--] will be evacuated in their entirety"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020502745367912799)  2026-02-08T14:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"2/n In different periods the number of people who lived here ranged from [---] to more than [---] thousand people. At the time of the completion of the forced Jews eviction (end of April 1940) the ghetto as well as the city had a new name Litzmannstadt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020509796181409889)  2026-02-08T14:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"3/n In addition since the autumn of [----] the ghetto has been serving as one of the Jews and Roma deportation places in Germany. New arrivals fell into a terrible atmosphere of hunger disease and crowding. Imagine that the population density reached [--] thousand people per km2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020509801906590145)  2026-02-08T14:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This five-year-old boy was picking up hot soup for his family. I have often seen him try to sell the few remaining property of the family. He was shot while trying to escape the Germans during the "Children's Action" on March [--] [----] Solly Ganor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020510908871581720)  2026-02-08T14:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n During the occupation period Aalten in The Netherlands sheltered a large number of Jewish and non-Jewish people in hiding - at one point [----] out of a population of [-----] - who were often helped with money collected in the local Reformed congregation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020527915503419807)  2026-02-08T15:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum Louis Castel was born on February [--] [----] in Lzignan-Corbires (Aude). He was married without children. 1/n In [----] when he arrived in Paris he was hired at a Citron factory. He became head of the maintenance team but was dismissed after a strike"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020632457549377676)  2026-02-08T22:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum 4/n than [----] Communists and around [--] Jews whose deportation had been decided in retaliation for armed actions of the Communist resistance against the Germans. On July [--] [----] at dawn the detainees were taken to the station and put into freight cars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020634805109694707)  2026-02-08T23:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum 5/n On July [--] [----] Louis Castel was registered in Auschwitz by number [-----]. After [--] days assigned to a labor commando in Birkenau half of the members of the convoy were brought back to the main camp (Auschwitz-I) after the evening roll call. No document or testimony is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020634893978566739)  2026-02-08T23:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"5/n "What we were seeing was something from the dark ages" wrote Australian journalist Alan Moorehead who arrived at the camp with the troops. "There were many forms lying on the earth partly covered in rags but it was not possible to say whether they were alive or dead or"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020937389657718801)  2026-02-09T19:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Dr Michael Siegel The prominent Jewish lawyer who survived Nazi violence and humiliation on March [--] [----] 1/n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020945598451679519)  2026-02-09T19:39Z [----] followers, 14K engagements


"2/n Dr Siegel had entered a Munich police station on behalf of Max Uhlfelder the Jewish owner of a large city-centre store. Nazi Party members had taken positions of office in Munich a day earlier. Heinrich Himmler the SS commander now commanded the Police Authority"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020945603564536205)  2026-02-09T19:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"3/n The Swastika flew atop public buildings. Nazi paramilitaries had smashed Mr Uhlhelders shop windows and deported him to Dachau concentration camp. Instead of listening to Dr Siegels complaint the police assaulted him. SA brown shirts had perforated Dr Siegels eardrum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020945607074926739)  2026-02-09T19:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"4/n The force of their punches had broken several teeth. They had cut his trousers from the knee down. Dr Siegel was then made to walk the streets of Munich bloody and barefooted. Surrounded by ranks of SA paramilitaries Dr Siegel wore a sign that read: I will never again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020945614851465586)  2026-02-09T19:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"5/n complain to the police. Some debate the actual wording of the sign. Dr Siegel had told his children that it read: Ich bin Jude aber ich will mich nie mehr bei der Polizei Beschweren(I am a Jew but I will never again complain to the Police)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020945619028771214)  2026-02-09T19:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"7/n Later the photograph would appear in the New York Times and other papers in the US Britain Argentina and France: one of the first internationally circulated images of Nazi antisemitism (anti-Jewish hatred)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020945639052349637)  2026-02-09T19:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"8/8 Dr Siegel soon became an international symbol of the antisemitic persecution in Germany. He did not learn of the photo until the 1970s. Dr. Siegel with his son Peter and daughter Beate 1920's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020945649181786158)  2026-02-09T19:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@militaryhistori Thats probably because it is Ancient Greek. 😉"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020961659414786194)  2026-02-09T20:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Today is Holocaust survivor Lusia Haberfeld's birthday. 