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OTD in 1921 Sophie Scholl was born. A member of the anti Nazi resistance group, The White Rose, Sophie, along with brother Hans & Christoph Probst, was convicted of high treason in Feb 1943, for distributing anti-war leaflets. They were executed by guillotine. Sophie was 22.

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OTD in 1944, #JehovahsWitness Jonathan Stark was executed by hanging at Sachsenhausen. He was fired from his job due to his faith, & when conscripted for Reich labour service in Oct, 1943, refused to take an oath to Hitler & the state. He was interned, then murdered, aged 18.

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Anne Frank (1929-1945) & her sister Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen in late October 1944 & housed in the ‘Women’s Camp’. They died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen within days of each other in March 1945. #Belsen78

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A British man, Harold Le Druillenec, was liberated at #Belsen . He had survived several camps, inc. Neuengamme, having been informed upon, arrested & imprisoned in 1944 for helping his sister, Louisa Gould. Learn more: RT #Belsen78

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OTD in 1995 Franciszek Gajowniczek died , aged 94. He was a soldier & former prisoner of #Auschwitz (no. 5659). He was saved from starvation death by the sacrifice of Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to take Gajowniczek's place.

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Karl Gorath was just 26 when a "jealous lover" denounced him as a gay man. He spent years in the concentration camp system until he was liberated from Mauthausen, OTD in 1945. Post-war he faced further difficulties. Learn more: via @HolocaustMuseum

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OTD in 1942 Leon Greenman, his wife Else, & toddler Barney, were arrested at their home in Rotterdam in Holland. It marked a turning point or the family, that would eventually led them to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where only Leon would survive. RT @soper_mr @hmccord78 @IOE_London

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In Oct 1942, in occupied Soviet Union, many Jews were killed in the streets, in forests & local rock quarries. At Novogrudok (Belarussia) 50 Jews escaped from the Germans & joined local resistance led by Tuvia Bielski. 1,800 Jews were seized at Radziwillow, Ukraine, 600 escaped.

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Bet. 6-11th April 1945, the Nazis 2,500 ‘exchange Jews’ from Bergen-Belsen were deported towards Theresienstadt concentration camp. One train was liberated by the US Army, near Farsleben. ⬇️📸, taken by a American soldier & discovered in 2001, captures moment of liberation.

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OTD in 2015, #SirNicholasWinton passed away, aged 106. He saved the lives of 699 Jewish children from the Nazi regime. In 2016 he featured in a set of Royal Mail stamps, honouring UK's greatest humanitarians & their achievements. Today we remember his live & legacy.

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Today we share the story of Hans Hauck who was born in 1920 in Frankfurt; the son of a German mother & an Algerian soldier who served in the French army. Aged 17, Hans was arrested by the Nazis because he was a black person of “mixed blood”. 1/2 #BlackHistoryMonth RT @soper_mr

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Thanks to @HolocaustMusuem we know Leon Bass's segregated US army unit arrived at Buchenwald, April 1945. He later said: "I know that I must share this so that the history books really tell the story as it is, so that nobody sugarcoats the history as they did with slavery." #BHM

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In 2016 a British man who saved the lives of 669 mostly Jewish children during the Holocaust feat. in a set of Royal Mail stamps, honouring UK's greatest humanitarians & their achievements. On this #WorldChildrensDay we remember Sir Nicholas Winton. RT

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OTD in 1943, Mordechai Anielewicz' & comrades resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ended. The fighters retreated to Mila 18. End near, he wrote: "My life's dream has come true; I have lived to see Jewish resistance in the ghetto in all its greatness & glory." RT @AR_Pearce

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On this #InternationalDanceDay we remember Jewish ballerina Franciszka Manheimer-Rosenberg, known as Franceska Mann. She arrived at Auschwitz on Oct 23 1943 & multiple interpretations of her defiance & revolt have endured. Learn more: RT @hmccord78

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Today we are proud to begin our marking of the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by British Forces. Over coming days, we will share, survivors & liberators stories, resources, information, combining education & commemoration. 1/3 #Belsen78

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In 2016 a British man who saved the lives of 669 mostly Jewish children during the Holocaust feat. in a set of Royal Mail stamps, honouring UK's greatest humanitarians & their achievements. On this #WorldChildrensDay we remember Sir Nicholas Winton. RT

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OTD we share ⬇️ painting, by #Auschwitz survivor Janina Tollik (1946) "Christmas Eve". Follow @AuschwitzMuseum -an account that keeps the names & lives of those who passed through its gates alive, that preserves the historical record, will inform, challenge & inspire.

