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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 10h

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

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

September 27, 1942 | The Parysów ghetto in German-occupied Poland is liquidated. Its 3,500 inhabitants, including 2,000 refugees, are deported to Treblinka Death Camp. @yadvashem Photo Archives.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Vilnius was once called the Jerusalem of the North. 76 years ago, on September 23-24, 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.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On 23rd September 1943, the Vilnius Ghetto was liquidated. Over 95% of Lithuanian Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. May their memory be a blessing🕯️

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Teachers and students at the Jewish school in Sirvintos, Lithuania, May 4, 1938. In August 1941 all the Jews were transferred to the ghetto. On September 18 of that same year they were all killed in the Pivonija forest. Colorized photograph.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Nazi regime enacted the Nuremberg Laws on September 15th 1935, creating the legal framework for the systematic persecution of German Jews. For Bob Behr and his family, the message was clear: "We don't want you."

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#OTD 11 September 1942 5 weeks after having been torn from his mother’s arms, 2 year old Richard Frenkel was deported to #Auschwitz, on a wagon full of strangers. His parents had already been murdered in Auschwitz. Learn more about his family here ow.ly/pV1K50w2kpt

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Polish Jew Szmul Lewi Wajnsztejn was born in Sokołów. A tailor. During the war he lived in France. He arrived in a deportation at Auschwitz on 30 June 1942. Prisoner No 43667. He perished in the camp on 18 August 1942.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"A Jew ... went out to buy a doll for his little girl, but on the way home he was arrested and interned in Drancy.” #OTD 20 August 1941, 3,000 Jews were arrested in France in a sudden operation, undertaken with joint French-German collaboration More: ow.ly/9lK650PAzMz

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yet again we see that Jewish passivity in the Holocaust was a myth. The children pictured below survived thanks to the efforts of Jewish resistance fighters Marianne Cohn & Mila Racine. The photo was taken #OTD 18 August 1944 in France. ow.ly/prSf50vqLhy

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Wanda Rein married Mordechai Folman #OTD 17th August 1944 in the last wedding to take place in the Lodz Ghetto. One year after they were separated at Auschwitz, Wanda and Mordechai Folman were reunited; in 1950 they immigrated to Israel. Read their story: www.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/...

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This photo shows children standing behind the Lodz ghetto fence #OTD 15 August 1944. In early August 1944, the deportations from Lodz were rerouted from Chelmno to Auschwitz; by the end of the month, about 70,000 Jews from Lodz had been sent to Auschwitz.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#OTD August 10, 1889, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was born. She was a Polish writer and a World War II resistance member. She co-founded two Polish wartime organizations: The Front for the Rebirth of Poland and Żegota, to assist Polish Jews in surviving the Holocaust.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Elisabeth Abegg was a German schoolteacher and resistance fighter against Nazism, who during the Holocaust rescued at least 80 Jews from certain death She was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1967 & died #OTD August, 8, 1974 in Berlin.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#OTD 7 August 1942 Esther Frenkel (Horonczyk) threw a letter from the deportation train ow.ly/KBkV50vnXiz "I am on the train. I do not know what has become of my Richard... Save my child, my innocent baby!" They were separated at Pithiviers & murdered in #Auschwitz

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Stefa Wilczynska, who worked with Janusz Korzcak in his Warsaw orphanage, completely devoted herself to the love & care of her young charges #OTD 5 August 1942, she was deported to Treblinka & murdered, along with Korczak &the children More: ow.ly/7lNX50FHEIj

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Born #OTD 4 August 1912. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg saved thousands of Jews in German occupied Hungary during the Second World War.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My name is Isidore Laks. I was born in Paris in February, 1934 I arrived at Auschwitz on 3 August 1944 in a transport of 1300 Jews deported from Drancy. I did not return.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#OTD 1 August 1944, the Soviet Red Army liberated the city of Kovno. Tragically, the ghetto was liquidated just 3 weeks before liberation. I write about these events in I Am Juden. Over 90% of Jews living in Kovno during the Nazi occupation were murdered during the Holocaust.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#OTD 31 July, 1940 | German police unit publicly abuses and humiliates Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Hagerman in Olkusz, Poland, on “Bloody Wednesday”. The Jews of Olkusz were deported to Auschwitz in 1942, where most of them were murdered.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Jewish prisoners standing to attention in Dachau concentration camp, taken #OTD 30 July 1938.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising while SS-Rottenführer Josef Blösche points a submachine gun in his direction, 1943. Luckily, the boy survived. Blösche was executed in Leipzig #OTD 29 July 1969.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My name is Francine Finkielsztaj. I was born in Paris on July 28th, 1941. In July 1943, I was deported to Auschwitz and separated from my parents. My last memory is being carried into a shower room. Then the room started to fill with gas. Remember us, please.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#OTD 27th July 1941: Wehrmacht documents first steps in the "Holocaust by bullets”. The last picture of the Jews of Mogilev.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

#OTD 26 July 1942 Nazi officer, Albert Battel, ordered the only access to the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl be blocked from the SS effort to liquidate the ghetto. #RighteousAmongstTheNations Read the story & discover the fate of Przemysl's Jews here ow.ly/btzz50vbfH7

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

July 18th 1940, Chiune Sugihara began issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees in Lithuania. I write about this selfless diplomat in I Am Juden. Sugihara's brave efforts during the Holocaust earned him the distinction of Righteous Among the Nations.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Human bones litter the grounds of the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland following its liberation by Soviet forces #OTD July 24, 1944. AFP/Getty Images

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

21 July 1944 | Two prisoners, a Pole Jerzy Bielecki & a Polish Jew Cyla Cybulska escaped #Auschwitz. They were in love. Jerzy managed to get an SS uniform & staged a fake escort. The escape was successful.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

20-year-old Rachel Polakiewicz & her family were imprisoned in the Vel d'Hiv in Part on 16th July 1942. Less than a month later she was murdered in Auschwitz.

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

18 July 1947, Jewish Holocaust survivors, deemed to be “illegal immigrants” by the British government, were removed by soldiers from the ship Exodus upon its arrival in Haifa; the survivors were eventually deported to Germany Learn more: ow.ly/ArQw50JNkXs

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#OTD 17 July 1925 | German Jewish woman Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was born in Breslau (today Wrocław). A cellist. In #Auschwitz from Dec 1943. Member of the female camp orchestra, liberated in Bergen-Belsen. She turns 101 today. Many happy returns dear Anita!

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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stephenuzzell.bsky.social @stephenuzzell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Jewish youth rescued from the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp show their camp tattoos on board a refugee ship #OTD July 15, 1945. Defiance.

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