Jill Franklin

Mother-in-law & Romanesque art historian. Loves immigration & the Welfare State.The NHS isn’t FREE or a charity. @AdoptionUK #RNLI❤️

[Patrick Allies @PatrickAllies]

1 bass and 1 soprano space available for our Summer School next week! Led by me and 5 singers from Siglo de Oro - we will have a brilliant time. We can offer significant bursaries if the cost is an obstacle.

[Camden Garden Centre @camdengardencen]

Perfect for late #summer, showy blooms in a range of colours, sizes and shapes, #dahlia ‘dahlegria red’ shown here, more in stock. #40yearscamdengardening #since1983
#gardencentre #socialenterprise #camden #northlondongardeners #gardenlovers #trainingandemploymentopportunities

[Auschwitz Exhibition @auschwitzxhibit]

July 30, 1944 | 79 boys up to 14 years of age, among them many newborns, are located in Women’s Camp and 96 boys up to 14 years of age are housed in Men’s Camp in #Auschwitz-Birkenau as prisoners.

[LAAS @LabourAgainstAS]

Kent councillor suspended from @UKLabour over pro-Corbyn film:
- Cllr Raymond Moon sponsored a charity event that showed a screening of “Oh Jeremy Corbyn: the Big Lie” which has been criticised for spreading conspiracy theories and denying antisemitism.
https://t.co/I9BUuBBpkZ

[Mark Sewards MP @MarkJSewards]

It’s the honour of my life to be selected as Labour’s parliamentary candidate for my home constituency of Leeds South West and Morley.

Together, we’re going to win the next election🌹

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

29 July 1937 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Sylvain Laufer, was born in Antwerp.

In September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and after the selection murdered in a gas chamber.

[Jill Franklin @jilanf]

@alexrubner Bye

[Imperial College Chamber Choir @ICChamberChoir]

We're excited to announce that @PatrickAllies is our new Musical Director!
https://t.co/VUQ1vsY0XX

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

25 July 1934 | A Czech Jewish girl, Ilona Raabová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 23 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber.

[Humans of Judaism @HumansOfJudaism]

This past week marked the anniversary of the Vél d’Hiv Roundup. On July 16, 1942, the French police began a mass roundup of foreign Jews living in Paris and its surrounding suburbs. Over the course of two days, more than 13,000 Jews were arrested and held in the Vélodrome d’Hiver (Winter Stadium) before being shipped off to concentration camps.

Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard was one of the few who managed to escape the stadium that summer. Born in Poland in 1928, Sarah was just a toddler when her parents decided to move to France to escape the rising tide of antisemitism in Poland. But in the early hours of July 16, Sarah and her mother Maria were forcibly taken from their home in Paris. They were told they’d be sent to work in Germany, but Sarah’s mother soon learned this was a lie. She stuck some money in her 14-year-old daughter’s pocket and ordered her to leave the stadium by any means possible. Sarah managed to escape, followed by her mother shortly after.

The pair found refuge with friends until they were denounced by a neighbor in 1944. Sarah and Maria were again arrested and detained at Drancy before being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. They were later sent on a death march to Bergen-Belsen where they were liberated in April 1945. Sadly, Sarah passed away last year, but she spent her life ensuring that the world would #NeverForget. Each time Sarah told her story, she spoke not only for herself, but also the 77,000 Jews of France who did not survive to tell their own.

Photo: @lesdna
Contributor: @Jggoltz

[Peter McMullin @mcmullin_peter]

@CliveMyrieBBC Mr Myrie, I admire you for many reasons, but I do have to take issue with this statement of yours. As a communicator you wouldn’t regard knowing the difference between nouns, verbs and adverbs as being “naff” I’m sure. Crotchets & quavers are to music as numbers are to counting.

[Norman Lebrecht @NLebrecht]

@CliveMyrieBBC You have to wonder why a competent BBC presenter feels a need to mock technical knowledge and deprecate expertise, the more so when he can read music himself. He probably doesn't mean to do it. He is playing to a populist gallery.
https://t.co/PNifzCwbM7

[Alexandra Wilson @amwilson_opera]

We know that you are one of the few people in the public eye who are prepared to admit to a love of opera, @CliveMyrieBBC. I have mentioned that in a book I am writing. Please don't reinforce the elitism stereotype that does so much harm! For it is just that.

[Jill Franklin @jilanf]

@Reverend_Makers @ecomarxi Nah!