Amidst the bombed ruins of a London bookshop, a boy sits and reads a book named “The History of London". #OTD October 8, 1940.

Moshe Ridler was sent to a Nazi concentration camp at age 9, and succeeded in fleeing it at 11. #OTD October 7, 2023, 91-year-old Moshe Ridler was murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Holit.

Janush Korchak , the head of an orphanage in Warsaw, decided that he would not save his own life and that he would accompany his students to the death camp of Treblinka where they were all were murdered by the Germans and their helpers.

#OTD 4 October 1992, Yad Vashem recognized Destan & Lime Balla as Righteous Among the Nations. The Ballas hid the 3 Lazar brothers for 15 months in their village of Shengjergji, Albania.

My name is Rudi René Hond. I was born in Amsterdam in October 1938. In August 1942 I was deported to #Auschwitz. We were led into a chamber that filled with gas. Murdered, for being Jewish. Please #NeverForget

A 10 year old girl from Hungary liberated from Auschwitz Birkenau by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.

My name is Gitla Smutek. I was born ✡️ in Paris in 1936. I arrived at Auschwitz #OTD 29 September 1942 in a transport of 1,004 Jews deported from Drancy. 698 of us were murdered after selection in the gas chambers.

Over two days on September 29-30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jews like Vevele below were shot and murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators at Babi Yar, a ravine outside of Kyiv. #otd

My name is Gitla Smutek. I was born ✡️ in Paris in 1936. I arrived at Auschwitz #OTD 29 September 1942 in a transport of 1,004 Jews deported from Drancy. 698 of us were murdered after selection in the gas chambers.

My name is Ina da Costa da Fonseca. I was born in Amsterdam in 1937. In 1940 Germany invaded by home country. Two years later my family were deported to Auschwitz. I was murdered in a gas chamber. I was 5. I was not the youngest to be killed that day. Remember us, please.

Unimaginable scenes of joy on September 18th 1944. Eindhoven was one the first major cities liberated from Nazi occupation in operation Market Garden.

Vilnius was once called the Jerusalem of the North. 76 years ago, #OTD September 23, the Vilna Ghetto was liquidated. 95% of the Jewish community was murdered. Resistance leader Abba Kovner survived, and went on to form the original Avengers. I remember them all in I AM JUDEN.

The Jewish community of Würzburg, Germany was officially liquidated #OTD 22 September 1943 Several days earlier, a wooden crate containing 25 #Torah scrolls was brought to the Jewish cemetery and buried in the ground; a tombstone was placed over the grave.

Andrzej Miłosz, reporter and WW2 resistance member, together with his brother Czesław (1980 literature Nobel laureate), helped two Jewish families during the German-perpetrated Holocaust. Both were named Righteous Among the Nations. He died #OTD in 2002.

'After Auschwitz, the human condition is no longer the same. After Auschwitz, nothing will ever be the same.' — Elie Wiesel

Starving children asking for alms in the Warsaw ghetto, Poland, taken by German soldiers Heinz Joest during a leave in occasion of his birthday #OTD September 19, 1941. Credit: Media Drum World

September 14, 1930: The Nazi Party received 18.3 percent of the votes cast in the Reichstag election. Holding 107 of the Reichstag’s 577 seats, the party now had the ability to change Germany's future Pictured: pro-Nazi political poster

July 15th 1942: the first transport left the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands for Auschwitz-Birkenau. Two-year-old Suzanne Hochherr and her parents were part of this transport. They were all killed at Auschwitz.

“I didn’t want the Germans to have the satisfaction of killing me – of having me dead. So I did everything to stay alive.” When WWII broke out, Selma van de Perre joined the Dutch resistance as a spy – and even continued her acts of resistance when imprisoned in Ravensbrück.

#Holocaust survivor, Paula Frahm, describes the deportation which left #OTD 14 September 1942 "The last meal turned out to be surprisingly good... We did not yet realize that this would be the only real food we would see in the years to come" Learn more ow.ly/pDmf50BgGxh

#OTD September 13, 1944: Allied forces accidentally bombed Auschwitz, killing 40 prisoners and 15 SS troops, while attempting to bomb a nearby IG Farben factory. #WWII

One of the babies that was among the liberated prisoners of Auschwitz.

One of the babies that was among the liberated prisoners of Auschwitz.

From this bullet scarred crypt window in central Prague, the Czech SOE agents who had assassinated Nazi General Reinhard Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid, fired their last shots. Tracked down and surrounded, they held off several hundred SS until finally overcome. Brave men.

Another unsung hero of the Holocaust. Born January 28th in 1911 - teacher Johan van Hulst saved 600 Jewish children from certain death.

