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Israel War Room @iwr.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

Want to talk heartbreaking and outrageous? 52 Israeli civilians have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists (many from Jenin) in the past year. Want to rage over what tax dollars pay for? The US gives the PA hundreds of millions of $$ a year and the PA uses it to pay terrorists to murder Israelis.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🎶 palate cleanser 🎶

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Arthur Normanson @artstop.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This transition from post 3 to 4 seems to be missing something

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

3/n ordered an immediate reprisal, consisting of a series of arrests of random Polish males, aged 16 to 70, found in the region where the killings occurred (in Wawer & the neighboring Anin villages). After a kangaroo court presided over by Major General Friedrich Wilhelm Wenzl,

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

2/n ("living space"). On the evening of 26 December, two known Polish criminals, Marian Prasuła and Stanisław Dąbek, killed two German non-commissioned officers from Baubataillon 538. After learning of it, the acting commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Warsaw, colonel Max Daume

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Poland - The Wawer Massacre 1/n From the start, the war against Poland was intended to be the fulfilment of a plan described by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf. The main gist of the plan was for all of Eastern Europe to become part of a Greater Germany, the German 'Lebensraum'

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

7/7 Adolf Althoff died in 1998 at the age of 85.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

6/n They knew that the circus could be searched at any moment and that their employees could betray them. Fortunately, Adolf had contacts in nearly every city who usually warned him of pending searches. Despite a few close calls, Irene, Alice, and Gerda all survived the war.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

5/n Though Irene’s grandmother was deported, her mother, Alice, and her sister, Gerda, escaped to the safety of the Althoff circus. The Althoffs agreed to provide refuge for Alice and Gerda as well. Adolf and Maria were fully aware of the dangers associated with hiding Jews.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

4/n acrobat, Peter Storm-Bento. When she later became pregnant, Adolf and Maria ensured that she received adequate medical care. On March 20, 1942, deportations from Darmstadt began, followed by additional deportations in September 1942 and February 1943. Photos: Irene Danner

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

3/n that including a Jew in the circus was prohibited, he offered Irene a position, provided her with a pseudonym and false identity papers, and essentially disguised her Jewish identity for the duration of the war. During her time in the circus, Irene fell in love with another

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

2/n approximately 90 performers, traveled throughout Europe and spent the summer of 1941 near Darmstadt. At one particular show, Irene Danner, a young Jewish acrobat from Darmstadt, was among the visitors. She was a descendant of a German-Jewish circus family. Although Adolf knew

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Rescue In A Circus Adolf and Maria Althoff #Righteous during World War Two 1/n Darmstadt, Germany… Summer 1941 – Adolf Althoff and his wife, Maria, directed the well-known Althoff circus during World War II. The circus, which included

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

2/2 Hé was awarded special protection by Hitler who personally intervened to ensure his safety following the annexation of Austria in 1938. Following Kristallnacht and anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany, Hitler allowed Bloch to emigrate to the United States, where he lived until his death in 1945.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

1/2 Dr. Eduard Bloch (1872 – 1945) was a Jewish Austrian doctor from Linz, who, for years until 1907, was the family doctor of Adolf Hitler and his family. When Hitler's mother, Klara, was dying of breast cancer, Bloch billed the family at a reduced cost and sometimes refused to bill them outright.

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Brandon Campbell @brandcamp.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thinking about giving myself a staycation for a few days. Is that even possible for wfh self-employed artist? Am I allowed to draw? 🤔

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Nubster & Baby Mona @nubster13.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

8/8 be ours in an hour, and which for five minutes, until we have devoured it, will form everything that the law of the place allows us to possess." Primo Levi

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

7/n "A day begins like every day, so long as not to allow us reasonably to conceive its end, so much cold, so much hunger, so much exhaustion separates us from it: so that it is better to concentrate one’s attention on the block of grey bread, which is small but will certainly

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

6/n their act of budding humanity is made even more poignant by the fact that they are not only offering something of value, but risking their own wellbeing to show their appreciation.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

5/n automatically means a surplus of food as well, keeping one further from starvation than their comrades. When, at the end of the story, surviving prisoners of the infection ward elect to reward Levi, Arthur, and Charles’s foraging with portions of their own ration of bread,

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

4/n between buying clothing or tools with their bread to better resist the cold, or eating it and briefly forgetting their hunger. Thus, the amount of bread that a prisoner possesses directly reflects his own wealth, and thus his wellbeing, since a surplus of such wealth

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

3/n sustenance, the only substantive food the prisoners are ever fed, along with a watery bowl of soup. The rations of bread are never enough to sate one’s hunger, meaning that if a prisoner is not enterprising enough to gather additional bread and thus wealth, they must choose

