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04.05.1943 | Post van Leo aan zijn lieve jongens vanuit de spooktrein van @kampwesterbork naar #Sobibor: "Ik hoop het beste voor jullie ik zal moed houden en altijd aan jullie denken. Jullies vader is altijd in het hart bij jullie." #transport10 #DaglieveLeo Wie was Leo? 👇🏼/1 Image
Leo is een echte Maastrichtenaar en heeft 2 broers en 1 zus. Louis gaat via @Kamp_Amersfoort naar @AuschwitzMuseum. Max wordt net als Leo in #Sobibor vermoord. Tilly overleefd de oorlog, net als zijn moeder Rosalie. /2 Image
De alleenstaande vader Leo heeft 2 zonen uit zijn huwelijk met de niet-joodse Getrud Meuer (gesch. 1937). Hij bezit een textielzaak aan de Grote Gracht in Maastricht. Emiel woont bij de schoonfamilie van zijn zus, Slagerij Drielsma op Grote Gracht 23 en Jackie bij zijn moeder./3 Image
Op 25 augustus 1942 moet Leo zich, net als de bevriende Familie Isaack, vóór 16 u melden bij politie in #Maastricht en wordt hij voor de 1e maal gearresteerd en overgebracht naar Westerbork.
De Isaacks worden vandaar direct doorgestuurd naar Auschwitz en vermoord. /4 Image
Na één week wordt Leo weer vrijgelaten vanuit @kampwesterbork vanwege de zorg voor zijn 2 zoons en keert hij huiswaarts naar #Maastricht.
Op 11 november 1942 wordt Leo voor de 2e keer gearresteerd na vermoedelijk te zijn verraden door een NSB'er. /5 Image
Op 4 mei 1943 is Leo één van de 1187 gedeporteerden die met het 10e transport naar Sobibor gaat. Hij gooit voordat hij bij Nieuweschans Nederland verlaat, zijn laatste groet uit de trein om zijn kinderen hoop te laten houden. Hij weet waarschijnlijk beter wat zijn lot is... /6 Image
Op 7 mei 1943 wordt Leo Salomon direct na aankomst vermoord in vernietigingskamp #Sobibor... /7 Image

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07.01.1921 | ❤ Jules Schelvis, whose birthday we commemorate today, founded the Sobibor Foundation 25 years ago. We owe it in large part to him that the world is now aware of #Sobibor. He made it his life's work with the motto: You must pass on these stories. A long thread👇🏼1/18 Image
2/18 Jules was born on Jan. 7, 1921, the 2nd child of Jewish parents who went through life as humanists and members of the Social Democratic Workers Party (SDAP). Some Jewish traditions were maintained. He experienced his childhood in a diamond workers' family under varying financial circumstances during the crisis years of the last century as a happy one, especially because in addition to always having bread on the table, there was a focus on culture and science.Image
3/18 Jules was the son of diamond worker Jacob Schelvis and Esther Schelvis-Papegaaij. His father perished in an outside camp at Sachenhausen. His mother and sister Milly survived Bergen-Belsen and Beendorf. That the versatile boy from Amsterdam's Rapenburg, became a historian was not only determined by the history of the twentieth century. Schooling and cultural development were cherished and encouraged by the social democrats, but more than the three-year HBS (high school), as Jules himself had so desired, was out of the question: he had to start earning for the family and became a printer.Image
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21.12.1922 | 🕯 Remembering Doris Mak. She, like her brother, was born in Malmö. Since 1921 her father worked here for the Jewish community and was a ritual butcher. He was born in the Czech Republic. Her mother in Poland. In 1927, the family moved to Meent 94c in Rotterdam.👇🏼1/5 Image
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21.11.1932 | 🕯 No photograph of David Juda van der Velde has survived. The Germans erased all his tracks. However, in 2021, during archaeological excavations in Sobibor, the nameplate of 10 y/o David was found at the site of the barracks of the Sonderkommando in Lager III. 👇🏼1/7 Image
What was David thinking about on April 2, 1943 just before he was killed? Was it of his childhood home at 5-II President Brand Street? Was he thinking of his happy childhood in the Transvaal neighborhood? 2/7 Image
The Pres. Brandstraat is in the Transvaal neighborhood, a 1920s neighborhood between the railroad and the Ringvaart canal, a very Jewish neighborhood of the city before WW2. The houses in the Transvaal neighborhood were new; so there was heating, running water and a toilet. 3/7 Image
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In May 2023, 80 years after her deportation, Sophia Engelsman-Huisman (97), the last survivor of #Sobibor, passed away. She also survived Aktion Erntefest, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Raguhn (Buchenwald) & Theresienstadt. Sophia's life is a testament to strength and survival.👇🏼1/17 Image
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The Huisman family's home at Goudsestraat 64a, Rotterdam, was destroyed by German bombings on May 14, 1940. They then relocated to Middenhoefstraat 15. They are religious and faithfully attend synagogue and at the same time are fully integrated into the Rotterdam. 3/17 Image
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In late Sept. 1943, a transport from Minsk arrived in #Sobibor. Among them was Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky, who survived the selection. His presence gave new impetus to the escape plans of Leon Felhendler. Who was this underground leader of Sobibor? 👇🏼1/8 Image
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Oct. 14 marks the 80th anniversary of the #Sobibor uprising. Without Sasha Pechersky, that uprising probably would not have happened. Who was he? Alexander Pechersky, son of a Jewish lawyer, was born Feb. 22, 1909, in Kremenchuk, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Long thread 👇🏼 1/16 Image
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Pechersky was fond of theater and worked in a theater studio, where he met his future wife, Lyudmila Vasilyeyna. In 1933 they married. 3/16 Image
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