23 May 1913 | French Jew of Argentinian origin, Sigismond Syskind, was born in Buenos Aires. In 1921 he came to France.
He was deported to #Auschwitz on 20 May 1944. Later he was transferred to Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg and & Dresden where he died of dysentery on 7 April 1945.
23 May 1944 | A transport of 1,200 French Jews arrived at #Auschwitz from Drancy. After the selection, 221 men & 247 women were registered in the camp.
The remaining 723 people were murdered in gas chambers. Among them was Harriet Nordmann. She was almost 3 years old.
"Man is the most dangerous animal. All one needs is permission from those higher up to be vicious and they will be vicious. And the more permission they get, the more vicious they become." - Irene Weise, #Auschwitz survivor on #60Minutes describing the #Nazi's... or T****'s #RedHats... I'm not sure.
17 May 1938 | A French Jewish girl, Arlette Sokolski, was born in Douai.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 17 September 1942 in a transport of 1,048 Jews deported from Mechelen / Malines. She was among 717 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection
14 May 1944 | The main phase of the deportation of Hungarian Jews began. Between May 14 & July 9 in 142 trains some 420,000 people were deported to the German camp #Auschwitz. Some 330,000 of them were murdered immediately in gas chambers.
7 May 1938 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Stella Esther, Radomysler was born in Antwerp.
She arrived in #Auschwitz on 13 September 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. After the selection she was murdered in a gas chamber.
"Pro-#Palestinian protesters chanted “free #Palestine” outside #Auschwitz in Poland, according to footage shared by i24 journalist India Naftali on X Monday and multiple international media reports.
The pro-Palestinian #protest occurred during a march commemorating the victims of the #Holocaust on Holocaust Remembrance Day."
I grew up around a lot of survivors. I remember talking to my step dad's dad one time and you know these folks did not really talk about the holocaust. At all. And when they did it certainly wasn't around the kids.
So anyway, I forget the context of the conversation, but he said to me that "the thing to remember about what happened is that it's your neighbors that turn you in." We maybe talked three times in my life, but that is stamped in my brain.
"Marsch der Lebenden" in Auschwitz erinnert an Holocaust-Opfer
Mit dem "Marsch der Lebenden" wird in Auschwitz an die Holocaust-Opfer erinnert. In diesem Jahr waren auch Überlebende der Hamas-Attacke auf Israel dabei. In der Nähe gab es einen pro-palästinensischen Protest.
A sad 80th anniversary today: Gyula Gelléri was born in Budapest (20th district) in 1891, the son of Lipót and Roza Gelleri (née Rosa Krauß). He studied law and became a doctor of law. He married Eszter Fekete from Szeged and had two children. They lived in Szeged. In the middle of the war he was deported to Backa near Szeged and then to #Auschwitz, where he died on 2 May 1944. His wife Eszter Fekete (Dr Gyuláné Gelléri) survived and died in 2006.