๐จ The Saudis conveyed messages to the US that they are willing to resume discussing joining the Abraham Accords, but with two conditions: replacing Netanyahu after the elections and canceling Smotrich's moves in Judea and Samaria
BREAKING:
A potential terror attack against the Jewish community in France has been foiled.
Franceโs internal intelligence agency DGSI had information about a car potentially intended for use in a violent action against the Jews.
The car was found by the police in Sarcelles, just north of Paris, which has a large Jewish community.
300 people were evacuated from a cinema and several restaurants near the security perimeter around a car.
Bomb disposal experts were called in and carried out a controlled check shortly before midnight.
In the trunk, they found a rifle and a gun.
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When Alexander Pechersky, known to family and friends as โSashkoโ, an affectionate Georgian diminutive, stepped off the transport from Minsk in September 1943, he had already survived typhus, multiple escape attempts from prisoner-of-war camps, & 3 prior concentration camps. A Red Army lieutenant & a Jew, he had concealed his officer rank from the Nazis, which saved his life, as officers were separated and shot immediately. He arrived at Sobibor with the sharpened alertness of a man who had learned to read danger quickly.
The unusual designation โSonderlager Sobiborโ (Special Camp Sobibor), rather than a standard concentration-camp label, immediately signalled to him that this place was different. Sobibor had operated since May 1942 as one of three secret extermination camps established under Heinrich Himmlerโs personal oversight as part of Operation Reinhard, alongside Belzec and Treblinka.
Built in a remote, marshy forest near the Bug River on the border with occupied Belarus and surrounded by dense woods, swamps & minefields, the site was chosen to make escape almost impossible. The camp was divided into 3 main areas separated by electric fences and deep ditches: a forward zone with SS administration & Ukrainian guard barracks; a central zone containing prisoner barracks & workshops and a sealed inner section with the gas chambers & cremation pyres, hidden from the rest of the camp.
Historians estimate that between 167,000 & 250,000 people were murdered there, arriving from Poland, the Netherlands (more than 34,000 Dutch Jews), France, Germany, Austria, Slovakia & the Soviet Union.
Transports arrived almost daily. As each one pulled in, SS officers called out for specific trades such as tailors, cobblers & carpenters. Those who stepped forward sometimes secured a temporary place in the workforce. Most did not.
Prisoners were told they had come for labour & needed disinfection before continuing. The process was deceptively orderly: music played, staff appeared calm & friendly. Victims were ordered to undress, their heads were shaved (the hair collected and sent to Germany) and they were led to gas chambers disguised as bathhouses. Gustav Wagner, the deputy commandant, was known to walk alongside the lines in a white coat, handing lollipops to children & urging them to stay healthy. In reality, they entered gas chambers where up to 2,000โ3,000 people were murdered in about 3 hours.
On peak days the camp operated for 14โ16 hours and murdered as many as 14,000. Without a dedicated crematorium, bodies were burned on open-air pyres built from railway tracks & fuelled with wood from the surrounding forest. The smoke and smell were visible and noticeable from long distances.
The screaming inside the gas chambers lasted roughly 15 minutes. To mask it, the Nazis kept hundreds of geese nearby; their honking drowned out the sounds of people dying.
A Polish-Jewish underground already existed in the camp when Pechersky arrived, organised by Leon Feldhendler, the son of a rabbi. Feldhendler had survived nearly a year at Sobibor, working in the provisions barracks & witnessing failed escapes and relentless killing.
Deep distrust existed between different Jewish groups (Polish Jews did not fully trust the German & Dutch Jews), but Pechersky, as an outsider with no factional ties, helped unite them.
Feldhendler recognised that Pecherskyโs military experience offered the resistance something new. He persuaded him to take command and shared all he knew. Pechersky insisted from the outset that everybody must escape or nobody would: those left behind would face certain Nazi reprisals.
Continuous communication was essential, yet any unusual gathering would attract immediate attention.
@AlanFJr@Elex_Michaelson@jacobkornbluh No heโs part of the problem. He has normalized this discourse. Fucking shameful. Fuck these โ As a Jewโsโ