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OTD in 1942, Janusz #Korczak walked to Warsaw's #Umschlagplatz & boarded a train with the children of his orphanage. Their destination, #Treblinka . Together with Stefa, about 12 members of his orphanage's staff & around 200 children, they all perished. 1/4

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Despite her own 3yr-old son being torn from her arms & murdered in Auschwitz on her second night in Bergen-Belsen, Luba Tryszynska acted when she heard children crying. Her humanitarian efforts for the children saw her recognised as the “Angel of Belsen” #WorldHumanitarianDay

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As we mark the 90th anniversary of the opening of Dachau, we remember musician Shony Alex Braun, one of c.200,000 prisoners incarcerated in the camp. In an attempt to escape, Shony was shot. He survived the bullet, & was one of the inmates liberated at Dachau in April 1945.

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On #InternationalRomaDay we remember Settela Steinbach, who in 1944 was deported to Auschwitz. ‘The girl with the headscarf’, was identified by Aad Wagenaar as #Sinti , rather than Jewish. The Steinback's were just one #Roma family torn from their traditions & home, & murdered.

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It is the 35th year of #BlackHistoryMonth . Today we share Hans Hauck's story. Born in 1920 in Frankfurt; the son of a German mother & an Algerian soldier who served in the French army. Aged 17, Hans was arrested by the Nazis because he was a black person of “mixed blood”. 1/3 RT

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In 2016 a British man who saved the lives of 669 mostly Jewish children during the Holocaust feat. in set of Royal Mail stamps, honouring UK's greatest humanitarians & their achievements. Ahead of tomorrow's #WorldHumanitarianDay we remember Sir Nicholas Winton. #NoMatterWhat

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Thanks to @HolocaustMuseum we know Leon Bass's segregated US army unit arrived at Buchenwald in April 45'. "I know that I must share this so that the history books really tell the story as it is, so that nobody sugarcoats the history as they did with slavery." #BlackHistoryMonth

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At the end of October 1944 Anne Frank & her sister Margot were transported from @AuschwitzMuseum to @belsenmemorial concentration camp. Teaching about ghettos, camps & other spaces of killing? Read the fourth of our #researchbriefings : RT

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OTD in 1944 Hannah Szenes (Senesh) was executed in Budapest, aged 23. She was a poet & SOE member: one of 37 Jewish SOE recruits from Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British into Yugoslavia to aid anti-Nazi forces & headed to Hungary to assist Jews, but arrested at border.

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In Oct 1942 Warsaw Ghetto leaders asked Jan Karski to tell Polish & Allied govts: 'We are helpless in the face of the German criminals…The Germans are not trying to enslave us as they have other people; we are being systematically murdered...Our entire people will be destroyed.'

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OTD in 1944 Jewish prisoners of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau attacked their SS guards with hammers, stones & axes. With homemade bombs, made from gunpowder smuggled in by women, they barricaded themselves inside & set Crematorium IV on fire. 1/9 RT

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Among our 'Heroic actions of the Holocaust' self-directed study materials, students encounter Irene Sendler; she rescued Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, in so doing taking care to record their names, preserve their #identity & human dignity.

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OTD in 1943 a Jew, posing as a Catholic, Helen Manaster, was called out of the delivery room in the Krakow hospital, while in labour, to face two Gestapo agents. She kept her cool & the agents told her to return to her bed. Learn more: RT

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OTD & 30/09, 1941, the #BabiYar Massacre. 33,771 Jews, inc. Velvele Valentin Krayz from Kiev, were marched to ravine, forced to hand over valuables, remove clothes & gunned down. Today, thanks to @yadvashem archive, we remember Velvele & all those who perished. #BabynYar

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OTD in 1939, a women's concentration camp, Ravensbrück, was opened & c.900 female prisoners arrived from Lichtenburg. The camp prisoner population grew to c.10,000 in 1942. By Jan 1945, there were 50,000+ prisoners, originating from 30+ countries. RT 1/3

