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Majdanek Memorial
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06.12.1912|Symcha Białowicz (Bialowitz) was born in Izbica. He arrived at the German death camp in #Sobibór on 28.04.1943, 3 months after his brother Philip. They both escaped during the prisoner uprising in October & survived WWII. Symcha settled in Israel & passed away in 2014.
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Majdanek Memorial
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Serra’s album was found in 1942 in Kraśniczyn, at the side of the road along which the German Jews were herded to the ghetto in Krasnystaw. This unique memento of the Adlers’ lives is preserved in our archives. It restores the identity of some of the 180,000 victims of #Sobibór.
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Auschwitz Memorial
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Of the 620 St. Louis passengers who returned to continental Europe, 254 were murdered during the #Holocaust, most of them in #Auschwitz and #Sobibor. Of the 288 passengers who managed to get to Britain, the vast majority were alive at war's end.
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World Jewish Congress
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Marking #WorldRefugeeDay today reminds us of the need to fight for a more inclusive and equal world. In 1939, hundreds of Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany aboard the MS St. Louis. But they were denied refuge in Cuba, the US, and Canada. Many later perished in the Holocaust.
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(5/n) This was, of course, a lie. There wa no childrens camp in the Netherlands. On 06-06-1943 the childrens transport went to transit camp Westerbork. Just 2 days later they were deported to death camp #Sobibor. Sonja only 4 months 'old'.💔😢 ⬇️
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Nick Short 🇺🇦
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More #Sobibor. There is precious little to see on site. But one chilling building has survived. This house was the residence of the two camp commanders of the Sobibor extermination camp, Franz Stangl (April 1942-September 1942) & Franz Reichleitner (September 1942 - 1943).
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Nick Short 🇺🇦
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Around 200,000 people were slaughtered in the German #Sobibor extermination camp in the 18 months or so of its operation, in a gas chamber, mostly within about an hour of arrival at the station.
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Holocaust Education
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OTD in 1943 an uprising was instigated by a small group of Jewish prisoners at #Sobibor. Despite the difficulties inherent in attempting clandestine activity at the camp, the Germans were taken by surprise enabling some 300 people to escape, approx. 50 escapees survived the war.
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Holocaust Education
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OTD in 1943 final liquidation of Minsk's ghetto began. Minsk was occupied in June 1941 & in July its ghetto established with c.80,000 Jews. By Aug mass killings began & a Jewish underground emerged. By Sept 1943 Minsk's last Jews were deported to #Sobibor.
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Israel Kicks A**
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July 23, 1943, in the German Nazi death camp in #Sobibór the Dutch #Olympic gold medalists in gymnastics were murdered: Anna Dresden-Polak, Lea Koot-Nordheim, Judikje Themans-Simons. Their coach Gerrit Kleerekoper was also killed that day. #Olympics Photo credit: Getty Images
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