🧵 1/n Lusia Haberfeld was born in [----] in d Poland. During World War II her family fled to Warsaw but were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto where they endured severe hardship and forced labour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021208778490753264)  2026-02-10T13:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"🧵 1/n The butcher of Lyon After German forces overran western Europe in World War II KLAUS BARBIE served in the Netherlands & in [----] was made chief of Gestapo Department IV in Lyon. In this position he became especially active against French partisans promoting torture &"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021228243127275751)  2026-02-10T14:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"5/5 Maybe the saddest thing of all is the date. By August [----] Paris was liberated. However it took the Allies until September [--] [----] to liberate the city of Lyon (by the French Resistance and the First United States Army). In the meantime Barbie just carried on "  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021228273749913872)  2026-02-10T14:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A prisoner in ragged clothes who was beaten at the Stairs of Death at Mauthausen concentration camp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021248371021804024)  2026-02-10T15:42Z [----] followers, 13.3K engagements


"@auschwitzxhibit Boss had a clothes manufacturing company and in the 1920s he was commissioned to supply brown shirts for the Nazi party. Eventually the Nazis became a good client but they told Boss what to make. He did not design anything. In [----] Boss won contracts to manufacture army uniforms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021293877899002142)  2026-02-10T18:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"4/n joining clubs and teams and visiting public places. To remedy this Fredy arranged a wide variety of educational activities classes and sports programs for Jewish children. Children who survived the war would remember the activities Hirsch arranged fondly gymnastics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021570395543863481)  2026-02-11T13:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"5/n classes and soccer games which made their lives seem a little more normal and bearable. He was also involved in Zionist causes and assisted in efforts to bring Jewish children to Palestine. When he was deported to Theresienstadt in December [----] Fredy organized activities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021570404695802097)  2026-02-11T13:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"8/n called the Family Camp. Fredy supervised the hundreds of children in the camp. He did everything he could to make life better for the children even in the middle of Auschwitz. Through his charm and impeccable bearing he managed to convince the SS to provide more food and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021570428913766878)  2026-02-11T13:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"9/n to treat them better overall. Tragically Fredy was unable to save them. In March [----] all the children who arrived on the September transport were murdered by the Nazis. Rudolf Vrba visited Hirsch on [--] March to inform him about the preparations for the liquidation of the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021570432936149414)  2026-02-11T13:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Last Man to Die Photograph by Robert Capa during the battle for Leipzig depicting an American soldier Raymond J. Bowman aged [--] after being killed by a German sniper on [--] April [----] shortly before the end of World War II in Europe. Germany surrendered two weeks later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021578803357667769)  2026-02-11T13:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"3/n station platform thanks to the help of [--] other railway workers. A point of light in the dark history of the railway company requisitioned by the French state of Vichy at the request of the German occupation authorities to deport thousands of Jews to the death camps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021588738070007843)  2026-02-11T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"4/n On September [--] [----] several Jewish children including Jacques and Jean Stulzaft children of Lille merchants were transferred to Lille-Fives station after having been arrested and taken to the Kommandantur in Lille. Henriette and Jacques hidden and saved by Marcel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021588746743718302)  2026-02-11T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"5/n Among the railway workers at this station many of whom were resistance fighters was Marcel Hoffmann: "On September [--] [----] the Israelites were picked up and parked at Fives station under the surveillance of German gendarmes to then be sent to the death camps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021588750862627172)  2026-02-11T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"6/n Listening only to my patriotism and out of humanity I slipped into this group and disregarding the danger I ran and the sometimes dangerous adventures I used cunning." A second rescue Once saved the two brothers were hosted by a family of railway workers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021588754041831924)  2026-02-11T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"7/n But Jacques was injured during a bombing on November [--] [----]. Operated at the Saint-Sauveur hospital in Lille the boy received a visit from Marcel who quickly understood that the head nurse had suspicions about the boy's origin and risked being handed over to the Gestapo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021588762942185661)  2026-02-11T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"8/8 The railway worker saved his life a second time by taking him out of the hospital. In the post-war era he went as far as Germany to bring back the few members of the Stulzaft family who survived extermination. Jacques Stulzaft: if Im here its thanks to Marcel Hoffmann"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021588774094799349)  2026-02-11T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Globalstats11 Struggling with calculus