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Jun 20

Bedřich Fritta (1906–1944)
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On December 4, 1941, Fritta was deported to Terezin, where SS guards assigned him to the drawing studio.
Secretly, Fritta recorded everyday ghetto life. In October 1944, Fritta was deported to Auschwitz, where he died of an illness shortly after.

2/n Tommy: To Tommy, for His Third Birthday in Terezin, 22 January 1944

Bedřich Fritta drew this picture book for his son Tomáš, known as Tommy, to mark his third birthday on January 22, 1944. Tommy was not yet a year old when he arrived in the Theresienstadt ghetto.

3/n Fritta's colorful pictures portray his son's everyday life in Theresienstadt. Tommy looks at himself in a mirror or pounds the empty table with his spoon once again, Fritta shows hunger as the prisoners' constant companion.

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Jun 18

1/n Between June 18 and June 22, 1944, media channels in Switzerland began a worldwide press campaign to publicize the Auschwitz Report, originally written by two Slovak Jewish prisoners, Alfred Wetzler and Walter Rosenberg,

Rudolf Vrba (left) and Alfred Wetzler.

2/n later known as Rudolf Vrba following their escape from Auschwitz on April 7, 1944. The report provided some of the first reliable eyewitness accounts of the extermination camp, and detailed the process of selection and murder of Jews in the camp’s gas chambers.

3/n On November 26, 1944, the War Refugee Board released the full report to the American press in a deliberate effort to raise awareness and strengthen public support for rescue efforts.
At roughly the same time as the report’s release, between late April and early July 1944,

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Jun 17

Erich Lichtblau Leskly
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Born in 1911, a graphic artist and designer from Ostrava in the Czech Republic who signed his works as “Eli”. During World War II Lesky and his wife Else were deported by the Germans at the Theresienstadt camp north of Prague.

You shall be counted

2/n Erich was assigned to various jobs including doing propaganda artwork for the Nazis, thus allowing him access to art materials. The art he created secretly, his sketches and cartoons, gave him a purpose and helped him to endure four horrendous years in Terezin.

3/n He was old enough to be patient and not take chances, but still young enough to have a sense of the absurd and sardonic, which can be seen in his art. Other painters who were making art related to camp experience were found out and all sent “East” which meant to concentration

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Jun 17

Sanz Briz, the "Spanish Schindler", saved the lives of 5,200 Jews

1/n ANGEL SANZ-BRIZ Budapest, Hungary… Summer 1944 – As the persecution of Hungary’s Jews became increasingly worse, Angel Sanz-Briz, who had been appointed to a post at the Spanish Legation in Hungary in

2/n the summer of 1944, stepped in to help Jews. On behalf of the Spanish government, Angel offered to give Jews of Spanish origin Spanish passports. Hungarian authorities gave Angel permission to issue Spanish passports to 200 Jews, but he discreetly changed that figure to 200

3/n families. As the situation worsened, Angel increased this number several times in order to help more Jews. In addition to providing these documents, Angel set up special apartment buildings with Spanish flags, marking these buildings as part of the Spanish Legation and

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Jun 16

October 3rd, 1940: "Le Statut des Juifs", anti-Jewish legislation is passed by Vichy
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Anti-Jewish laws passed by the collaborating French Vichy government in two stages in October 1940 and June 1941. These laws were created

2/n purely on the initiative of the French government and not by the Nazis themselves.
On October 3, 1940 the government passed its first widespread anti-Jewish legislation. This included an even stricter definition of who was a Jew than the Nazis allowed: under Vichy, someone

3/n was Jewish if he or she had three Jewish grandparents, or two Jewish grandparents if his or her spouse was also Jewish. The first Jewish Law also called for the drastic cutback of Jewish involvement in French society. Jews were to be excluded from the army officer corps and

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Jun 16

Adelaïde Haas Hautval (1906-1988)
A Protestant doctor helping the Jews

Marthe Adelaide Haas was born on the 1st January 1906 in Hohwald (Bas-Rhin), the last of Pastor Haas’s seven children. She studied medicine in Strasbourg. In

Alsace she started a home for disadvantaged children and then went to Switzerland to work as a neuro-psychiatrist until 1939. When she heard that her mother was ill, she applied for a pass which was refused. She ignored this, and was arrested at the border, and taken

to Bourges Railway station to have her identity checked. On the platform she stood up for (in German) a Jewish family being badly treated by the Germans. She was imprisoned in Bourges, was a witness to the first mass arrests, and, as a “friend of the Jews” was sentenced to share

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