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

2/n prisoner who is a skilled organizer or investor will have a surplus of bread, while a prisoner who is not will only possess his single ration for as long as he can resist the temptation to eat it. Although it is a unit of wealth, bread is also the prisoner’s primary mode of

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Survival in Auschwitz - BREAD Thread 1/n As the only possession technically allowed to the prisoners, bread represents a prisoner’s wealth, value, and wellbeing. In the illicit exchange market, bread functions as the base unit of value, measured in single rations. Thus, a

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

“We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still posses one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last – the power to refuse our consent.” Primo Levi

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Arthur Normanson @artstop.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Loved it from when it first aired. The montage of Keach as your father with the music from The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father still makes me laugh whenever i think of it.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

6/6 He was convinced he recognized his father in the man photographed while until now the latter had been given for dead in Upper Silesia.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

5/n The newspaper said "Never forget". Under the article, the title read: “Ballad of the one who sings under torture” followed by a poem. Dozens of witnesses of the period were heard but in September 1984, Jean Blind made contact. He was George's son.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

4/n After this photograph, he was deported to Auschwitz. He arrived in the camp on December 20 and died on December 25 that year. It was the newspaper "Jeune Alsace" in its May 1945 issue that was to be the first to publish the photo of Georges Blind.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

3/n today. All we know is that it was taken between October 15 & 23, 1944 in Belfort. Contrary to common belief, Georges Blind, a fireman, did not die by the guns of the Germans. The execution was staged in an attempt to make him betray his comrades, which he never did.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

2/n This historic photograph has been subject of extensive research, in particular by Christophe Grudler, who for 12 years gathered all the pieces necessary to retrace the history of one of the most famous photos in the world. The author of this historic photo is still unknown

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

His name was Georges Blind, but the world knows him as “The Smiling Shot” (Le fusillé souriant) 1/n It took until the 1980s to give a name to this man, hitherto unknown, smiling at his firing squad in an exceptional photograph published for the first time in May 1945.

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Arthur Normanson @artstop.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Didn’t know about anyone biting a Nazi’s nose. Typically the story starts and ends with Franceska.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

6/6 fought back with everything they had. One woman reportedly bit off a guard’s nose, as machine gun fire tore through the room. It lasted minutes. If that. Most of the women lay dead, those that weren’t were taken outside and shot. But their story lived on.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

5/n to approach. Then quick as a flash, Franceska attacked, using her high heel to beat a guard down. Seizing his gun, she shot. Killing Josef Schillinger and wounding Wilhelm Emmerich. As the other SS guards bore down on the vulnerable women, they followed Franceska’s lead and

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

4/n gas chamber and told to strip. As the women undressed, the SS Guards, including Schillinger and Emmerich watched, their gaze soon honing in on Franceska. She noticed them watching and looked them directly in the eye. She lent down to take off her shoe and the men started

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

3/n A dancer at a night club in Warsaw, she was known for her talent and beauty. It was this that caught the attention of two of Auschwitz’s SS guards, Josef Schillinger and Wilhelm Emmerich. Along with a large group of women, Franceska was led to the undressing room next to the

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

2/n That dark October day, Franceska, along with 1,700 over Polish Jewish people was dragged off a transit train and pushed through the gates of Auschwitz. Franceska knew the odds, knew her time was up and she refused to go quietly into the night. Franceska Mann was exceptional.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Franceska Mann and the myth of The Dancer of Auschwitz 1/n On October 23 1943, 26 year old ballerina, Franceska Mann, transformed. Overnight she became the stuff of legend. Not through her deft pointe work or an ovation worthy performance, but because of her death.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

4/4 In 1943, Else Ury was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was murdered upon her arrival. Photo: Else Ury’s suitcase, from the day she arrived at Auschwitz and was murdered there.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

3/n Else Ury was a member of the German middle class. She was pulled between patriotic German citizenship and Jewish cultural heritage. This situation is reflected in her writings, although the Nesthäkchen books make no references to Judaism.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

2/n The books, the six-part TV series Nesthäkchen (1983), based on the first 3 volumes, as well as the DVD edition caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers. During Ury's lifetime Nesthäkchen und der Weltkrieg (Nesthäkchen and the World War), the fourth volume, was the most popular.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Else Ury (1 November 1877 – 13 January 1943) 1/n was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful Nesthäkchen series.

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Arthur Normanson @artstop.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I would think that she walked in at that time, Giving up whatever time she might have had, to accompany her child. Just as they accompanied her husband/his father. Within the constraints of the Holocaust, she chose her fate. Do not diminish her charity for her son (or the others she comforted).

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

5/5 It is said that Ilse sang to her son and many other children as she accompanied them voluntarily into the gas chambers.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

4/n accompany herself on guitar while she sang her lullaby-like songs to children and elderly of the ghetto. When her husband was deported to Auschwitz 2 years later, she and Tommy went with him so as not to break up their family.

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