arent we [--]. Austria - $604.2 Billion [--]. Ireland - $750.1 Billion [--]. Belgium - $761.2 Billion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021648740315238891)  2026-02-11T18:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@chefsevenn The controversial small green cabbage did not originate from Brussels Belgium but just outside the city walls in the nearby Saint-Gilles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021669368506331374)  2026-02-11T19:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"8/n With the wars end he went searching for Gita finding her eventually in her home village. The couple married in October [----] and settled in Bratislava opening a silk fabric factory. When the communists nationalised all private business Lales factory was taken from him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021960073455841698)  2026-02-12T14:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"9/n his assets were confiscated and he was thrown into prison. Through judicial contacts he was freed but warned that he and Gita should leave Slovakia. Via Paris and Vienna they travelled to Australia in [----] where they opened a factory With their son Gary in the 1960s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021960083664494756)  2026-02-12T14:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"10/n making ladies clothing in Melbourne. Their son Gary was born in [----]. Lale was always passionate about sport and gave large donations to the young athletes who represented Australia at the Maccabiah Games the Jewish Olympics held in Israel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021960093408109003)  2026-02-12T14:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n All Jewish families living in Brieele (Dutch: Den Briel) Gazan Cohen and Katan were targets of the Germans. They had to close their shops and see how they made a living. Moses and his family had to leave their caf-restaurant and cinema 'Luxor'. In [----] the German occupier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021979588159844455)  2026-02-12T16:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CFM1978 Of course you can. P.S. Its a persiflage of the British Queens speech in [----] when Prince Charles divorced from Diana. [----] is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022379797150863638)  2026-02-13T18:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mpmeyer2404 Its a bit complicated. Her parents divorced before the war. Her mother gnes Szolt remarried and moved to France while Eva stayed in Hungary. Her mother was also deported (Bergen-Belsen) but she was rescued with the Kastner train and made it to Switzerland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022421361118061019)  2026-02-13T21:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@r_glimpses @mazoe71 @nazaretanska Well technically it was Ukraine by that time. The kids in the photo are uniformed Ukrainian militia. And yes I explained that several times over. Because of the massive response either positive or negative its a bit late now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022444204467819003)  2026-02-13T22:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum Radomsko is situated in the vicinity of Lodz 1/n After the conquest of Poland by Germany & the Soviet Union in September [----] most of the Jews remaining within the area occupied by Germany approximately [---] million were imprisoned in ghettos. In June [----] after the German"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022735499920630262)  2026-02-14T18:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n invasion of the Soviet Union the Germans began to imprison the rest of Polish Jewry in ghettos & to deport them to concentration & slave labor camps. In December [----] the murder of the Jews from the d ghetto began in Chelmno with gas vans. Murder of Polish Jews in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022735557017665865)  2026-02-14T18:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Anne Franks diary Friday [--] February [----] 1/n Dear Kitty This afternoon Mr. van Daan again brought up the fact that Margot eats so little. "I suppose you do it to keep your figure" he added in a mocking tone. Mother who always comes to Margot's defense said in a loud voice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020579558521770268)  2026-02-08T19:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Marcel Hoffmann Lille railway worker named Righteous Among the Nations 1/n Marcel Hoffmann posthumously received the medal and diploma of Righteous Among the Nations on November [--] [----]. This railway worker who died in [----] saved around forty Jewish children and adults"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2021588724614578351)  2026-02-11T14:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@_AlixVR In this case they were mostly Ukrainian militia. I think youre confusing this event with the Holocaust in Lithuania in large part committed by the local population (indoctrinated by German propaganda)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022343504526254269)  2026-02-13T16:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum More than [-------] Jews were deported Illustration by Georges Horan-Koiransky (1894-1986)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022375734950428963)  2026-02-13T18:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


""Don't be afraid of the stupid who know nothing but of the sly who don't feel anything." Erich Kstner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/1656696505795850242)  2023-05-11T16:23Z [----] followers, 75.2K engagements


"Wilhelm Hosenfeld savior of "The Pianist" Wladyslaw Szpilman 🧵 Although Hosenfeld had already joined the NSDAP in [----] he soon lost his illusions about the regime and was appalled by the crimes against Poles and Jews that he witnessed. Throughout his military service he kept"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/1857820263502483624)  2024-11-16T16:17Z [----] followers, 91.1K engagements