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OTD in 1926, a German Jewish girl Margot Frank, was born in Frankfurt. She & her family went into hiding in Amsterdam. Learn more about Margot, her short life & ambitions here: Having survived Auschwitz, Margot & her sister, Anna, perished at Belsen. RT

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On 13 June, 4.15pm we host a new CPD opportunity, 'I wonder where I will be tomorrow'. Join us to explore the world Miriam Erlichmann was born into: the diversity of European Jewish communities & what it meant to seek asylum in Britain, 1940. Sign up: RT

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Among our 'Heroic actions of the Holocaust' self-directed study materials, students encounter Irene Sendler; she rescued Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, in so doing taking care to record their names, preserve their #identity & human dignity. #IWD

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OTD in 1942 deportation of Dutch Jews from Amsterdam began. Amsterdam was home to more than half (75,000 in 1940) of all Dutch Jews. 3/4 of Dutch Jews were murdered during the Holocaust Learn more: or RT

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Despite her own 3yr-old son being torn from her arms & murdered in Auschwitz on her second night in Bergen-Belsen, Luba Tryszynska acted when she heard children crying. Her humanitarian efforts for the children saw her recognised as the “Angel of Belsen” #WorldHumanitarianDay

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OTD in 1943 Vivienne Stolzer marked her birthday in #Jasenovac , with her parents. She received a gift from a friend & fellow prisoner: an engraved wooden box. The Stolzer family were murdered: but in @yadvashem 's collection, the box reminds us of life-that once Vivienne lived.

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In June 1944, having infiltrated Nazi occupied Hungary, Hannah Senesh (Szenes), poet & one of 32 Jewish volunteer parachutists from Palestine that the British Army sent behind German lines for resistance & rescue efforts, was arrested. Following torture she was executed, aged 23.

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OTD in 1942 Margot Frank received a call-up notice from the Nazis to return to Germany to work in a labour camp. The next day, the Frank family go into hiding in the Secret Annex above Otto's offices. They are joined by the Van Pels family one week later.

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Frumka Płotnicka was a leading member of the ZOB (the Jewish Fighting Organization), who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising & also a member of the Labour Zionist organisation Dror. She died OTD in 1943 in one of the Będzin bunkers, whilst fighting the Germans.

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13yr old Eva Heymann started writing a diary in her Hungary home. Two months later she & family were forced into a ghetto, & on 29 May 1944 they were told they would be 'resettled in the east'. She made her last diary entry the next day ⬇️ #WCD2022

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On this #WorldVoiceDay we remember Rudolf Vrba & Alfred Wetzler - who used their voices upon their escape from Auschwitz, to provide witness to The Allies, of the Nazis crimes. Learn more via our CPD session.

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Afro-Germans had been racially discriminated before 1933, but when the Nazis’ gained power it turned to persecution. Born in Frankfurt 1920, the son of a German mother & an Algerian soldier, in 1937 Hans Hauck was arrested by because he was a black person of “mixed blood”. RT

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OTD in 1942: At 10pm #LeonGreenman & his family were taken out of their home & brought to outskirts of Rotterdam, & from there taken to #Westerbork camp. It marked a turning point for the family: that would eventually lead them to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only Leon would survive.

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In 2016 a British man who saved the lives of 669 mostly Jewish children during the Holocaust feat. in set of Royal Mail stamps, honouring UK's greatest humanitarians & their achievements. Ahead of tomorrows #WorldHumanitarianDay we remember Sir Nicholas Winton. #Ittakesavillage

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At Berlin's 1936 Olympics, Jesse Owen's secured 4 golds, inc. 100m victory. Whilst credited with “single-handedly crushing Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy”, the irony of victory in racist Germany was not lost on black athletes returning to US segregation & discrimination. #BHM

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OTD in 1943 Margot Betti Frank, elder daughter of Otto & Edith, & sister of Anne, received a deportation order to return to Germany & work in a labour camp. It hastened family into hiding. Learn more about Margot, her short life & ambitions here: RT

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This 📸 taken by the U.S. Signal Corps, & held in @yadvashem collections, shows an American military surgeon assisting a survivor from Budapest in the Penig Concentration Camp in Germany, April 1945. Learn more about the image & the text in its reverse:

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From 4 Aug 1942 to 1945, c.24,000 Belgium Jews were deported to Auschwitz. But there was support in Belgium for #resistance to occupation: civilian administrations refused to cooperate, others hid Jews, like these 6 girls hidden in convent nr Hasselt. 📸 @HolocaustMuseum

