Oskar Einsberg

Berlin / Painter / Digital Art

[Oskar Einsberg @EINSBERGBLOG]

Oskar Einsberg

"working woman"

- single edition -
- the "very last bill" collection (2023)

#contemporaryart #painting no.#nft👎#digitalart no.#nfts🫢#wallstreetbets

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11 June 1938 | French Jewish boy, Jacques Aizik Yamniak, was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

He was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 7 March 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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▶ Ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://t.co/LQFeX1T7Bj

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13 June 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Naomi Plattner, was born.

In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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Children at Auschwitz
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🎧 Podcast: https://t.co/XfLNMGnx4H

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12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.

In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)

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27 May 1942 | 168 prisoners were executed by shooting at the execution wall in the courtyard of Block 11 in Auschwitz I.

They belonged to a group of Poles who were arrested by Germans on 16 April 1942 in the Artists' Cafe in Krakow and deported to Auschwitz on 24 and 25 April.

Present at the execution were the head of the Political Department Maximilian Grabner, Protective Custody Commander Hans Aumeier and the head of the Labor Deployment Department Heinrich Schwarz.
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▶ Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: https://t.co/Nf2ozhXD6f

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27 May 1927 | A Greek Jewish girl, Dolly Florentin, was born in Thessaloniki.

In 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

She gave her three-year-old daughter a sedative, wrapped her in a blanket, and placed her in a large leather suitcase. With her heart pounding, she waited in line to leave the Nazi ghetto, watched closely by armed guards. If the little girl made a sound, or if a guard decided to open the heavy bag, they would both be executed on the spot.

When she finally made it outside the gates and her child was safe, she did something completely unthinkable. She went back inside.

And then she saved another child. And another. She did this dozens of times, risking her life with every single step she took.

For most of her life, that little girl, Henia Lewin, believed her mother, Gita Wisgardisky, had performed a single, desperate miracle just for her. It was not until her mother’s funeral many years later that the shattering truth finally emerged.

An elderly survivor approached Henia at the cemetery, looked into her eyes, and revealed a secret kept for decades.

"Your mother saved so many," the survivor told her. "No one knows how many. Maybe she didn’t even know herself. She didn’t count them."

Gita had smuggled countless children out of the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, hidden deep inside suitcases or carried through secret passages, right under the noses of the oppressors.

Henia was born in 1940 into a normal, loving Jewish family. That normalcy completely vanished when the Nazis invaded and forced the Jewish population into a cramped, disease-ridden ghetto. Hunger and sudden deportations became the daily reality.

Gita saw through the lies early on. While some people hoped for the best, she understood the dark truth. She knew that when the Nazis spoke of relocating children, they actually meant killing them. Gita refused to wait for the end.

Working secretly with a brave Lithuanian Catholic priest, she found kind families willing to hide Jewish children in the countryside. But getting the children out of the heavily guarded gates was a suicide mission.

The children had to be perfectly still and silent. This was why Gita used sedatives. She put her own daughter into a deep, heavy sleep, placed her in that suitcase, and walked toward the guards.

When a soldier stopped her, Gita did not panic. She calmly offered her watch and her best pair of leather boots as a bribe. The guard took them, looked away, and she passed through the gates.

Little Henia was taken in by a Christian family. She was taught to call strangers mom and dad, and she learned to never mention her real name. Though she was only three, she understood the danger and kept the secret for two long years.

Meanwhile, Gita went right back into the nightmare. She returned to the ghetto to find more children. Each trip involved a new suitcase, more sedatives, and a fresh set of bribes. She never asked for recognition. She simply acted.

Miraculously, Gita, her husband Jonas, and Henia all survived the war. They eventually moved to the United States, where Henia grew up to become a school teacher and a passionate voice for Holocaust education.

Today, Henia shares this story because memory is a torch that must be passed from hand to hand. It reminds us that even in the darkest corners of human history, love can conquer the greatest fears.

Gita went to her grave without ever boasting about her heroism, but her legacy lives on in the generations of children who got to grow up, laugh, and have families of their own because one mother refused to leave anyone behind.

Some stories are not meant to be closed—they are meant to be carried forward.

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16 May 1936 | French Jewish girl, Lina Mendelsohn, was born in Paris.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 17 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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16 May 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Cecilia Prins, was born in Middelburg.

In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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8 May 1932 | A German Jewish boy, Kurt de Jong, was born in Frankfurt am Main. During the war, he lived in Rotterdam.

On 21 October 1942, he was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz.

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5 May 1936 | A French Jewish boy, Tomy Lachman, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 21 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 817 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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4 May 1933 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Zsuzsika Schiffer, was born in Hatvan.

In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in Auschwitz.
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▶ WEBINAR: Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://t.co/XJbud0F4gI

[Jan Hoving @JanHoving4]

Sanne Ledermann, Anne's closest friend, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 when she was 15 years old.

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2 May 1935 | A French Jewish boy, Andre Benguigui, was born in Oran in Algieria.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 25 June 1943 in a transport ot 1,018 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 418 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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PODCAST | "The camp through the eyes of a child"

The fate of children who were registered in Auschwitz as prisoners was no different in principle from that of adults. Just like them, they suffered from hunger and cold, were used as laborers, and were punished, put to death, and used as subjects in criminal experiments by SS doctors.

Dr. Wanda Witek-Malicka from Memorial’s Research Center talks about the Auschwitz camp through the eyes of a child.

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[Stephen Uzzell @StephenUzzell2]

My name is Marco Segre. I was born in Milan on 1st June 1942. On 25th May 1944 I was murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz. This photograph is all that remains of me. Please #NeverForget

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28 April 1943 | A French Jewish girl, Michèle Levy, was born in Paris.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 20 December 1943 in a transport of 850 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 505 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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21 April 1934 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Edith Roseij Beek, was born in Oss.

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

[Felix Bohr @felix_bohr]

Dr. Lilli Jahn, jüdische Ärztin, fünffache Mutter, wird am 19. Juni 1944 in Auschwitz ermordet. Kurz zuvor schreibt sie an ihre Kinder: »Meine Gedanken sind ununterbrochen immer bei Euch. Hoffentlich seid Ihr alle gesund. Ich grüße und küsse jeden einzelnen tausend Mal.« 1/2

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19 April 1935 | A French Jewish boy, Bernard Nugelman, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 21 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 817 people murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
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▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://t.co/KArryHBbea

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17 April 1937 | A Romanian Jewish boy, Itzchak Lettich, was born in Chernivtsi. He emigrated to France.

In September 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://t.co/KArryHBbea