Thread by @NUSDSC

Here is a video from @Piers42, your Disabled Students' Officer, highlighting why for them it is especially important to commemorate #HolocaustMemorialDay. We must remember and know our history.
The links Piers mentions are in the thread below, they only had 30 seconds!

What was the Brandenberg Centre? It was the euthanasia centre created by the Nazi's in 1939 under the Aktion T4 program (Action or Operation T4) , which euthanised disabled people under the rhetoric of burden. Read more here: holocaustresearchproject.org/euthan/branden…

What was T4 (or T-4)? It was the euthanisia program that targeted disabled people. The underlying rhetoric that led to the creation of Aktion T4 were based on burden, forced sterilisation, and purity. Read more here: holocaustresearchproject.org/euthan/t4.html

It is important to recognise that both Nazi Germany and the majority of the United States both had forced sterilisation laws targeting disabled people by the mid 1930s.
The US Supreme Court decision "presaged the arguments used later to justify eugenic killings in Nazi Germany".

It is important to remember individuals in our history, so we will be sharing links some of the stories of the disabled people impacted by this specific part of the Holocaust. We want to thank @HMD_UK for having such in-depth resources on the lives of these individuals.

Helene, a disabled woman forcibly institutionalised after being diagnosed as schizophrenic: hmd.org.uk/resource/helen…

A big barrier to knowing exactly what happened is even at the time, even parents didn't know. Anna Lehnkering, who's story was pieced together by Sigrid Falkenstein, a descendent.
hmd.org.uk/resource/anna-…

As our final tweet on this thread, we would just like to reinforce that we must remember our history and the remember those that have been lost to atrocities during and since the Holocaust. Also, Student Unions and disabled students, get involved in #HolocaustMemorialDay.