8 October 1881 | A Pole, Stanisław Nycz, was born in Lwów. A teacher. In #Auschwitz from 5 May 1942. No. 34767 He perished in the camp on 28 May 1942. --- Lekcja online „Polacy w KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/pl_2020_06_polacy/

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

7 October 1916 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Sophie Slier-Roselaar, was born in Amsterdam. In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @dailymail.co.uk and @thespectator1828.bsky.social have all promoted Nigel Biggar’s latest book as the definitive riposte to reparations claims. But what exactly are its arguments and how do they stand up to scrutiny? alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-ant...

6 October 1939 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Klara Jas, was born in Amsterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 26 August 1943 with her mother Henderika and little brother Isaac. They were all murdered in a gas chamber. --- Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

Re: 75 Brexit Benefits book. Alan has examined 3, which don’t stand up, and infers the rest are unlikely. (See his thread for more info.)

Very easy to see, in this English language website of Rivesaltes, that the harkis are not ‘invisible’! www.memorialcamprivesaltes.eu/en/history-r...

Reform lied and can’t cut costs? What a surprise!

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s slapstick gaffe parade continues today. She countered criticism of her Reform-copy plan to take the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights by pointing out the US, Australia and NZ aren’t members of the ECHR. The *European* Court of Human Rights.

5 October 1891 | A Czech Jewish woman, Olga Žáková, was born in Lažany. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

"Does the ECHR stop states from controlling their borders?" No. The ECHR Court emphasises migration policies are up to states themselves. "But the ECHR stops the UK from deporting foreign criminals." No, it doesn't. Successful human rights-based appeals against deportation are very rare.

4 October 1911 | A Czech Jew, Kurt Reach, was born in Prague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

This is a great piece of local journalism - about all those flags going up in Brum. Some interesting details.

I didn't know until we buried my mother, so probably most people here don't know: Jewish cemeteries strongly recommend that you get insurance for the headstone. Because the cemeteries are so often desecrated, the gravestones smashed.

Bobby Cain, who led a group of 12 Black students in desegregating the high school in Clinton, Tennessee in 1956, has passed away at age 85. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

3 October 1900 | A German Jew, Kurt Rosenberg, was born in Berlin. In December 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

Manchester Jewish Museum opened in 1984, but is housed in a Grade II listed 1874 (former) Spanish and Portuguese synagogue in Cheetham Hill, which has been beautifully restored as part of the development of the museum. www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/collections/...

Conservationists and police are appealing for information after a satellite-tagged Golden Eagle disappeared in southern Scotland:

This is great on Michelle Mone not, in fact, being a successful tycoon. "(Incidentally, I haven’t the foggiest whether the Queen did sport an Ultimo bra, and I’m certainly not going to ring up the palace and ask.)"

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:

2 October 1924 | An Austrian Sinti, Karl Baranyai, was born in Doiber. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 16 April 1943. No. Z-6516 He perished in the camp on 30 December 1943.

I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt. Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.

750,000 people under siege in El Fashar, Sudan face starvation or being massacred right now. They’ve trapped. The RSF is intensifying attacks. There’s no where for them to go

Ooops! Nearly missed the day, 10 years is today.

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Comedian goes to Saudi Arabia - and beyond!

1 October 1925 | 100 years ago, Stanisław Zalewski, a Polish man, was born in Sucha Wola. Join us on the occasion of his birthday and share your birthday wishes in the comments.

Apparently 5% of Reform voters think they are racist.

1 October 1854 | A Dutch Jew, Heiman Leefsma, was born in Opsterland. In January 1943, he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

30 September 1928 | Elie Wiesel was born in Romania. A Jewish writer, Auschwitz & Buchenwald survivor, Peace Nobel Prize laureate. "Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades. One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge. Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I know the Education sector in England best - and it needs to recruit teachers from overseas. Teachers in Secondary are often doing 60 hours a week. When are they meant to “volunteer” (do forced work)? Or can the hours they do over their contracted hours count?? (Ha! /s) Without these people my ….

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

Victor Garvey is one of London's biggest chefs; beloved by critics like Giles Coren. But ex-staff, friends and investors paint a different picture; of bailiffs, mid-restaurant fights and Warhammer 40k fans losing their savings to Garvey. Our weekend exposé: www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-rise-and...

28 September 1910 | A Czech, Franz Palek, was born. A foundry man. In #Auschwitz from 14 August 1942. No. 58685 He perished in the camp on 24 November 1942. --- A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

So as part of my day job I regularly have to check people's right to be in the UK, via a UK passport, or an eVisa/share code. These are legal requirements. Anyone saying we need online ID so we can verify who has a right to be in the UK is lying to you. We already do that. They are lying.

27 September 1921 | A Pole, Jerzy Bogusz, was born in Nowy Sącz. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to #Auschwitz. No. 61 In 1942 he was released from the camp. He survived the war. He passed away in 2016.

The Russia-Reform link begins to surface.

26 September 1896 | A Polish woman, Rozalia Szczerbińska, was born in Czernelica. A tailor. In #Auschwitz from 12 December 1942. No. 26773 She perished in the camp on 30 July 1943. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

Whatever part of the political spectrum you're one, you have to respect the fact that Campbell beat O.J. Simpson in a 100m race.

Meanwhile today, absolutely appalling figures on sexual harassment in UK Higher Education, including the nauseating finding that fully ONE PERCENT of all students have been in an "intimate relationship" with a staff member involved in their assessment, IN THE LAST YEAR ALONE.