Lera

A lover of books, music and spending hours curled up in bed with my laptop and a mug of tea

[Adil Soomro @RealAdilSoomro]

Bro found an offline game 😂💀

[MR MOTIVATOR👽💀 @TaiwoMuyiwa23]

Mother Cat came out to look for human help cos her kid is trapped 😢💔🫂

[Daily Harry Potter @TheDailyHPotter]

Ron Weasley yelling “Expensive Petroleum” while filling up his car might be the peak of comedy 🤣

[Niko 🌸 || trying not to cry @LovingSakuras]

6 years!?

[J @JasonB617]

@ThatEricAlper We lost a whole generation of gay men

[Jackson Harlem @JacksonHarlem]

Ancient Egypt Had Royal Gays⁉️🤯

[Lera @Woollera]

@tugce190333 House hippo!

[Lera @Woollera]

@miyaoshis I love that Sugi is a demon lord! Hehe it matches his scowl ( ￣▽￣)
and nire being a support healer is amazing!

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

April 1944.

Two little girls arrived at Auschwitz holding hands.

Andra was 4 years old.
Tatiana was 6.

They wore matching gray coats with yellow stars stitched onto them. To the guards on the Birkenau ramp, they looked like twins.

That mistake saved their lives.

The sisters, Andra and Tatiana Bucci, came from Fiume — a city that was Italian at the time and is now part of Croatia. Their father was Catholic. Their mother, Mira, was Jewish.

For years, they lived an ordinary childhood.

Then came the racial laws.
Then the arrests.

On March 28, 1944, soldiers came for the family.

The girls, their mother, grandmother, aunt, and young cousin Sergio were all taken away and eventually forced onto a cattle train headed for Auschwitz-Birkenau.

When they arrived, Dr. Josef Mengele stood on the selection ramp deciding who would live and who would die.

Most small children were sent directly to the gas chambers.

But Mengele was obsessed with twins for his experiments.

Andra and Tatiana were not twins — they were two years apart — but dressed alike, they appeared to be.

So they were spared.

Their grandmother and aunt were murdered almost immediately.

The girls were tattooed with numbers:
76483.
76484.

In Auschwitz, names were meant to disappear.

But their mother refused to let that happen.

At night, Mira secretly visited the children’s barracks whenever she could.

She risked beatings and death just to whisper the same words to her daughters over and over:

“Never forget your names.”

Not prayers.
Not promises.

Just their names.

“Andra Bucci.”
“Tatiana Bucci.”

In a place designed to erase identity, remembering who you were became an act of resistance.

The girls later said they didn’t fully understand the horror around them. They were too young. Auschwitz became their version of normal life.

But they remembered fear.

They remembered children disappearing.

Doctors in white coats would come into the barracks and take children away.

Most never returned.

One day, a prisoner warned the sisters that someone would soon ask which children wanted to see their mothers.

“Do not move,” she told them.

“No matter what.”

The girls obeyed.

But their cousin Sergio stepped forward.

He missed his mother.

The sisters watched him leave.

He was later murdered after being used in medical experiments along with other children.

Andra and Tatiana survived partly because they stayed silent and invisible.

Then, in January 1945, the camp suddenly changed.

The guards vanished.
The barking dogs stopped.
And Soviet soldiers entered Auschwitz.

One of them handed the girls a piece of salami.

Liberation had arrived.

But freedom did not instantly heal anything.

The sisters spent months in orphanages, moving between countries, speaking broken mixtures of German, Czech, and other languages.

For a time, they even forgot Italian.

Then, in England, someone showed them a photograph.

It was their parents’ wedding picture.

“Your mother and father are alive,” they were told.

Their mother had survived.
Their father had survived.
And they had spent months searching for their daughters across postwar Europe.

When the girls were finally reunited with their mother in Italy, they cried.

Not because they were happy.

Because they no longer recognized her.

Trauma had stolen even that.

Slowly, over time, they rebuilt their lives.

For decades, they rarely spoke publicly about Auschwitz.

Then in the 1990s, they decided silence was no longer enough.

Since then, Andra and Tatiana Bucci have spent years speaking to students and returning to Auschwitz to tell people what happened there.

Today, they are among the youngest surviving people with living memories of Auschwitz.

And after everything that camp tried to erase, two things survived:

Their names.

And their mother’s whisper in the darkness:

“Never forget who you are.”

[Lera @Woollera]

@picsolivr Big mood

[soy @cenflore]

for the crime of merely existing, millions are having their rights stripped away. please, don't stay silent to their suffering

[Lera @Woollera]

@KEI_URANA I'm so confused 😂

[Lera @Woollera]

@nii_satoru おかえりなさい! ❤️ Welcome back Nii-sensei!

[Lera @Woollera]

@vidsthatgohard I thought this was real 😭 oh man, the amount of memes thats going to flood the internet on that day will be beautiful

[Lera @Woollera]

@faith_vtch I do this too! When it warms up in the winter thanks you a chinook I'll open all the windows and set up a fan to blow in fresh air. I'm so glad there are others who understand! I'm always questioned why I open them in winter 😭

[Chioma @Merchimaaa]

SHE HAS A NAME!!!!!!!

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