Post

More from @RudiGeerts

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

@RudiGeerts

Feb 5

Toni Rinde - Her family's brave decision
1/n
Rinde was born in 1940 as Toni Igel in Przemysl, in Poland, about 14 months after Germans invaded the country.
Her family was among thousands of Jews who were confined in the city’s Jewish ghetto when in 1942 her dad, Stanley,

2/n got word that the Gestapo was preparing an “aktion” to transport hundreds of residents to a death camp.
Though the Germans reviled her dad and called him “a dirty Jew,” they still relied upon him to help distribute food and supplies to the troops and the ghetto.

3/n In his food distribution work, Stanley Igel got to know Albert Battel, one of the few Germans who seemed friendly to him, so when Igel got word of the impending action against Jews in the ghetto, he was alarmed. “My dad mentioned that to Battel

Toni with her parents, 1945

Read 12 tweets

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

@RudiGeerts

Feb 2

George Kadish
1/n
born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910 – September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews.

2/n The Kovno ghetto had 2 parts, called the "small" and "large" ghetto. The Germans destroyed the small ghetto on October 4, 1941, and killed almost all of its inhabitants at the Ninth Fort. Later that same month, on October 29, 1941,

"The body is gone"

3/n the Germans staged what became known as the "Great Action." In a single day, they shot 9,200 Jews at the Ninth Fort.
Kadish took every opportunity possible to document day-to-day life in the Kovno ghetto and, after his escape in 1944, the ghetto’s final days.

Read 11 tweets

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

@RudiGeerts

Feb 1

BESA,
the code of honor that saved the Albanian Jews
1/n
Albania, a mountainous country on the southeast coast of the Balkan peninsula, was home to a population of 803,000. Of those only 200 were Jews. After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, many Jews found refuge in Albania.

2/n Thousands of Jewish refugees entered the country from Germany, Austria, Serbia, Greece and Yugoslavia, hoping to continue on to the Land of Israel or other places of refuge. Following the German occupation in 1943, the Albanian population, in an extraordinary act,

3/n refused to comply with the occupier’s orders to turn over lists of Jews residing within the country’s borders. Moreover, the various governmental agencies provided many Jewish families with fake documentation that allowed them to blend in with the rest of the population.

Read 8 tweets

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

@RudiGeerts

Jan 30

Jewish doctors and nurses during the Nazi period
1/n
In January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of the Reichstag, the governing body of Germany. "The Enabling Act" was subsequently passed in March 1933, effectively giving Hitler total power. Hitler then set about

2/n with his programs of “social Darwinism” and “racial hygiene,” which included the removal of all Jewish and female doctors from their posts in April and June of 1933, often replacing them with medical students. While female doctors might still be allowed to work in midwifery,

3/n Jewish doctors could not work at all and many emigrated.

In 1933, many Jews fled Germany before they were dismissed from their positions, or worse. Within weeks of Hitler’s ascension, hundreds of Jews had left. Britain was a welcoming destination for

Read 9 tweets

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

@RudiGeerts

Jan 29

Lisette Moru
"The Smile from Auschwitz"
1/n
Marie-Louise Pierrette Moru, known as Lisette, was born on July 27, 1925. Her father, Joseph Moru, worked in the shipyard in nearby Lorient. Her mother, Suzanne Gahinet was a fish trader. Lisette was the eldest of three children.

2/n A rebel at heart, Lisette couldn’t stand the Occupation. She wore a Cross of Lorraine – the symbol of Free France – under her jacket collar. She’d take any opportunity she could to thumb her nose behind a German soldier’s back – she wasn’t shy; she’d do it in full view.

3/n With a few friends, Lisette became part of the Resistance – distributing anti-Nazi leaflets and keeping track of the occupiers’ movements. She joined the Nemrod intelligence network.

Lisette and her brother Louis (left).
© Personal archives of Roselyne Le Labousse

Read 11 tweets

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

@RudiGeerts

Jan 28

Francisco Boix - The photographer of Mauthausen
Thread
Francesc Boix Campo (Catalan: Francesc Boix i Campo) was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War and photographer who was imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp. At the Nuremberg and Dachau trials he presented photographs

that played a role in the conviction of Nazi war criminals. As a Spanish republican he was exiled in France in 1939. He was recruited by the French Foreign Legion and French Army and captured in 1940 by the Germans. Boix, like over 7,000 Spaniards, was an inmate in the Mauthausen

concentration camp between January 1941 and May 1945. From the end of August 1941 he worked in the Erkennungsdienst, the photography department of the camp administration, taking ID photos of inmates and documenting events in the camp. He was able to hide and preserve until

Read 8 tweets

Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

More from @RudiGeerts

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

Cowboy Tcherno Bill

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Send Email!