Poilu Inconnu

[Genevra Charsley @FlandersBTour]

Yet another Belgian war cemetery has been vandalised this one at Houthulst around 135 have been vandalised with what looks as though the bronze plaques have been ripped off & stolen, along with headstones being smashed in the process. This is so heartbreaking to see happening here in Flanders, very sad.

📸 Jeroen Vandromme

[Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine @militaryhistori]

French police seize whole war museum: https://t.co/pjZt2uf3CJ

[Ryan Gearing @TommiesGuides]

Seizure of 25,000 artifacts will force the closure of Romagne 14-18, a major private FWW museum on the Argonne https://t.co/IbljLsB1VG

[Studiecentrum Eerste Wereldoorlog @SSEW1914_1918]

19 mei 1935: de Britse archeoloog, inlichtingenofficier en schrijver T.E. Lawrence (46) stierf bij een motorongeluk. Hij is vooral bekend vanwege zijn betrokkenheid bij de Arabische Opstand in de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Het leverde hem de bijnaam 'Lawrence of Arabia' op.

[Jeff Gusky @hiddenwwi]

Wartime German statue with curved pieces of corrugated steel in the background which were often placed over trenches for protection
#ww1 #blackandwhitephotography

[Vanguard WWII by Cadet - bringing history to life! @Vanguard_WW2]

Some lowlifes have stolen bronze plaques from the German military cemetery at Saint-Laurent-Blangy near Arras in northern France.
The cemetery is the resting place of nearly 40,000 soldiers, the vast majority of whom died in the Great War, as well as some from World War Two.
The bronze plaques bore the names of those who rest in the mass graves.

[Auschwitz Exhibition @auschwitzxhibit]

January 24, 1944 | The Litzmannstadt Gestapo informs the Auschwitz Kommandant's office that documents that belonged to deceased prisoners are to be destroyed immediately on site.
Their families are to be informed that the property of their relatives will not be returned to them.

[WW1 On This Day @WW1IEPER1917]

The hell of Ieper (Ypres) in 1917.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

25 January 1935 | Dutch Jewish boy, John Groenteman, was born in Amsterdam.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

[Commonwealth War Graves @CWGC]

This year, we hosted a number of burial services across our sites worldwide. We are deeply grateful to all our colleagues who worked tirelessly to help organise these events.

In October, we hosted an incredibly poignant ceremony at our Poelcapelle British Cemetery in Belgium where an unknown British soldier and an unknown German soldier, discovered together in a shell hole, were laid to rest in a single coffin.

 📷Eric Compernolle

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

19 December 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Frank Emanuel Polak, was born in Amsterdam.

In February 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://t.co/6eiP6NhuGE

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

18 December 1922 | A Frenchman, Henri Rolland, was born in Paris.

In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1942.
No. 46067
He perished in the camp on 28 August 1942.

[315e RI @Ri315e]

YouTube 🗣️ "why dont you put pictures side by side, so can really see: Then and Now"

They asked...I have now delivered, enjoy
▶️https://t.co/fAIngG6xQ3

A longer version is in the works, with new photos I will be taking on the Somme. It should be ready to close out 2025!

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

19 December 1934 | Dutch Jewish boy Robert Goudsmit was born in Haren.

In December 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://t.co/iZ1YCUD57C

[Auschwitz Exhibition @auschwitzxhibit]

December 1938 | Jewish refugee children, part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport) from Germany, soon after arriving in Harwich, Great Britain.

#AuschwitzExhibition #NotLongAgoNotFarAway

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

20 December 1932 | Dutch Jewish boy, Josua Leendert Sanders, was born in Rotterdam

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://t.co/KArryHBbea

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

20 December 1929 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Rudi Tilly Speijer, was born in Amsterdam.

In January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://t.co/oPWNingTO6

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

20 December 1938 | French Jewish girl Eveline Stabryd was born in Paris.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 21 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 817 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://t.co/AENjcRS04c

[Imperial War Museums @I_W_M]

Footage of 6th Airborne Division troops after landing in Germany during Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945.

Film: IWM A70 278-6

[Auschwitz Exhibition @auschwitzxhibit]

December 18, 1939 | Bochnia, German-occupied Poland: Over 50 Polish men were executed in reprisal for an attack on a German police station by the underground organization 'White Eagle'.

#AuschwitzExhibition #NotLongAgoNotFarAway