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In 2016 a British man who saved lives of 669 mostly Jewish children during the Holocaust feat. in a set of Royal Mail stamps, honouring UK's greatest humanitarians & their achievements. On UN #InternationalYouthDay we remember Sir Nicholas Winton. RT @barbara_winton @UNICEF_uk

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OTD in 1942, male Jews in Norway were arrested & sent by sea to Szczecin, occupied Poland, then by rail to Auschwitz. Use Unit 1 of our textbook to learn about pre war Jewish lives in Norway, with the example Julius Paltiel. (1 of 6 Norwegian Jews who returned from Auschwitz).

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OTD in 1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul #Wallenberg arrived in #Budapest on mission to aid #Hungarian Jews. He is said to have saved c100,000 Jews, issuing at least 50,000 special Swedish papers, providing diplomatic shield against deportation & setting up a food programs. RT

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This June we continue to mark #PrideMonth . Thanks to @HolocaustMuseum we are able to share Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim's story. In 1937 he was among 230 men in Lübeck arrested by SS under Nazi-revised criminal code, Paragraph 175. RT 1/4

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OTD in 1921 Sophie Scholl was born. A member of the anti Nazi resistance group, The White Rose, Sophie, along with brother Hans & Christoph Probst, was convicted of high treason in Feb 1943, for distributing anti-war leaflets. They were executed by guillotine. Sophie was 22.

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Frumka Płotnicka was a leading member of the ZOB (the Jewish Fighting Organization), who fought in the #WarsawGhettoUprising & also a member of the Labour Zionist organisation Dror. She died Aug 3, 1943 in one of the Będzin bunkers, whilst fighting the Germans.

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In July 1937 Buchenwald concentration camp was opened. Learn more: 📸 @HolocaustMuseum When the US Army liberated Buchenwald & its subcamps in April 1945, Eisenhower, wrote: "Nothing has ever shocked me as much as that sight."

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In desperation, Jewish parents sent their unaccompanied children abroad to escape Nazi persecution. OTD in 1938 the first #Kindertransport arrives in Great Britain. Most of these children would never again see their parents, who were murdered during the Holocaust.

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From 4 Aug 1942 to 1945, c.24,000 Belgium Jews were deported to Auschwitz. But there was support in Belgium for #resistance to occupation: civilian administrations refused to cooperate, others hid Jews, like these 6 girls hidden in convent nr Hasselt. 📸 @HolocaustMuseum

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This #BlackHistoryMonth , learn more about 'Lari' Gilges. Lari was a dancer by profession murdered by the SS in 1933. His wife later received restitution from a post-war German government for his murder by the Nazis. Find out more via @HolocaustMusuem

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OTD in 1940, Barnett (Barney) Greenman was born in Rotterdam. Were he not murdered, had he survived the Holocaust, he might now be in his 80s - what could he have achieved, what might he have been like? Today we remember Barney. Learn more via: RT

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At Berlin's 1936 Olympics, Jesse Owen's secured 4 golds, inc. 100m victory. Whilst credited with “single-handedly crushing Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy”, the irony of victory in racist Germany was not lost on black athletes returning to US segregation & discrimination. #BHM

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OTD in 1943 a Jewish partisan unit commanded by Abba Kovner destroyed two rail engines & two bridges near Vilna, Lithuania. Learn more about Kovner, his #resistance , life & legacy: RT #partisan #leadership

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OTD in 1942 Anne Frank & family went into hiding in a “Secret Annexe”: a decision hastened by sister Margot's deportation order. In effort to avoid detection the Frank's left a false trail suggesting they'd fled to Switzerland. During this isolation, Anne wrote her diary.

