Andre Kuerten

#fckafd

[Andre Kuerten @AndreKuerten]

Ich bin für mehr Iron Maiden. Maiden ist geil. Maiden geht immer.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

The first wave is closing on Omaha Beach. This is why, as a Brit, I tell my American son always to hold his head high. Most of the men in this photo will be killed or wounded in the next couple of hours. My freedom is not free. See more on Substack: https://t.co/EEg00P06y6

[Tomasz @TomFromKatowice]

My name is Leontyna Wencel 🇵🇱
from Radomsko, born on June 1️⃣, 1886.
I was murdered by #Germans in their death camp #Auschwitz on Feb. 27, 1943 at the age of 5️⃣6️⃣ only because
I was a #Pole.
I survived 3️⃣6️⃣ days.
Please, #NeverForget me!
#Genocide
#WWII
#NeverAgain
#WarCrimes

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

31 May 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Marianne Nunes Vas, was born in Amsterdam.

In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is Aron Löwi, a 62-year-old Polish Jewish merchant from the small town of Zator. A husband, a neighbor, a man with a name, a family, and a life of his own.

On March 5, 1942, that life was brutally stripped away.

Upon arriving at Auschwitz, Aron was no longer seen as a human being. He became prisoner number 26406.

The haunting mugshots taken that day show a man already bruised, starved, and hollow-eyed, clear evidence of abuse even before he entered the camp. On his striped uniform were the badges of Nazi classification: a yellow star marking him as Jewish, and a red triangle labeling him a political prisoner.

Aron Löwi survived just five days in Auschwitz. He arrived on March 5 and was dead by March 10, 1942. His cause of death was never officially recorded, just one of millions dismissed as “unfit for labor.”

In five short days, the Nazis tried to erase a lifetime.

But they failed.

His face, his photograph, and his prisoner number remain. Every time we speak his name, we push back against the oblivion they sought to impose.

To remember even one is to resist forgetting them all.

[Andre Kuerten @AndreKuerten]

@is_it_memorex Rudelbumsen oder?

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Remember the European Hospital in Khan Younis last May?

Israel struck a targeted site there, and the world lost its mind.

Palestinians denied any tunnel existed underneath. The UN and European governments rushed to condemn Israel for attacking a “hospital.” Outrage, headlines, accusations of war crimes… the usual script.

Then June came.

The IDF took international media into the very same location and showed them the tunnel… a full Hamas command center, right under the emergency room.

Weapons, rooms, infrastructure. And yes, that’s where they found and confirmed the body of Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s top military commander and brother of Yahya Sinwar.

The strike that killed one of the architects of October 7 was surgically precise, and entirely justified.

Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, hospitals and other medical facilities lose their protected status when they are used for military purposes, such as command centers, weapon storage, or troop movements. By deliberately turning the European Hospital into a Hamas base, the terrorists themselves stripped it of any legal protection.

Not a single apology from the UN or the European governments that rushed to condemn Israel. Not one admission they were wrong. They simply moved on to the next round of accusations.

This is the pattern. Hamas hides its terror infrastructure under civilian sites, uses hospitals as shields, and the international community reliably attacks the defender for responding, only to be proven wrong again and again and again when the evidence emerges.

How many times does this have to happen before the world stops falling for it?

[Shukri Hamk 🇦🇺 @Yazidisto]

“I was raped every single day for six full months.”
-Ekhlas.
A Yazidi girl who was only 14 years old.
Kidnapped by ISIS in 2014, chosen by lottery from 150 girls, and turned into a sex slave.
One human monster made her his daily toy.
This is not one girl’s story.
This is the systematic barbarity the Islamic State inflicted on thousands of Yazidi daughters.
The world must remember.
And the world must hold them accountable.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

THE PEOPLE OF GAZA MURDERED HER UNDER AN AMBULANCE AT A MUSIC FESTIVAL

"Bar Tomer from Kibbutz Ein Shemer traveled to the Nova Festival with her friends to dance and celebrate.

On the morning of October 7, as Hamas began its attack, Bar managed to call her worried parents and tell them that she and her friends were under heavy fire and running from place to place.

For many long hours, Bar remained calm, sending reassuring messages and telling her family that she loved them, until all contact with her was lost.

Bar was believed to be missing for an entire week, filled with worry and uncertainty, until the most devastating news arrived: Bar had lost her life during the terrorist attack. Her body was found later beneath an ambulance that had been struck by gunfire in the Re’im parking area.