"@AuschwitzMuseum A 15-year-old Russian boy Ivan Dudnik is rescued by the Polish Red Cross. The teen was brought to Auschwitz from his home in the Orel region by the Nazis. He had gone insane from witnessing the horrors of the camp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2019460004433056072)  2026-02-05T17:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"February [--] [----] Josef Mengele known as the Angel of Death dies as a free man in Brazil. 1/n In Auschwitz young artist Dina Babbitt had to paint portraits of other inmates Romani people who were to serve as models for racial inferiority project devised by doctor Mengele"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020144768345338049)  2026-02-07T14:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Portrait of a starving child eating a piece of bread in a hospital in the Warsaw ghetto. Warsaw ghetto 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020278934622163150)  2026-02-07T23:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@rayner_susannah About Gemmeker: 1/2 After the war an eyewitness gave this account: "Indescribable scenes followed. Penetrating screams of a dead-scared half-crazed mother the crying of children the dumb-struck looks of some of the men and the lamentation of the people who stayed behind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020582796746776991)  2026-02-08T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@rayner_susannah 2/n This caused shivers to run down my spine." And another eyewitness had this to contribute: "People who were selected for transport began packing their belongings and clothed their children. They got ready for the trip knowing very well that no reprieve was forthcoming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020582967739916708)  2026-02-08T19:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"6/n simply in the process of dying." Severely underweight and developmentally delayed Eva was nearly placed in a children's institution after she was sent to Sweden for recuperation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2020937397975085330)  2026-02-09T19:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Human greatness. Avraham Weissman a violin teacher conducted one last lesson for the children in the Theresienstadt ghetto. They played a lullaby for a world that never listened. On [--] September [----] the music stopped at Auschwitz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022059954145046571)  2026-02-12T21:27Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements


"@cabbage4711 Thank you. Youre too kind. However I always keep my word. This story wont just disappear; it will be available on my LinkedIn account"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022060920529424608)  2026-02-12T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@cabbage4711 Sorry its Bluesky"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022121519619747881)  2026-02-13T01:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"4/n in a ghetto-camp and on every house theyve pasted a notice which tells exactly what were not allowed to do . Actually everything is forbidden but the most awful thing of all is that the punishment for everything is death. There is no difference between things;"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022287633615860179)  2026-02-13T12:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"5/n no standing in the corner no spankings no taking away food no writing down the declension of irregular verbs one hundred times the way it used to be in school. Eva's mother Agnes Zsolt pictured on the right escaped to Switzerland on the Kasztner train in December 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022287643627634699)  2026-02-13T12:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"6/n Not at all: the lightest and heaviest punishment death. It doesnt actually say that this punishment also applies to children but I think it does apply to us too. The diary ends on May [--] [----] a few days before her deportation with the words:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022287648367284517)  2026-02-13T12:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"7/n ". dear diary I dont want to die; I want to live even if it means that Ill be the only person here allowed to stay. I would wait for the end of the war in some cellar or on the roof or in some secret cranny. I would even let the gendarme who took our flour kiss me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022287657586266245)  2026-02-13T12:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Jan Komski: (born [--] February 1915) Auschwitz through the Eyes of a Polish Inmate 1/n Like many young men in early months of the war Jan Komski a Polish Roman Catholic was arrested on the Poland/Czechoslovakia border attempting to reach the newly formed Polish Army in France"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022303511128441000)  2026-02-13T13:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A Jewish woman being chased down the streets of the Lviv ghetto in Poland where at least [----] Jews were murdered during a pogrom by militias and German forces (July 1941)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022318826503733573)  2026-02-13T14:35Z [----] followers, 231.3K engagements


"@Luisacker The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive pogroms and massacres of Jews in June and July [----] in the city of Lww in German-occupied Eastern Poland/Western Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms_(1941) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms_(1941)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022332151770059250)  2026-02-13T15:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@SiggiSGE @SystemStatus80 @verena_ramona Stimmt. Mai [----]. Der St. Louis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022432842719072422)  2026-02-13T22:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"3/n and falls head over heels in love with the young woman who in turn falls for her captor. Love It Was Not is the true story of an unlikely affair which managed to sprout amidst the horrors of war. Through photo collages diary entries and interviews with the survivors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022638075843604651)  2026-02-14T11:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"4/n the whole process is reproduced from the