Veronica Leigh (she/her)

Christian. Author. Chocolate and coffee addict. Book lover. Well, that's about it. #writingcommunity #historicalfiction #crimefiction #indieauthor No DMs.

[Veronica Leigh (she/her) @vlauthor]

https://t.co/D1mJaZHKbK Well, today is the day. My book, “The Keeper of Lost Daughters,” has been released. If you would like to buy a copy, follow the link below. I hope you like it. I'm going to run and hide now. #historicalfiction #indieauthors

[Veronica Leigh (she/her) @vlauthor]

https://t.co/scdi3nlXGH Guess who turned one year old today! #historicalfiction #holocaust #shoah #indieauthor #authorsoftwitter #writingcommunity

[Veronica Leigh (she/her) @vlauthor]

Wonderful news! Yours Truly was recently interviewed by Connected Woman Magazine! Special thanks to Connected Woman was this amazing opportunity. I appreciate it. https://t.co/03QbW9s4dd #authorinterview #indieauthor #authorsoftwitter

[Veronica Leigh (she/her) @vlauthor]

https://t.co/TwGMTtrxrt Judy Garland fans, do you remember this old biopic? #judygarland #tammyblanchard #judydavis #periodrama #lifewithjudygarland

[Jane Austen @austendaily]

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

[LiterateIndy @LiterateIndy]

Eva Mozes Kor, 1960.

Eva, survivor with her twin sister of Mengele's experiments at Auschwitz, founded the Candles Holocaust Museum in Terre Haute, was twice honored as a Sagamore of the Wabash and also received the Sachem Award.

#IndianaBrides
(Indiana Historical Society)

[Literary Loves ✍️ 📚 Caroline Malcolm-Boulton @TheScribblerCMB]

After Jane Austen’s death, her identity as an author remained largely anonymous. Her gravestone in Winchester Cathedral makes no reference to her literary work, only her virtues as a daughter and Christian, leaving her genius unmentioned where she was laid to rest.

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

Who else is ready for tweets about the 82nd anniversary of DDay for the next couple days!? 🪖

[Suzanne Kelman @suzkelman]

📚 I had a to-do list today.

Then I opened a book.

The rest is history. 😄

What's the last book that completely derailed your plans?

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Greatness. Eisenhower's note, written today, in which he takes full responsibility - "mine alone" - in the event that D-Day fails.

[Jane Austen @austendaily]

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

It should break every Christian’s heart that our faith was used as a political tool to bring our country to where it is today.

[Veronica Leigh (she/her) @vlauthor]

Huge $600 SUMMER Book and Prizes Giveaway! #giveaway #win https://t.co/XYePrQ6pjL

[Veronica Leigh (she/her) @vlauthor]

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[Veronica Leigh (she/her) @vlauthor]

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[Veronica Leigh (she/her) @vlauthor]

https://t.co/PtuGsbSaWS I have an update on my upcoming novel, "Eye For An Eye!" #ladysheriffseries #historicalfiction #mysteryfiction #crimefiction #LevelBestBooks #writingcommunity #indieauthor

[Veronica Leigh (she/her) @vlauthor]

https://t.co/PtuGsbSaWS I have an update on my upcoming novel, "Eye For An Eye!" #ladysheriffseries #historicalfiction #mysteryfiction #crimefiction #LevelBestBooks #writingcommunity #indieauthor

[Jane Austen @austendaily]

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

In the case of KL Auschwitz, a surprisingly large number of such sources have survived, despite the SS’s attempts to destroy and burn all documentation before the final evacuation in January 1945. Moreover, the crimes committed in this camp were also testified by witnesses, who were far more numerous than the survivors of Treblinka, Sobibor or Belzec. As a result, the history of Auschwitz is among the best documented of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps.

https://t.co/KH7B2X2Twh

The primary sources of knowledge about the history of the Auschwitz camp are the accounts and testimonies of witnesses.

The authors of these accounts were primarily:

- Survivors of Auschwitz,
- SS members of the camp staff,
- residents of Oświęcim and surrounding villages (including members of the resistance movement),
- civilian workers employed in the expansion of the camp and working alongside the prisoners on construction sites and in factories, chiefly in Upper Silesia.

Among the testimonies written during the war, the following in particular should be mentioned:

- the manuscripts of Sonderkommando prisoners, which they had hidden (buried) near the Birkenau crematoria,
- the secret messages and reports written by resistance movement members and smuggled out of the camp,
- correspondence illegally smuggled out of the camp to avoid SS censorship,
- the reports of those who had escaped from the camp—both Poles and Jews.

Of the key sets of records, the most important in confirming the existence and functioning of the gas chambers in Auschwitz include:

- transport lists (Transportlisten) of Jews sent to Auschwitz from transit camps in various countries of Europe, sometimes containing last-minute deletions of individuals withdrawn from the transport and the inclusion of the names of those added to make up the transport quota;
- collective lists of Jews from various transports who were given prisoner numbers (Zugangslisten Juden – nicht fotografiert);
- similar lists of registered prisoners, including Jews as well as other deportees, prepared by members of the resistance movement (Liste der Männertransporte, corresponding lists for women, and separate lists of male and female Jews assigned numbers preceded by the letters A and B).

The above sources indicate that from the commencement of regular selections of Jewish transports on the Auschwitz ramps, the number of deportees began to dramatically exceed, by several orders of magnitude, the number of prisoners registered in the camp.

Moreover, there exist:
- a few surviving reports on the results of selections on the Birkenau ramp after the arrival of transports, prepared by the KL Auschwitz Employment Department;
- statistical summaries compiled at Bletchley Park based on SS radiograms intercepted and deciphered by British cryptologists during the war;
- extensive files of the Central Construction Office of the SS and Police Auschwitz O/S containing information about the planning and progress of construction work, including the construction of crematoria and gas chambers;
- files of the Camp Administration Department (Verwaltung), including certificates for purchase and delivery of Zyklon B;
- files of the camp Employment Department (Arbeitseinsatz), including reports of the number of prisoners employed in the Sonderkommando;
- photographs of the burning of corpses in incineration pits, taken by members of the resistance movement within the Sonderkommando;
- photographs taken by the SS, showing the selection procedure on the Birkenau railway ramp, from the arrival of a transport of Jews to the place where the deportees waited to enter the gas chambers;
- SS photographs showing the progress of work on the construction of the crematoria and gas chambers;
- aerial photographs of Auschwitz and Birkenau taken by the pilots of Allied reconnaissance aeroplanes in 1944, showing the plumes of smoke rising from the incineration pyres;
as well as many other documents containing information confirming the existence of gas chambers.

Above all, the Museum grounds contain the ruins of the crematoria and gas chambers, which, despite having been blown up by the SS, still retain their clear functional layout. Moreover, Gas Chamber and Crematorium I building have survived in the Auschwitz I main camp.

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ❤️