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Feb 1

Vichy and Jewish children
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1942: more than six thousand Jewish children are deported to Auschwitz. Because Vichy wants to get rid of useless and embarrassing "orphans" whose parents have already gone to the death camps.

2/n Of all the events of the Holocaust, few are more horrifying than the Nazi murder of over a million Jewish children. Throughout Europe, and not only in the immense charnel ground that had become the east of the continent, the German authorities hunted down the most innocent

3/n victims imaginable, and of whom several hundred thousand were to make the terrible journey to death factories on Polish territory. But even in this circumstance, in what constitutes the most revolting crime of Hitlerism, accomplices were found everywhere to lend him a hand.

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Jan 31

Florence Waren (aka Sadie Rigal)

Hiding in the Spotlight
The famous Jewish dancer in Nazi-occupied Paris
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(Edith Piaf flanked by Frederic Apcar and Florence Waren)

2/n She was born Sadie Rigal in Johannesburg on March 28, 1917, one of seven children. Her father was a traveling salesman for a department store. Her mother, who had been a teacher in New York, had a breakdown after the death of her youngest son during an influenza epidemic

3/n in 1919 and was committed to a mental hospital in South Africa. Mr. Rigal raised the family alone.
But how Sadie Rigal became Florence, one-half of the famous dancing duo “Florence et Frederic” and a Jewish star in Nazi-occupied Paris, is more complicated. At the urging of

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Jan 23

The #Righteous amongs ud
Mikas & Elena Lukauskas
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Following the "children's Aktion" of March 1944 in the Kovno ghetto, which their children miraculously survived, it was clear to Leah and Shimon Joselevich

2/n that 9-year-old Chana and 5-year-old Petya could no longer remain in the ghetto. They began to desperately search for a safe haven for their two children. An acquaintance was willing to take them for a limited time – she was already hiding the daughter of her former neighbor

3/n – and eventually handed the children to Mikas and Elena Lukauskas. The two children arrived at their rescuers' home with a letter from Leah and Shimon, thanking the unknown rescuers for accepting their children. Chana and Petya stayed with their

Leah and Shimon Joselevich

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Jan 22

The story of the Apeldoornsche Bosch
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Jewish psychiatric institution 'The Apeldoornsche Bosch' has gone down in history as a location where a terrible war drama took place.
#OTD in January 2023 it is 80 years since the institution was evacuated by the Germans in World War II.

2/n More than 1300 Jews were taken to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.
The Apeldoornsche Bosch was a Jewish psychiatric institution, located on the Zutphensestreet in Apeldoorn from 1909 to 1943. At first it seemed that the Nazis would leave Apeldoornsche Bosch alone.

3/n That is why the institution in Apeldoorn was also called 'Jews' heaven'.
On Wednesday, January 20, 1943, the Ordedienst of Camp Westerbork appeared. A freight train with 40 wagons was prepared at Apeldoorn station. Half of the staff fled that night and went into hiding.

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Jan 22

1/n #OTD
THE MARSEILLE ROUNDUP was the systematic deportation of the Jews of Marseille in the Old Port between 22 and 24 January 1943 under the Vichy regime during the German occupation of France. Assisted by the French police, directed by René Bousquet, the Germans organized a

2/n raid to arrest Jews. The police checked the identity documents of 40,000 people, and the operation sent 2,000 Jews first to Fréjus, then to the camp of Royallieu near Compiègne, in the Northern Zone of France, and then to Drancy internment camp, last stop before the

3/n extermination camps. The operation also encompassed the expulsion of an entire neighborhood (30,000 persons) before its destruction.
The operation was intended to reshape the area of the Old Port, a popular neighborhood whose small streets were considered dangerous by the

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Jan 22

@AuschwitzMuseum

@AuschwitzMuseum 1/n World War II, 1943, Amsterdam. The German occupiers used the Hollandse Schouwburg (Dutch Theater) in Amsterdam as a gathering place for Jews. From there they would 'go on transport' to a concentration camp. The Germans had made these concentration camps to kill the Jews.

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@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n But at that time almost no one knew about the existence of concentration camps. Opposite the Hollandse Schouwburg was a crèche where Henriëtte Pimentel looked after the Jewish children during the day. A place where the children could forget the war for a while.

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@AuschwitzMuseum 3/n Together with Walter Susskind and Felix Halverstad, they suspected that something terrible was in store for the Jews. So they devised a clever and dangerous plan. By forging papers, they were able to make the children 'disappear' under the eyes of the Germans. That took a lot

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