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OTD in 1942 405 Jews held in Buchenwald & Sachsenhausen camps were deported to Auschwitz. Among the deportees was Austrian-Jewish opera librettist, lyricist & writer, Fritz Löhner-Beda (beaten to death, 4 Dec 1942) Learn more: or

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OTD in 1944 Anne Frank & the former occupants of the 'secret annex' in Amsterdam were transported, on a train from Westerbork camp, 'East' to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Learn more by exploring @annefrankhouse RT

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On #WorldChildrensDay we remember Anne and Margot Frank. @ioe_london @soper_mr @hmccord78 @AnneFrankTrust @annefrankhouse @BASSETTENGLISH #WCD2022

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OTD in 1943 Sophie Scholl was arrested by the Gestapo for distributing an anti Nazi leaflet at Munich University, & mug shots were taken. Learn more about Sophie, brother Hans & those involved in the White Rose Opposition Movement: RT @IOE_London @soper_mr

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13yr old Eva Heymann started writing a diary in her Hungary home. Two months later she & family were forced into a ghetto, & on 29 May 1944 they were told they would be 'resettled in the east'. She made her last diary entry the next day ⬇️ #IDG2022 . RT @hmccord78

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OTD in 1942, acclaimed novelist Irène Némirovsky was arrested in France as a 'stateless person of Jewish descent'. She was plagued by antisemitism, in Ukraine & France. Despite baptism she was persecuted by the Nazis because of her origins-she died in Auschwitz, Aug 17, aged 39.

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#OTD in 1943 Aleksander Pechersky led an organized Jewish #resistance : under his leadership, 300 prisoners fought their captors & escaped from the #Sobib ór death camp. Only 50 survived until liberation. Learn more about Pechersky via @yadvashem . RT

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June is Gypsy, #Roma & Traveller History Month. Learn more about the Roma/ #Sinti experience in our new KS3 textbook 'Understanding the Holocaust: How & why did it happen?' feat. story of Karl Stojka. Or visit @HolocaustMuseum RT #GRTHM2023

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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the murder of German students Sophie & Hans Scholl & Christoph Probst. OTD in 1943 they were executed by guillotine, found guilty of high treason for distributing leaflets & being part of Munich's White Rose resistance: .

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Afro-Germans had been racially discriminated before 1933, but when the Nazis’ gained power it turned to persecution. Born in Frankfurt 1920, son of a German mother & an Algerian soldier, in 1937 Hans Hauck was arrested because he was a black person of “mixed blood”. RT #BHM2022

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Today we share the story of Hans Hauck who was born in 1920 in Frankfurt; the son of a German mother & an Algerian soldier who served in the French army. Aged 17, Hans was arrested by the Nazis because he was a black person of “mixed blood”. RT 1/3 #BlackHistoryMonth

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In May 1943 Szmul Zygielbojm committed suicide in London, in protest at Allied inaction regards fate of Europe's Jews. His note said ‘the responsibility for this crime.. falls indirectly on the whole human race.’ His death was widely reported: its motive received little notice.

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OTD in 1939, Frank ordered introduction of a star badge for Polish Jews. Such #classification & #symbolisation is a key indicator of #genocide . These stages enable the identification & targeting of discriminated people or future victims easier for perpetrators. RT

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This month, inc. Int'l #MigrantsDay , we remember the #Kindertransport which resulted in c.10,000 unaccompanied Jewish children admitted to Britain on an emergency basis. Use our textbook to help YP explore UK efforts to welcome some Jewish refugees who fled before the war. 1/3

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A woman inmate of Belsen concentration camp kisses the hand of Army Film & Photographic Unit cameraman Lieutenant Martyn Wilson on liberation. #Belsen78 #RememberingBelsen

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OTD in 1945, 3 weeks prior to the liberation of Auschwitz, Ester Wajcblum, Ella Gärtner, Regina Safirsztain & Rosa Robota were tortured & publicly hanged in the camp for their involvement in damage to Crematorium IV during the Sonderkommando Revolt.

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On 13 June, 4.15pm we host a new CPD opportunity, 'I wonder where I will be tomorrow'. Join us to explore the world Miriam Erlichmann was born into: the diversity of European Jewish communities & what it meant to seek asylum in Britain, 1940. Sign up: RT

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On 13 June, 4.15pm we host a new CPD opportunity, 'I wonder where I will be tomorrow'. Join us to explore the world Miriam Erlichmann was born into: the diversity of European Jewish communities & what it meant to seek asylum in Britain, 1940. Sign up: RT

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On this #IWD2023 we remember Selma Zwienicki. In the town of Bremen, on night of 9 Nov 1938 Nazi Stormtroopers broke into Selma's home. They demanded to know where they could find her husband. When she refused to tell them, the Nazis shot her dead. RT @RushtonDr @GECCollect

