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Apr 29, 2023, 11 tweets

29.04.1943 | A small Dutch-speaking community in Orange City, Iowa (USA), published #OTD a detailed article in their newspaper, De Volksvriend, just 10 days after the outbreak of the #Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943: "The Extermination of the Jews in Poland". Thread👇🏼/1

Despite being over 7,800 km away from Poland, this article, titled "The Extermination of the Jews in Poland," exposed the atrocities committed by Hitler and the SS. Read the shocking account of the Lublin evacuations, the formation of ghettos, and the Aktion Reinhard camps. /2

Read the full article in English translation as a thread or download the NL/EN text: linktr.ee/sobibor.
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