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In 1943, Odile de Vasselot began her perilous missions helping downed Allied airmen escape across occupied France.
She collected them at the Belgian border, equipped them with false papers, and guided them on the dangerous journey to Spain and freedom.
We remember her today.
12 June 1913 | A Polish man, Stefan Kiślewicz, was born in Żabie. A teacher.
In #Auschwitz from 24 May 1941.
No. 16189
He was murdered by starvation on 31 October 1941.
This is ahistorical nonsense. It brings together over 100 pieces of legislation from 1970 onward. Even the PSED was developed from earlier legislation concerning separately Race , Gender and Disablity. The Act was developed by the Discrimination Law Review & Parliamentary Counsel
@TimesRadio Adult and child social care, education, roads, planning, environment, public transport and, yes, bin collections are the jobs of local authorities and mayors. Not foreign policy and international relations.
He's been elected to serve the residents of Lewisham, not Gaza.
This week, Edith Eva Eger passed away at 99.
At 16, she was deported to Auschwitz with her parents. They were murdered upon arrival. Edith, a ballet dancer and gymnast was forced to perform for Josef Mengele.
In her memoir, The Choice, she writes:
“Dance for me,” Mengele ordered.
As he watched, he calmly decided who would live and who would die.
“If I miss a step… it could be me.”
“I dance. I dance. I dance in hell.”
In that moment, she made a decision that stayed with her for life:
“I am free in my mind. He never will be.”
When Allied forces arrived, she was found barely alive in a pile of bodies - saved only because an American soldier noticed her hand move.
After the war, she immigrated to the United States, built a family, and struggled with survivor’s guilt until meeting Viktor Frankl, whose guidance helped her heal.
She went on to become a psychologist influenced by logotherapy and an existentialist approach to therapy.
At 90, she published The Choice, which became an international bestseller. She later wrote The Ballerina of Auschwitz and The Gift.
4 May 1885 | Czech Jewish woman, Eliška Broková, was born in Rokycany.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt on 15 December 1943. She was registered in a family camp for Jews deported from this ghetto. She did not survive.
4 May 1924 | Dutch Jewish girl, Wilhelmina Behr, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in December 1942. She did not survive.
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Children at Auschwitz
📖 Lesson: https://t.co/76Qn5Zseha
🎧 Podcast: https://t.co/XfLNMGnx4H
I feel as "kind" towards those who either trashed or watched women being trashed for being being 'gender critical' as I do towards the ludicrous man with his imaginary friends. We are dealing with basic dishonesty past and present here.
9 April 1869 | A German Sinti woman, Pauline Schneeberger was born.
In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 17 March 1943.
No. Z-4395
She perished in the camp on 10 July 1943.
“I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a God. I don’t think there is a God, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me.”
Greenland 🇬🇱 is not “a poorly run piece of ice.”
Greenland 🇬🇱 is far more than ice — it is a democratic society with free elections, rule of law, and a people who determine their own future.
We are not a talking point in someone else’s rhetoric — we are a people with dignity, history, and self-government under the Kingdom of Denmark.
9 April 1927 | A French Jew, Bernard Dawidowicz, was born in Paris.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 20 September 1942 in a transport of 1,002 Jews deported from #Drancy. He was 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
9 April 1925 | A Polish woman, Janina Jodłowska, was born in Krakow.
In #Auschwitz from 19 January 1943.
No. 29708 (political prisoner)
She escaped during evacuation of the camp in January 1945.
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▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://t.co/oPWNingTO6
9 April 1968 | Zofia Kossak-Szczucka passed away. A writer, co-founder of Żegota Council; Arrested on 27 Sep 1943 and imprisoned in #Auschwitz 9 days later (64491). In May 1944 she was transferred to Warsaw & sentenced to death. Released thanks to efforts of Polish underground.