Zofia Posmysz, born in 1923, was taken to #Auschwitz in May 1942. She was 18 years old at the time. Her prisoner number was: 7566. "It’s necessary to keep yourself from mindless and absolute submission to ideologies”. Watch the entire interview: https://t.co/Sy8qIQ1dEo
The two pictures are 11 years apart.
On 10 May 1933 the Nazi party staged ideological spectacle of burning of 'un-German’ books.
2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber V, 1944.
#Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead to.
Memoria Histórica: The Nazi - Soviet Pact that paved the way for the joint invasion of Poland and the start of WWII https://t.co/tnwLQjsMwP via @HolocaustMuseum
At 10 years old, Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova survived the Germans by hiding in a basement in Mariupol.
81 years later, she died in a basement in the same city as a victim of the horrific war hiding from the Russians.
Read more: https://t.co/6QPx6vahFh
This crime happened less than 8 months after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact for which Hitler's Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union agreed to partition Poland. #MemoriaHistorica
This crime happened less than 8 months after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact for which Hitler's Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union agreed to partition Poland. #MemoriaHistorica
This day in 1940, the NKVD (Soviet secret police) began the execution of 22,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia to prevent a potential future Polish military. The shootings started in the evening and ended at dawn throughout April and May. #WW2
Memoria Histórica: The Nazi - Soviet Pact that paved the way for the joint invasion of Poland and the start of WWII https://t.co/tnwLQjsMwP via @HolocaustMuseum
"As we learned from his loved ones, our friend Boris Romanchenko, who survived the Nazi camps #Buchenwald , #Peenemünde , #Dora and #BergenBelsen , was killed last Friday in a bomb blast at his home in #Харькове . We are deeply disturbed."
Как мы узнали от его близких, наш друг Борис Романченко, который пережил нацистские лагеря #Buchenwald, #Peenemünde, #Dora и #BergenBelsen, был убит в прошлую пятницу в результате взрыва бомбы в своем доме в #Харькове. Мы глубоко встревожены.
"Con la mayor tristeza os informamos de que Yuliia Zdanovska, concursante de EGMO (European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad) de los años 2016 y 2017, ha muerto en un bombardeo de las fuerzas rusas en Kharkiv, Ucrania. Solo tenía 21 años" https://t.co/03UkFV2pJ7
For Ukrainian Holocaust survivors the Russia's invasion of Ukraine is especially alarming. These elderly Jewish citizens endured profound struggles during the 1940s at the hands of the Nazis. Now, they find themselves, once again, at risk.
https://t.co/BEGfWfWutk
The @AuschwitzMuseum and @HolocaustMuseum condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, both for the “megalomania” of Vladimir Putin, and his exploitation of history as a false justification for his military campaign.
https://t.co/mWkij4OQ8P