Join us online on 25th February at 7pm for our joint event: Lessons Across Generations: War Crimes from World War 2 to Ukraine
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Registered Holocaust Charity providing speakers from the 2nd & 3rd generation who present their family stories to different communities around the world. Free of charge, in-person or online. Book a speaker today: https://www.generation2generation.org.uk/
Join us online on 25th February at 7pm for our joint event: Lessons Across Generations: War Crimes from World War 2 to Ukraine
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Join us on Monday 16th March at 7:30
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Join us online on 25th February at 7pm for our joint event: Lessons Across Generations: War Crimes from World War 2 to Ukraine
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Join us on Monday 16th March at 7:30
www.generation2generation.org.uk?p=12489
Members of the G2G were recently featured in SecEd digital magazine discussing the role of Holocaust encounters in the classroom. Read below:
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06.06.2025 19:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0On the night before the amphibious landings, more than 23,000 US, British, & Canadian paratroopers landed in France behind the German lines by parachute and glider. Some 195,000 naval personnel and merchant mariners, 7,000 vessels, & more than 11,500 aircraft supported the initial invasion.
06.06.2025 19:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0During the operation, 133,000 Allied ground troops landed on five beaches stretched over roughly 50 miles of Normandyβs coastline. The beaches were code named (west to east): Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, & Sword. US troops took Utah and Omaha, while British and Canadian units Gold, Juno, and Sword.
06.06.2025 19:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0These troops were augmented by men from many other countries, including: France, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, Australia, & New Zealand.
06.06.2025 19:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0On June 6, 1944, Allied troops launched a military operation code named Operation Overlord. On that day, US, British, and Canadian troops crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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Thousands were also sent to the border with Austria to be deployed at digging fortification trenches. By the end of July 1944, the only Jewish community left in Hungary was that of Budapest.
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From May 15 to July 9, 1944, Hungarian gendarmerie officials, under the guidance of German SS officials, deported around 440,000 Jews from Hungary. Most were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where, upon arrival and after selection, SS functionaries killed the majority of them in gas chambers.
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14.05.2025 19:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Over half did so, mostly Polish and Czech. They were arrested & deported to a transit camp in France. Most of them were held for a year before being deported to Auschwitz.
14.05.2025 19:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The 'green ticket roundup' was a mass arrest started a day after police delivered a green card to 6,694 foreign Jews living in Paris, telling them to report for a "status check".
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Today, we remember VE Day β May 8, 1945. A day that marked the end of WWII and the beginning of peace.
We honour the courage of those who served and the lives lost in the fight for freedom.
#VEDay #NeverForget #Remembrance #wwii #onthisday
An American-Japanese battalion liberated a group of over 5,000 prisoners who had been led on a death march from the infamous Dachau concentration camp. The unit also helped liberate Dachau's sub-camps in the following weeks.
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02.05.2025 17:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Before the war, the Hungarian Jewish population was around 825,000. In just 8 weeks following the first transports to Auschwitz, some 424,000 had been deported to camps. By the end of the war, 565,000 Hungarian Jewish people had been murdered, over half of Hungary's entire Jewish population.
02.05.2025 17:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0#history #remember #worldwar2 #testimony #neverforget #otd #onthisday #generation2generation
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