arrival in Auschwitz to thirty years later when Helena is summoned as a witness in the trial against Franz. Can she allow herself to denounce the flame of her youth who saved her from certain death in the gas chambers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022638084500971729)  2026-02-14T11:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"5/5 or should she let a war criminal go free A both tragic and moving reminder of guilt forgiveness and not least fatal love. (Franz was eventually acquitted)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022638096194355362)  2026-02-14T11:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Let me introduce Mr Nazi who knows it all. @DakakElisabeth @RudiGeerts The holocaust is a myth. The truth is the Jews declared war on the German people and then destroyed them. The Jews were the evil of ww2 just like they are today. Look up the real genocide called the holadamor @DakakElisabeth @RudiGeerts The holocaust is a myth. The truth is the Jews declared war on the German people and then destroyed them. The Jews were the evil of ww2 just like they are today. Look up the real genocide called the holadamor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022655814415081489)  2026-02-14T12:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mazoe71 @r_glimpses @nazaretanska Historically it should be occupied Poland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022669085054767236)  2026-02-14T13:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Satisfied now @Tebogo427765551 @RudiGeerts In the [----] Lviv pogroms Jews were killed by German Einsatzgruppen (mostly Protestant or Catholic backgrounds) Ukrainian nationalists and militias (primarily Eastern Orthodox or Greek Catholic) and local crowds including Ukrainians and some Poles (Catholic). Driven by Nazi @Tebogo427765551 @RudiGeerts In the [----] Lviv pogroms Jews were killed by German Einsatzgruppen (mostly Protestant or Catholic backgrounds) Ukrainian nationalists and militias (primarily Eastern Orthodox or Greek Catholic) and local crowds including Ukrainians and some Poles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022672987431072216)  2026-02-14T14:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@GL1240 Ill tell you why "Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." Dwight D. Eisenhower Ohrdruf camp 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022679614154277183)  2026-02-14T14:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@anieskam For the zillionth time occupied Poland. The kids in that photo were Ukrainian militia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022694686822125664)  2026-02-14T15:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"2/n Hessy Taft (nee Levinson) was born in Berlin in [----] to Jewish parents Jacob and Polin Levinson who were originally from Latvia. After studying music the two married in [----] and later immigrated to Germany. In [----] Hessy's mother and aunt took six-month-old Hessy to be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022704871854756133)  2026-02-14T16:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"3/n photographed in a professional studio by Hans Ballin a well-known German photographer in Berlin. Seven months later the Levinson family housekeeper told Polin that she saw Hessy's picture on the cover of a popular Nazi family magazine "Sonne ins Haus" (Sunshine in the House)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022704883854643629)  2026-02-14T16:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"4/n The photograph had been selected in a contest from an assortment of a hundred pictures of babies in Germany by ten well-known German photographers. The contest had been arranged by the Nazi propaganda department headed by Joseph Goebbels in which entries for the winning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022704893065064891)  2026-02-14T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"7/n "I wanted to allow myself the pleasure of the joke." Hessy's photo was also later redistributed on postcards throughout Germany and even made it as far as present day Lithuania. When confronted with the question regarding what she would say today to the photographer who"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022704922194555296)  2026-02-14T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"8/n entered her picture in the contest Hessy responded: "I would tell him good for you for having the courage." After fleeing Germany to Paris in [----] the family later escaped France in [----] and fled from the Nazi occupied north to Vichy France and from there through Spain and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022704926963433532)  2026-02-14T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"9/n Portugal before boarding a ship to Cuba. After years in Cuba in [----] the family immigrated to the United States despite being committed Zionists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022704931682074977)  2026-02-14T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"10/10 Photographer and anti-Nazi Hans Ballin later explained: I wanted to make the Nazis look foolish. I wanted to allow myself the pleasure of this jest. And you see I was right. Of all the babies they picked this baby as the perfect Aryan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022704936228720975)  2026-02-14T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DDiserens56238 @DakakElisabeth @KIGavrilov Oh yes Then allow me to share a little story about Switzerland during the war: The Boat is Full 1/n Between [-----] and [-----] Jewish civilian refugees were refused entry to Switzerland. These refugees were refused entry on the asserted claim of dwindling supplies. Of those refused entry a Swiss government representative said "Our little lifeboat is full." https://t.co/0JNhiAP3Ig The Boat is Full 1/n Between [-----] and [-----] Jewish civilian refugees were refused entry to Switzerland. These refugees were refused entry on the asserted claim of dwindling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RudiGeerts/status/2022758761488675205)  2026-02-14T19:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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