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The Germans forbade religious services in most ghettos/camps, so many Jews prayed & held ceremonies in secret. Thanks to ⬇️ @yadvashem archive📸, we know, in 1943, on 7th night, a #Chanukah candle lighting ceremony took in the #Westerbork . Learn more: RT

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On 13 June, 4.15pm we host a new CPD opportunity, 'I wonder where I will be tomorrow'. Join us to explore the world Miriam Erlichmann was born into: the diversity of European Jewish communities & what it meant to seek asylum in Britain, 1940. Sign up: RT

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At the end of October 1944 Anne Frank & her sister Margot were transported from @AuschwitzMuseum to @belsenmemorial concentration camp. Teaching about ghettos, camps & other spaces of killing? Read the fourth of our #researchbriefings : RT

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Today is #NationalPetDay . In April 1936, Jews were barred from being vets. Today we remember how Jewish professional & economic rights were rescinded by the Nazis - but also, pause to consider what happened to Jewish owned pets in the Holocaust? 📸 @HolocaustMuseum @yadvashem

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It is vital YP have a chance to explore the diversity of Jewish life across Europe before the Holocaust. Join us tomorrow, 23 May, for 'Who were the 6 million? Exploring Jewish life before the Holocaust', one of our Core online CPD sessions. Book: RT

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On 13 June, 4.15pm we host a new CPD opportunity, 'I wonder where I will be tomorrow'. Join us to explore the world Miriam Erlichmann was born into: the diversity of European Jewish communities & what it meant to seek asylum in Britain, 1940. Sign up: RT

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On this #InternationalMensDay we're sharing stories of 17 men whose lives were impacted by the Holocaust or Nazi persecution. We remember their lives & legacy. We begin with Raphael Lemkin who coined the term #genocide & fought tirelessly for crimes recognition & prevention. RT

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When Minsk was occupied in 1941, c.80,000 Jews lived there. A ghetto was established, but by 42', most of its Jews had been murdered. Camp & ghetto Jews, as ⬇️📸from Minsk (Jan 43) were forced into labour to support Germany's war economy. Many died as a result of their treatment.

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This #nationalpoetryday we are thinking about the poet Lotte Kramer, who was born in Mainz in 1923 but who came to England in 1939 with the #Kindertransport & lived in England ever since. She lost 12 family members in the Holocaust, including her parents. RT 1/5 @NATEfeed

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OTD in 1942 Anne Frank & family went into hiding in a “Secret Annexe”: a decision hastened by sister Margot's deportation order. In effort to avoid detection the Frank's left a false trail suggesting they'd fled to Switzerland. During this isolation, Anne wrote her diary.

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OTD in 1944, 700 Plaszow camp deportees were sent from Gross-Rosen to Bruennlitz. Oskar Schindler, owner of munition factory, persuaded SS to give him the Jewish workers & arranged for 300 women to be transferred from Auschwitz to his factory. Learn more:

Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler's actions to protect Jews during the Holocaust saved over 1,000 Jews from deportation. Learn more about Schindler's List.

encyclopedia.ushmm.org

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Afro-Germans had been racially discriminated before 1933, but when the Nazis’ gained power it turned to persecution. Born in Frankfurt 1920, the son of a German mother & an Algerian soldier, in 1937 Hans Hauck was arrested by because he was a black person of “mixed blood”. RT

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1 year

On 13 June, 4.15pm we host a new CPD opportunity, 'I wonder where I will be tomorrow'. Join us to explore the world Miriam Erlichmann was born into: the diversity of European Jewish communities & what it meant to seek asylum in Britain, 1940. Sign up: RT

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OTD in 1944, German forces occupied Hungary. Help YP explore the fate & experience of Hungarian Jews, like 13yrs old Eva Heymann, whose family were forced into a ghetto, & later told they would be 'resettled in the east' using our textbook. Eva made a last diary entry 30/05/44.

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After 5yrs in Esterwegen & other concentration camps, for criticism of German militarism & Nazism, OTD in 1938, Carl von Ossietzy, a pacifist, German journalist, died, aged 50. He was the winner of 1935 Nobel Peace Prize, but was forbidden from travelling to accept it.

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OTD in 1941 Heydrich established Theresienstadt as a "model camp". For 3 & a half years, Terezin served as a transit & ghetto labour camp. It was was cynically described in Nazi propaganda as a "spa town" where elderly German Jews could "retire" in safety. 1/2

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