Bar was 25 years old, a fourth-generation descendant of the founders of Kibbutz Ein Shemer. She was an outstanding student of psychology and management at Bar-Ilan University and lived in Tel Aviv. A spiritual and sensitive young woman, she immersed herself in the study of NLP, yoga, and Eastern philosophies, filling her notebooks with inspirational reflections on inner peace and love for others. She combined a radiant smile and a unique energy that touched everyone she met with exceptional determination, working at a hotel in Neve Tzedek while pursuing her demanding studies.

A bright and gentle soul whose life was cut tragically short."

May her memory be a blessing. 💔

[Tomasz @TomFromKatowice]

Ania Rempa🇵🇱, dziewczynka z Zamojszczyzny zwolniona z niemieckiego obozu zagłady Majdanek w sierpniu 1943 na skutek starań Rady Głównej Opiekuńczej.
Dziewczynka zmarła wkrótce w szpitalu.
Zdjęcie ze zbiorów @MajdanekMuseum
#NeverForget
#Genocide #Children
#WWII
#DzieńDziecka

[Schlafsheep 📯🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻 @Schlafsheep]

Sarah Bosetti @sarahbosetti macht etwas völlig Verrücktes:
Sie sagt, dass die Abschaffung der Schulpflicht eine schlechte Idee ist.
Daraufhin erklären ihr Menschen, sie gehöre ins Gas, solle verbrannt werden und sei Teil eines linksgrünen Terrorregimes.
Ich weiß nicht, wie es euch geht, aber wenn die Gegenseite ihre Argumentation mit Hexenverbrennung und Vernichtungsfantasien verteidigen muss, wirkt das auf mich nicht wie ein Sieg in der Debatte.
Manchmal gewinnt man eine Diskussion nicht durch gute Argumente.
Man gewinnt sie, weil die Kommentarspalte den Beweis gleich selbst mitliefert. 🐑
Quelle: https://t.co/0Nsvu6I9YR

[Coolnasenbaer 👊😁👍 @Coolnasenbaer]

Niemals vergessen! Am 1. Juni 2019 wurde Walter #Lübcke gegen 23:30 Uhr von einem AfD-Anhänger auf der Terrasse seines Wohnhauses mit einem Kopfschuss ermordet. Dem vorausgegangen waren Feindmarkierungen, Doxing und Bedrohungen in den sozialen Medien.

[John Cocker 🇺🇦 @joecocker15]

On this day in 1904, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 10 Jun 1942 she was deported to Ujazdow labour camp with her husband and son 913). They all perished in the Shoah. Her name was Hilda Kolarová

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

1 June 1931 | Dutch Jewish girl Leontine Juliette Susan was born in Amsterdam.

In November 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

“She looked at her students wearing yellow stars—and handed them aprons to cover the shame. Then she spent the war rewriting their names, hiding them in attics, and burying their real identities in jars. One teacher. One thousand children. And a question that still echoes: ‘How could I not fight for them?’”

In 1942 Brussels, a young schoolteacher named Andrée Geulen walked into her classroom and stopped cold. Some of her students wore yellow stars sewn onto their coats—Nazi badges meant to single out Jewish children for persecution. Heartbroken but quick‑thinking, she ordered every student to put on aprons, instantly erasing the cruel labels. That simple act of defiance was not just a protest; it was the beginning of one of the most daring rescue missions of the Holocaust. By day, Andrée taught at the Gaty de Gamont School, where 12 Jewish children hid in plain sight. By night, she worked with the underground Jewish Defense Committee, smuggling children to safety. Her most agonizing task? Convincing terrified parents to surrender their kids to strangers, knowing that separation might mean survival—but staying meant certain death.

With steely calm, Andrée whisked children away—sometimes during air raids—to Christian farms, convents, and attics. She gave them haircuts, new names, and forged papers. She dyed their hair, taught them Catholic prayers, and transformed them into different people overnight. Every child she saved was a wound in the Nazi system. But she knew that if the war ever ended, these children would need to remember who they really were. So she kept a secret ledger, coding each child’s real name and true identity. When the Gestapo searched her school, she buried the list in a jar. She risked her life every single night, not for glory, but for the quiet hope that one day, those children would find their way back to themselves.

