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SWFC, Gladbach Politics, Philosophy & Economics. Books. Lego. German.
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my mum once sent me a postcard to ask if I'd seen the WhatsApp message she'd sent. That I had answered.

Also - I love how specific she was with date *and* time 😂
Tag 7: Roter Backapfel
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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7 December 1923 | A Polish Jew, Moses Fuks, was born in Warsaw.

In #Auschwitz from 29 April 1942.
No. 32629
He perished in the camp on 3 July 1942.
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Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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8 December 1923 | A German Jew, Klaus Joachim Magen, was born in Chemnitz.

In #Auschwitz from 19 June 1942.
No. 39896
He perished in the camp on 16 August 1942.
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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8 December 1911 | French Jew, Michel Marcu, was born in Paris.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 11 February 1943. He did not survive.
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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8 December 1936 | A Czech Jewish boy, Petr Epstein, was born in Teplice.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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8 December 1887 | A Pole, Jan Janczak, was born in Rawa Mazowiecka. A printer.

In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 38125
He perished in the camp on 8 August 1942.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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7 December 1942 | A German Sinti boy, Raimund Rose, was born in Wrocław (Breslau).

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) from 7 March 1943.
No. Z-743
He perished in the camp on 1 May 1943.
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The fate of the Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz:
Podcast: https://bit.ly/4pIRyEJ
Lesson: https://bit.ly/44EVuxY
"On Auschwitz" (7): the fate of Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz
YouTube video by Auschwitz Memorial / Miejsce Pamięci Auschwitz
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December 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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6 December 1903 | A Polish Jew, Mendel Samuel Wolf, was born in Ołpiny. Watchmaker.

In #Auschwitz from 12 December 1941.
No. 24366
He perished in the camp on 26 December 1941.
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Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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7 December 1913 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helena Haeutnerová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 October 1942. She did not survive.
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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7 December 1921 | A Polish Jew, Abraham Kempler, was born in Żabnica. A worker.

In #Auschwitz from 5 March 1942.
No. 26393
He perished in the camp on 18 March 1942.
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Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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7 December 1929 | A Polish Jew, Gedale (Gdala) Hejblum, was born in Łuków. He emigrated to France.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Beaune-la-Rolande on 5 August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
December 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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7 December 1907 | A French Jew, Leon Offenthal, was born in Paris. He worked in Morocco as a leather tanner and trader.

In #Auschwitz from June 1942.
No. 42388
He perished in the camp on 10 August 1942.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Tove Jansson's (1957) illustration from her book 'Moominland Midwinter'. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #WomensArt
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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US government adopted the far-right Great Replacement myth and is now demanding NATO countries to dismantle the EU and the European project. They themselves frame it as a binary choice. Essentially the end of NATO as we know it.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Another important read by @nickcohen.bsky.social
Europe is increasingly encircled by its enemies. And there is big money involved.
The fake patriots of the European right
Trump and Putin’s fifth column
nickcohen.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Tag 6: Wintermärchen
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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'Cley windmill in winter', machine and hand embroidery by UK textile artist Rachel Wright #WomensArt
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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5 December 1901 | Jewish man, Félix Abécassis, was born in Oran (Algeria). He came to Paris in 1920. An English-French translator.

In Auschwitz from 12 February 1944.
No. 127616
He was later transferred to Buchenwald, where he died of pneumonia on 23 February 1945.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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6 December 1928 | Dutch Jewish girl, Betje Polak, was born in Rotterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. She did not survive.
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Children at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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6 December 1869 | A Lithuanian Jew, Isak Leimann, was born in Vilnius. He emigrated to Norway.

He arrived in #Auschwitz with his two children, Bernhard & Dina, on 1 December 1942. Isak & Dina were murdered in a gas chamber. Bernhard perished in the camp in January 1943.
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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6 December 1883 | A German Jew, Otto Leo Bing, was born in Cologne. He lived in Norway.

Deported to #Auschwitz in November 1942.
No. 80025
He perished in the camp on 14 January 1943.
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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7 December 1896 | A Pole, Wacław Kierzkowski, was born in Dąbrowa Górnicza. A clerk.

In #Auschwitz from 6 April 1941.
No. 14034
He perished in the camp on 2 November 1941.
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"Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
a survivor
6 December 1921 | A Pole, Marian Kołodziej, was born in Raszków.

Deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 432
He survived.
After the war, he was a painter & stage designer.
Author of monumental „Negatives of Memory”.
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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6 December 1911 | A Czech Jewish woman, Vilemina Wittlerová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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6 December 1942 | Grigol Peradze, a cleric of the Georgian Orthodox Church, an archimandrite, perished in #Auschwitz.

Since 1933, he lectured at the College of Orthodox Theology at Warsaw University. The Germans arrested him on 5 May 1942, and, in November, deported him to Auschwitz.
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM