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From the photographs of Willi Georg: A starving child on a street in the Warsaw ghetto. June 1941.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Born in Auschwitz - Angela Orosz 1/n Her mother Velska was three months pregnant and when she was rounded up by the Nazis and taken to the camp. When she and her husband arrived in May 1944, she along with the Jewish people were immediately separated by gender.

Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.

Eva Heyman - The Hungarian Anne Frank 1/n Eva Heyman was born in Nagyvarad, Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) in 1933. Eva began her diary in February 1944 and ended it in May. She was deported to Auschwitz a short time later, and was gassed on 17 October 1944.

In a letter that Jewish boy Hans Ament sent from Izieu to his mother in a sanatorium, the ten-year-old wrote: "100,000,000 big kisses from your son who is always thinking of you." On 30 May 1944 he was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz where he was murdered.

Trzebinia, Chrzanów District, Kraków Region, Poland 1/n On the eve of WWII, about 1,500 Jews lived in Trzebinia (Yiddish: Chebin), a community bubbling with Chassidic life and Torah learning, Zionism and a pioneering spirit, political parties and youth movements.

Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald. She became famous as "The Witch of Buchenwald". 🧵 1/n

Gerhard Kretschmar, baby victim of the T4 Nazi euthanasia program Murdered on 25 July 1939 1/n On 14 July 1933, the Nazi government instituted the “Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases". People with disabilities were sterilised from this point on.

Marco Rubio: "Let me explain this in simple English: Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.” That statement would have so much more gravitas if Rubio's own country wasn't also run by religious fanatic lunatics.

The projections by the U.N. climate agency and Britain’s Meteorological Office said there’s a 75% chance the average global temperature between 2026 and 2030 will exceed the agreed-upon global limit for warming.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Vasco Gargalo’s narcissist: vain and empty headed.

The story of a French village and its Pastor who saved over 3,000 Jews from persecution 1/n Through an extraordinary campaign of non-violent resistance during World War II, residents of LE CHAMBON-SUR-LIGNON saved thousands of Jews from deportation and certain death.

The #Righteous during World War Two GUSTAV SCHRÖDER: The German Sea Captain Of The “Voyage Of The Damned” In May 1939, the ship St. Louis set off from Hamburg en route to the Americas. But this was no normal voyage. 🧵

Child survivors of Buchenwald from Block 66. 1/n In January 1945, a children's block was set up at Barracks 66 at the lower end of the Little Camp. This place ended up sparing the lives of hundreds of young people and children.

1/n As in the rest of occupied Europe, compulsory wearing of the yellow badge was enforced from 27 May 1942. The Belgian version of the badge depicted a black letter "J" (standing for both "Juif" in French and "Jood" in Dutch) in the centre of a yellow star of David.

Ivanhorod, Ukraine, German Order Police execute a Jewish woman, clutching a child in her arms. 1942. 1/3 The Holocaust By Bullets represents the first phase of the Holocaust in which an estimated 1.5 million Jews were shot to death at close range in ravines, open fields, and forests.

Clarence B. Jones, one of the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an epic speech, has died.

Tom Hanks delivers captivating stories in his new WWII series! Three episodes just dropped. Don't miss out! #WWIITV #TomHanks #History #Movies #GeekNews https://ftwr.cloud/en/news/61e7ac6d-24ee-4166-95b1-760b4b4ce775

Anne Frank’s diary FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1944 1/n I've asked myself again and again whether it wouldn't have been better if we hadn't gone into hiding, if we were dead now and didn't have to go through this misery, especially so that the others could be spared the burden.

Belgian prisoner in German slave labor camp at Nordhausen, Germany, at time of liberation by U.S. Army, 1945

War trauma Teresa Adwentowska lived in Warsaw during Nazi occupation and during the Warsaw uprising. She was put into a home for traumatised children. She was asked to draw what home looked like and this is what she drew.

1/n The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document, donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier. The date of this transport's arrival was the morning of May 26, 1944.

“Never Again”: The Jews of Thessaloniki and the Holocaust 1/n Between 15 March and 10 August 1943, over 40,000 members of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki were rounded up by occupying German forces and deported to the notorious death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Lale Sokolov - The Tattooist of Auschwitz - and his secret love 🧵 1/n In April 1942, Lale Sokolov was deported to Auschwitz as part of the Slovak government's participation in the Holocaust.

A tale of two brains … youtu.be/SZ6mVumHY9I?...

Every band has a lead singer 😉

Spoke with Mark Carney to congratulate him on his election. It was the perfect opportunity to reaffirm the strength of the 🇪🇺🇨🇦 bond and the many opportunities that lie ahead. We discussed how to build on the success of CETA and agreed to explore deeper cooperation on defence and economic security.

Why should we not forget the Holocaust? 🧵 1/n Because it was one of the most horrific crimes in human history. Because it was committed by one of the most advanced countries in the world, disproving the idea that more advanced societies are inherently more moral than less advanced societies.

On May 4, 1940, Rudolf Höss was appointed commander of Auschwitz. That’s it.

In 1928 Mátyás Seiber (born #OTD in 1905) became director of the jazz department at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt offering the first academic jazz courses. It was closed by the Nazis in 1933 so Seiber left Germany eventually settling in London. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Why should we not forget the Holocaust? 🧵 1/n Because it was one of the most horrific crimes in human history. Because it was committed by one of the most advanced countries in the world, disproving the idea that more advanced societies are inherently more moral than less advanced societies.

Thank you for sharing your truth, Airyn ❤️ You have our support.

Deborah Maarsen (83) overleefde drie concentratiekampen: "Mij krijg je er niet onder"

May 3, 1942 All Jews aged 6 years and older in the Netherlands were required to wear a yellow hexagonal star on their clothing 🧵 1/n The Star of David was introduced almost everywhere in the Nazi Empire. How did this introduction of the Star of David work? As of the 1940s,

03.05.1943 | "So, tomorrow at 7 o’ clock, I’ll be leaving with the ghost train." Leo Salomon wrote a heartbreaking letter to his 2 sons after he heard he was to be deported [to Sobibor] the next day "Now everything is over and I'll go to an unknown world where I will hear nothing more from you"👇🏼 1/6

Julius Schloß (born #OTD in 1902) was Jewish composer working in Vienna who was briefly interned at the Dachau concentration camp in 1938 and was exiled to Shanghai. He later emigrated to the United States but found it difficult to find his feet musically. www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

“I beg of you, love her like a mother, so that she feels my absence less keenly. Don't tell her where I am. I am sure that there is much courage in her young soul, and many unanswered questions.” Isabella Fodor's Last Letter Kolosvar, May 3, 1944 🧵 1/n

Congratulations to @albomp.bsky.social and his party on their victory in the Australian federal election. Europeans and Australians are not just friends – we’re mates.

On this day in 1945, a 28 year old Polish man perished in the Bay of Lübeck on the SS Cap Arcona. Having been imprisoned in Auschwitz he had been transferred to another camp. The ship was sunk by the RAF. His name was Henryk Stepek Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

Today, on World Press Freedom Day, we honour the women and men who dedicate their lives to the truth. They work tirelessly to keep us well-informed. They hold power to account. They speak up. They challenge the status quo. And sometimes they pay the ultimate price for it.

Wer waren die Häftlinge, die auf der #CapArcona ums Leben kamen? Zwei Straßen tragen in #Malchin die Namen von Walter Block und Karl Dressel: www.nordkurier.de/regional/mec...

We don’t like countless international days — but this one matters. 🥳 A free press protects us, and our democracy. Support journalists. Support your media. Buy newspapers. ✍🏼📰 #PressFreedomDay

On May 3, 1945, the Cap Arcona was bombed by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay 1/n In early May 1945, the SS loaded some 9,000-10,000 prisoners—most of them evacuated from Neuengamme and its subcamps—onto three ships anchored in the Baltic Sea off the coast of

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Putin in 2025: "Nationalism is the first stage on the way to Nazism." Putin in 2014: "The biggest nationalist in Russia is me." The shoe fits.

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In 1942, pianist Norbert Stern (born #OTD 1922) left the Brussels Conservatory to go into hiding and was arrested with his family and sent to Auschwitz in Jan 1944. Not much later he was killed in Birkenau aged just 21 years old. holocaustmusic.ort.o...