In 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. The fighters held out for nearly a month before they were defeated. 13,000 Jews were killed.
Years later in 1968, survivors from the Warsaw Ghetto gathered together at a rally in Tel Aviv.
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In 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. The fighters held out for nearly a month before they were defeated. 13,000 Jews were killed.
Years later in 1968, survivors from the Warsaw Ghetto gathered together at a rally in Tel Aviv.
Eighty years ago, Dutch born Klara Borstel-Engelsman became the oldest known victim of the Holocaust. She was murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz on 12th October 1944.
Klara was 102 years old.
Eighty years ago, Dutch born Klara Borstel-Engelsman became the oldest known victim of the Holocaust. She was murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz on 12th October 1944.
Klara was 102 years old.
10,000 children lived in the Kaunsas Ghetto, half of whom were murdered in October 1941.
For the survivors, schools were banned by the Nazis, with many forced to work. Despite this, secret schools continued to operate โฌ๏ธ I write about one in I AM JUDEN
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My name is Blanka Schwarzkopf. I was born in Prague in September 1936.
When I was 8, Germans deported me to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto. #OTD 9th October 1944, I was led into the gas chamber.
My crime? Being Jewish.
Amidst the bombed ruins of a London bookshop, a boy sits and reads a book named โThe History of London".
#OTD October 8, 1940.
Moshe Ridler was sent to a Nazi concentration camp at age 9, and succeeded in fleeing it at 11.
#OTD October 7, 2023, 91-year-old Moshe Ridler was murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Holit.
Janush Korchak , the head of an orphanage in Warsaw, decided that he would not save his own life and that he would accompany his students to the death camp of Treblinka where they were all were murdered by the Germans and their helpers.
06.10.2025 16:46 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#OTD 4 October 1992, Yad Vashem recognized Destan & Lime Balla as Righteous Among the Nations. The Ballas hid the 3 Lazar brothers for 15 months in their village of Shengjergji, Albania.
04.10.2025 05:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My name is Rudi Renรฉ Hond. I was born in Amsterdam in October 1938.
In August 1942 I was deported to #Auschwitz. We were led into a chamber that filled with gas.
Murdered, for being Jewish.
Please #NeverForget
A 10 year old girl from Hungary liberated from Auschwitz Birkenau by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.
01.10.2025 12:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My name is Gitla Smutek. I was born โก๏ธ in Paris in 1936. I arrived at Auschwitz #OTD 29 September 1942 in a transport of 1,004 Jews deported from Drancy. 698 of us were murdered after selection in the gas chambers.
29.09.2025 08:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Over two days on September 29-30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jews like Vevele below were shot and murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators at Babi Yar, a ravine outside of Kyiv. #otd
30.09.2025 07:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My name is Gitla Smutek. I was born โก๏ธ in Paris in 1936. I arrived at Auschwitz #OTD 29 September 1942 in a transport of 1,004 Jews deported from Drancy. 698 of us were murdered after selection in the gas chambers.
29.09.2025 08:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My name is Ina da Costa da Fonseca. I was born in Amsterdam in 1937. In 1940 Germany invaded by home country. Two years later my family were deported to Auschwitz. I was murdered in a gas chamber. I was 5. I was not the youngest to be killed that day.
Remember us, please.
Unimaginable scenes of joy on September 18th 1944. Eindhoven was one the first major cities liberated from Nazi occupation in operation Market Garden.
24.09.2025 18:34 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Vilnius was once called the Jerusalem of the North. 76 years ago, #OTD September 23, the Vilna Ghetto was liquidated. 95% of the Jewish community was murdered. Resistance leader Abba Kovner survived, and went on to form the original Avengers.
I remember them all in I AM JUDEN.
The Jewish community of Wรผrzburg, Germany was officially liquidated #OTD 22 September 1943
Several days earlier, a wooden crate containing 25 #Torah scrolls was brought to the Jewish cemetery and buried in the ground; a tombstone was placed over the grave.
Andrzej Miลosz, reporter and WW2 resistance member, together with his brother Czesลaw (1980 literature Nobel laureate), helped two Jewish families during the German-perpetrated Holocaust.
Both were named Righteous Among the Nations.
He died #OTD in 2002.
'After Auschwitz, the human condition is no longer the same. After Auschwitz, nothing will ever be the same.' โ Elie Wiesel
20.09.2025 06:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Starving children asking for alms in the Warsaw ghetto, Poland, taken by German soldiers Heinz Joest during a leave in occasion of his birthday #OTD September 19, 1941.
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September 14, 1930: The Nazi Party received 18.3 percent of the votes cast in the Reichstag election. Holding 107 of the Reichstagโs 577 seats, the party now had the ability to change Germany's future
Pictured: pro-Nazi political poster
July 15th 1942: the first transport left the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands for Auschwitz-Birkenau. Two-year-old Suzanne Hochherr and her parents were part of this transport. They were all killed at Auschwitz.
17.09.2025 14:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โI didnโt want the Germans to have the satisfaction of killing me โ of having me dead. So I did everything to stay alive.โ
When WWII broke out, Selma van de Perre joined the Dutch resistance as a spy โ and even continued her acts of resistance when imprisoned in Ravensbrรผck.
#Holocaust survivor, Paula Frahm, describes the deportation which left #OTD 14 September 1942
"The last meal turned out to be surprisingly good... We did not yet realize that this would be the only real food we would see in the years to come"
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#OTD September 13, 1944: Allied forces accidentally bombed Auschwitz, killing 40 prisoners and 15 SS troops, while attempting to bomb a nearby IG Farben factory. #WWII
13.09.2025 07:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0One of the babies that was among the liberated prisoners of Auschwitz.
12.09.2025 07:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0One of the babies that was among the liberated prisoners of Auschwitz.
12.09.2025 07:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0From this bullet scarred crypt window in central Prague, the Czech SOE agents who had assassinated Nazi General Reinhard Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid, fired their last shots. Tracked down and surrounded, they held off several hundred SS until finally overcome. Brave men.
11.09.2025 12:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Another unsung hero of the Holocaust. Born January 28th in 1911 - teacher Johan van Hulst saved 600 Jewish children from certain death.
10.09.2025 07:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0