Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillCowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Transport AAh was a deportation train leaving Prague on June 10, 1942, carrying 1,000 Jews to Sobibor. AaH stood for Attentat aus Heydrich (Attentat against Heydrich), as it departed just days after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. It was organized as a retaliatory or punitive transport. 171
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillCowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026World War Two - occupied France Just before his execution, Jean Quarré, French professional football player and resistant, sticks his tongue out for the Nazi photographer. Courage until the very end. He was 22. #History 0144
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillCowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Forbidden art in Auschwitz - Franciszek Jaźwiecki 🧵 1/n Jaźwiecki was employed in the extermination camp’s carpentry workshop and paint shop. Creating art was not allowed in Auschwitz and was treated by the SS as an act of resistance. 184
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 17h"Holocaust survivor Irene Butter travelled around the world until the end to warn of hatred and exclusion." Irene Butter passed away at the age of 95. Soon, there will be nobody left anymore 💔 051
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillCowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“When I perish, do not allow my pictures to die with me. Show them to the people.” Felix Nussbaum (11 December 1904 – 9 August 1944) 🧵 1/n When Belgium and the Netherlands were occupied in May 1940, Felix was arrested in his apartment and, like 2156
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillCowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 30/09/20261/2 “If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we’ll have to fight again we wouldn’t have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? […] I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn’t. 363
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 20h‘The Theresienstadt family camp in Auschwitz’ The great deception. 1/n Theresienstadt ghetto in the Czech lands was a site of imprisonment for Jews. It served as a transit ghetto and an old-age ghetto. The Nazis used Theresienstadt as a deceptive propaganda tool to trick international observers. 163
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillHuman Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 23hThe lack of courage and political leadership in today's society is the result of rampant puritanism. In today's world, Churchill would be labeled an alcoholic, deemed problematic, and dismissed as unfit for public life. 2143
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“When I perish, do not allow my pictures to die with me. Show them to the people.” Felix Nussbaum (11 December 1904 – 9 August 1944) 🧵 1/n When Belgium and the Netherlands were occupied in May 1940, Felix was arrested in his apartment and, like 2156
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 02/10/20262 October 1919 | A Dutch Jew, Jacob Vogel, was born in Amsterdam. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 17 July 1942 in a transport of 2,000 Jews deported from #Westerbork. No. 48420 He perished in the camp on 18 August 1942. --- Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en 925558
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths". 894298269743
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In case you were still wondering how Trump’s approval remains at 35%, despite his continuous rambling like a toddler and posting deranged AI images, here’s the answer. 041
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026Take It or Leave It review – vividly atmospheric formative adventures of future pop princes Madnesstheguardian.comTake It or Leave It review – vividly atmospheric formative adventures of future pop princes MadnessDocufictional 1981 comedy captures the working-class ska-pop pranksters in their hungry years with an almost Loachian authenticity 5515
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Forbidden art in Auschwitz - Franciszek Jaźwiecki 🧵 1/n Jaźwiecki was employed in the extermination camp’s carpentry workshop and paint shop. Creating art was not allowed in Auschwitz and was treated by the SS as an act of resistance. 184
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026World War Two - occupied France Just before his execution, Jean Quarré, French professional football player and resistant, sticks his tongue out for the Nazi photographer. Courage until the very end. He was 22. #History 0144
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillCowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🧵 “First of all, they came to take the gypsies and I was happy because they pilfered. Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing, because they were unpleasant to me. Then they came to take homosexuals, and I was relieved, because they were annoying me. 162
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillDwight Miller @navyvet80.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Here are unedited photos of Trump's big ancient fat ass is wearing something poorly hidden in his baggy pants and I'll fittin suit from these angles which does prove he's wearing what looks like industrial strength adult diapers. He looks like an obese human turd no matter what he's wearing. 💙🇺🇲💙 111
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillCowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Paragraph 175 1/n On June 28, 1935, Hitler sanctioned the revision of Paragraph 175, a portion of the German Penal Code that had been on the books since 1871. Paragraph 175 originally prohibited “unnatural fornication, whether between 1114
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillNBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/10/2026A pilot stabbed his co-pilot aboard a plane headed to Israel on Wednesday and may have tried to crash the aircraft with 174 people on board, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Passengers and crewmembers intervened to prevent the plane from crashing, Israeli officials say. 7204
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 01/10/20261 October 1890 | A German, Walter Peters, was born in Nakel (today Nakło nad Notecią in Poland). A doctor. In #Auschwitz from 10 October 1941. No 21409 He perished on 15 October 1941. He was imprisoned in Auschwitz for homosexuality (paragraph 175): lekcja.auschwitz.org/paragraf_175_en 1042788
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🧵 “First of all, they came to take the gypsies and I was happy because they pilfered. Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing, because they were unpleasant to me. Then they came to take homosexuals, and I was relieved, because they were annoying me. 162
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hello all of you I’m back. While on X, I was vilified by the far right for being an antifascist. While on Threads, I was vilified for standing up for the victims. Let’s see what happens next. 770
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#OTD 30 September 1928, Elie Wiesel was born 1/n Born in Sighet, Romania, Elie Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was forced into Nazi death camps during WWII. Wiesel survived, and later wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir Night. 162
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 30/09/20261/2 “If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we’ll have to fight again we wouldn’t have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? […] I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn’t. 363
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 01/06/2026From the photographs of Willi Georg: A starving child on a street in the Warsaw ghetto. June 1941. 1104
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026I’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.” 380153195989
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Born 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. 373
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillQuebecoiswolf 🔜 Furpoc @quebecoiswolf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Being 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. 21677851475
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Eva 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. 393
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 30/05/2026In 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. 052
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Trzebinia, 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. 140
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Ilse 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 164
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Gerhard 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. 143
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillNBC News @nbcnews.com · 28/05/2026The 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.nbcnews.toThink it’s hot now? The next five years will smash records, U.N. saysThe 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. 53615
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno Billmweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Portuguese editorial cartoonist Vasco Gargalo’s narcissist: vain and empty headed. 201479395
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillCowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The 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. 2206
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillCowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The #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. 🧵 2205
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Child 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. 141
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 27/05/20261/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. 161
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Ivanhorod, 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. 141
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno BillNBC News @nbcnews.com · 26/05/2026Clarence B. Jones, one of the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an epic speech, has died.nbcnews.toClarence B. Jones, civil rights activist who helped write MLK’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, dies at 95Jones was one of the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the epic speech and helped push for the passage of the Voting Rights Act. 79247
Reposted by Cowboy Tcherno Billwww.ftwr.cloud @ftwrcloud.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Tom Hanks delivers captivating stories in his new WWII series! Three episodes just dropped. Don't miss out! #WWIITV #TomHanks #History #Movies #GeekNews ftwr.cloud/en/news/61e7ac6d-24ee-41…ftwr.cloudTom Hanks Launches Epic WWII Series with Three New EpisodesTom Hanks delivers captivating stories in his new WWII series! Three episodes just dropped. Don't miss out! #WWIITV #TomHanks #History 012
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Anne 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. 2112
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Belgian prisoner in German slave labor camp at Nordhausen, Germany, at time of liberation by U.S. Army, 1945 141
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026War 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. 131
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 26/05/20261/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. 373
Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 16/03/2026“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. 193
