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2 February 1923 | A Polish woman, Genowefa Kowalczyk, was born in Skomielna Czarna.
In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943.
No. 32203
Evacuated to KL Bergen-Belsen and liberated there.
From our earliest days, Black history has always been American history – and Black folks have profoundly shaped our American culture through music, art, literature, sports, and beyond. One month a year is not sufficient to celebrate the power of the movements and the people who have fought for the rights we enjoy today. That’s something that we have to do each and every day, as we strive to live up to their example and make sure our children and grandchildren remember their stories.
Never forget how it came to be: little by little...hateful rhetoric, fear-mongering, designations of discrimination, radically inhumane nationalism, white supremacy...all festering until reality reflected rhetoric, until...
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
My HS principal was a Tuskegee airman, an excellent educator that took involved interest in his students education. We never knew his background until the city had a surprise ceremony for him. Rest in power QP Smith. He won't be forgotten. https://t.co/x1Jf8rfLYw
80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
LIVE streaming plan (time zone - CET):
Morning commemoration with Survivors & President of Poland (9 am): https://t.co/AB21aC5H3u
TV Studio (12 pm): https://t.co/EJzKb6odtW
Main event (4 pm): https://t.co/xtNsra1ytl
#WorldPoetryDay | Ilse Weber (b. 1903) worked as a night nurse in Theresienstadt ghetto's infirmary and had the courage to secretly write poems and songs about camp life while her patients slept. She was murdered in Auschwitz on 6 October 1944.
"Wiegala" by Ilse Weber.
At age 16, Elie Wiesel was one of the more than 21,000 people liberated from Buchenwald #OTD in 1945. "I knew I would have to bear witness. Everyone who was there is a witness, and everyone who was there is a true witness," he told NPR in 1988. 📷: National Archives