Then came the night of May 1943. Nazi soldiers stormed the school, dragging children from their beds to check their papers. Twelve Jewish students were arrested and taken away. A soldier sneered at Andrée: “Aren’t you ashamed to teach Jews?” Her reply sliced through the darkness: “Aren’t YOU ashamed to wage war on children?” She was arrested but released—her non‑Jewish identity protected her. Instead of retreating, she went deeper underground, saving hundreds more. She never carried a gun. Her weapons were chalk, compassion, and the unwavering belief that every child deserved a future. By the end of the war, she had saved approximately 1,000 Jewish children—including some she never saw again, but whose names she carried in her heart.

After the war, Andrée dug up her hidden ledgers and tried to reunite families. Most of the parents had been murdered. But the children survived. They grew up to become doctors, teachers, parents, and grandparents. Many never knew the full scope of what she had done until decades later, when they began to piece together their own histories. Andrée never sought recognition. She returned to teaching, married a resistance fighter, and lived quietly. In 1989, Yad Vashem named her Righteous Among the Nations. When asked why she risked everything, she simply said: “They were my students. How could I not fight for them?”

Andrée Geulen-Herscovici died in 2022 at 100 years old, but her legacy is not a museum piece—it is a living challenge. In a world where fear and hatred still try to divide us, her story asks: What would you do if someone tried to erase the children in your classroom? She didn’t have an army or a fortune. She had chalk, courage, and a refusal to look away. As she once told a group of survivors: “Hatred demands obedience; love inspires rebellion. The question is not whether you can save everyone. The question is whether you can refuse to let them be forgotten.” Share this if you believe that one ordinary teacher can become an extraordinary shield.

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#drthehistories

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

This is how the British welcomed Holocaust survivors who came to their ancestral homeland of Israel during the British mandate: Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were often shot dead before they even got off the boat.

The British did it because Palestinians declared war on Jews coming back home.

Photo: Palmach archievs

[Stephen Uzzell @StephenUzzell2]

#OTD 1st June 1962, Adolf Eichmann, Gestapo-SS organiser of the Holocaust, was hanged for war crimes.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On December 13, 1945, the “Beautiful Beast” and “Hyena of Auschwitz” — Irma Grese, one of the most sadistic female guards in the entire Nazi death camp system — was hanged at just 22 years old.

This blond, blue-eyed farm girl volunteered for the SS, rose rapidly through the ranks, and by age 20 commanded 30,000 women prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau as Oberaufseherin.

She patrolled the camp in tailored uniforms and stolen perfume, heavy jackboots on her feet, braided whip and pistol always ready.

Her sadism knew no bounds. She beat women to death with her whip, deliberately targeting breasts and faces. She shot prisoners in cold blood during selections. She unleashed half-starved dogs on inmates for sport. She singled out the prettiest Jewish girls for the gas chambers out of jealous rage.

But the torture she loved most was “medical.”

Watch the short clip below showing how Grese excitedly oversaw the agonizing procedures.

Survivors testified that Grese would slash women’s breasts with her whip, then force inmate doctors to operate on the deliberately infected wounds with no anesthesia whatsoever.

She stood there, thrilled by every scream of pain — and if the cries annoyed her or interrupted her twisted enjoyment, she kicked the victims hard with her jackboots until they fell silent or passed out.

Dr. Gisella Perl, a Jewish inmate physician, captured the horror perfectly: “She was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen ... And yet Irma Grese was the most depraved, cruel, imaginative pervert I ever came across.”

Grese turned human suffering into her personal entertainment. Convicted at the Belsen Trial with overwhelming survivor testimony, she showed zero remorse. Moments before the trapdoor dropped she calmly said “Schnell” — “Quickly.”

Pure evil in a pretty package. A monster by choice.

[John Cocker 🇺🇦 @joecocker15]

On this day in 1921, a German Jewish woman was born. Living in Czechoslovakia, on the 30 Jan 1942 she was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto and on the 8 Sep 1942 to Malý Trostinec (a Nazi German extermination site) where she perished. Her name was Lieselotte Willdorf

[Majdanek Memorial @MajdanekMuseum]

02.06.1942|The first transport of Jews was sent from the ghetto in Kraków to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. Approximately 2,000 deportees were immediately murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival at the camp. #Holocaust

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

2 June 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Ágnes Gruenberger, was born.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.