I was born #OTD 9 September 1937 in Groningen, Holland. My name is Marcus Benjamins. Two years later I was deported to Auschwitz from Westerbork. In 1942 I was murdered in a gas chamber.

I was born #OTD 9 September 1937 in Groningen, Holland. My name is Marcus Benjamins. Two years later I was deported to Auschwitz from Westerbork. In 1942 I was murdered in a gas chamber.

My name is Blanka Schwarzkopf. I was born in Prague in September 1936. When I was 8, Germans deported me to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto. On 9th October 1944, I was led into the gas chamber. My crime? Being Jewish.

Paul Grueninger, a Swiss border police commander, disobeyed orders & allowed Jewish refugees fleeing war-torn Europe to enter Switzerland 82 years ago, #OTD September 7 1938. He even paid with his own money to buy winter clothes for needy refugees.

Paul Grueninger, a Swiss border police commander, disobeyed orders & allowed Jewish refugees fleeing war-torn Europe to enter Switzerland 82 years ago, #OTD September 7 1938. He even paid with his own money to buy winter clothes for needy refugees.

My name is Petr Haim. I was born in Prague in 1928. I was deported from the Theresienstadt Ghetto to Auschwitz #OTD 6 September 1943. I did not survive. This photograph is all that remains of me. Please #NeverForget

My name is Petr Haim. I was born in Prague in 1928. I was deported from the Theresienstadt Ghetto to Auschwitz #OTD 6 September 1943. I did not survive. This photograph is all that remains of me. Please #NeverForget

Wiesław Chrzanowski, an officer in the Polish Home Army, at a townhouse on Wilcza Street in Warsaw, during the Warsaw Uprising #OTD September 5, 1944.

"Street by street Jews were cleared and, at any moment, it was probably our turn." As a child, Ruth Rogoff escaped from Germany and arrived in Britain on the day that war started, September 1939. Here with brother Salo, in the garden of their new home in October 1940.

"Street by street Jews were cleared and, at any moment, it was probably our turn." As a child, Ruth Rogoff escaped from Germany and arrived in Britain on the day that war started, September 1939. Here with brother Salo, in the garden of their new home in October 1940.

Jewish children wearing the compulsory yellow badge. In September 1943, they were deported to Auschwitz. 📷 Antwerp, occupied Belgium, 1943.

Jewish children wearing the compulsory yellow badge. In September 1943, they were deported to Auschwitz. 📷 Antwerp, occupied Belgium, 1943.

On the left, a portrait of children taken in the courtyard of a Jewish school in Deventer, the Netherlands, in September 1942. On the right, Felice Polak, the girl in the white dress, is known to have survived. It is believed all the other children were murdered at Auschwitz.

A portrait of children taken in the courtyard of a Jewish school in Deventer, the Netherlands, in September 1942. Felice Polak, the girl in the white dress, is known to have survived. It is believed all the other children were murdered at Auschwitz.

Hell Broke Loose #OTD September 1st 1939 at 4:45 A.M. 86 years ago today, the bloodiest conflict in the history of mankind began with the invasion of Poland. #WW2

Holland deported more of its Jews than any other country. Anne Frank was an exception, but ultimately met this fate. So did Hartog Roodveldt, born in Amsterdam in January 1932. #OTD 31 August 1943 he was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz. After selection - murdered by gas.

Holland deported more of its Jews than any other country. Anne Frank was an exception, but ultimately met this fate. So did Hartog Roodveldt, born in Amsterdam in January 1932. #OTD 31 August 1943 he was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz. After selection - murdered by gas.

Nancy Wake (born #OTD 1912) of Australia was a spy for the French Resistance. In 1943 she topped the Gestapo's most wanted list. Here she explains how to kill a Nazi.

What a smile. What lust for life. What an irrepressible character he must have been. Hersz Nejman was murdered in Auschwitz on August 26th, 1942.

What a smile. What lust for life. What an irrepressible character he must have been. Hersz Nejman was murdered in Auschwitz on August 26th, 1942.

Nazi officers placed under arrest by French forces in Paris after the city was liberated, August 26 in 1944. Photo: AP. #OTD

Paris was liberated #OTD 25 August 1944🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇲

My name is Leon Ramo. I was born in Paris in 1935. I arrived at Auschwitz #OTD 23 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. I was among the 892 people murdered in gas chambers immediately after selection.

My name is Leon Ramo. I was born in Paris in 1935. I arrived at Auschwitz #OTD 23 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. I was among the 892 people murdered in gas chambers immediately after selection.

A Dutch Jewish child walking in Bergen-Belsen in 1945. © George Rodger