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#OTD in 1943 a transport of 880 Greek Jews from Thessaloniki arrived in Auschwitz. 582 of them were immediately sent to the gas chambers.
1/n ⬇️
2/n Of the estimated 71,600 Jews who lived in Greece at the time of the 1941 Nazi invasion, at least 58,885 perished in the Holocaust. Most Jews lived in Thessaloniki, formerly known as Salonika, which had been the religious and cultural hub for Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain
3/n in 1492. In February 1943, the Jews of Thessaloniki were given less than a month to move into a ghetto established in the Baron Hirsch quarter, and almost all their property was confiscated. Deportations began in March, and by August, almost all had been deported and murdered
4/n at Auschwitz and Treblinka. Some 54,000 of the approximately 56,000 Jews living in Thessaloniki were murdered in the Holocaust.

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His name was Georges Blind, but the world knows him as "The Smiling Shot" (Le fusillé souriant)
1/n
 It took until the 1980s to give a name to this man, hitherto unknown, smiling at his firing squad in an exceptional photograph published for the first time in May 1945. Image
2/n This historic photograph has been subject of extensive research, in particular by Christophe Grudler, who for 12 years gathered all the pieces necessary to retrace the history of one of the most famous photos in the world.
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3/n today. All we know is that it was taken between October 15 & 23, 1944 in Belfort. Contrary to common belief, Georges Blind, a fireman, did not die by the guns of the Germans. The execution was staged in an attempt to make him betray his comrades, which he never did. Image
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#OnThisDay, June 10th, 1944:

The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre

Oradour-sur-Glane was the site of a particularly brutal atrocity during World War II. The entire village was destroyed and its inhabitants killed by German troops on June 10, 1944, exactly two years after a Image
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1/n Anna Hess, letter about an upcoming deportation to Theresienstadt (June 8, 1943)

"My dear Marthchen!
In the greatest hurry I would like to inform you that today we are setting off after all on the long-planned journey, and I am glad that it is now so far and that one can get Image
2/n out of the eternal anxiety whether one would travel or not. When the long journey is over, everything will be fine, and the hope that I will maybe meet
Rudolf and Lieschen again [illegible material], gives me the courage and strength to overcome everything.
What must be,
3/3 must be and what so many can do, I want to be able to do, too. So for my sake, do not worry at all.
The greatest pain and deprivation is that we do not
hear from each other for such a long time but I do not let go of the hope that we will still meet again."
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The #Righteous during World War Two
Egyptan Dr. Mohammed Helmy saved a Jewish family in Berlin from death in the Holocaust
1/n
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2/n Holocaust memorial as "Righteous Among the Nations" – the highest honor given to a non-Jew for risking great personal dangers to rescue Jews from the Nazis' gas chambers.
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#OTD 9 June 1944 LIDICE was razed to the ground
1/n
 After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Germans unleashed a severe retaliation. Hitler lashed out by murdering thousands of Jews. He wanted to kill 10,000 Czech political prisoners, but high-ranking Nazi ImageImage
2/n Heinrich Himmler convinced him that they needed Czechs to keep the Protectorate industrially productive. Still, more than 13,000 were arrested, and 5,000 were murdered in reprisals.

The bodies of the men and boys over age 16 of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, murdered by the Nazis. Image
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1/n June 8, 1993: Rene Bousquet, who led the police during the Vichy regime and was responsible for the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews to German concentration camps during World War II, was assassinated in his Paris apartment ImageImage
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