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The article discusses an unknown aspect of the history of Auschwitz, focusing on how the camp hospital, despite being established in terror and inhuman conditions, initially did not serve only to kill prisoners, but over time its prisoner-doctors began to play a key role in keeping alive those whom the Germans still wanted to exploit as a labor force. #Auschwitz #Historia #Holokaust (translated)

Bartosz Lewandowski wrote that some Polish politicians and people with academic titles, including Adam Bodnar, claimed that Poles had collaborated in the Holocaust. He added that Germans had already started referring to Auschwitz-Birkenau as a Polish rather than a German extermination camp. #Holokaust #Polska #Auschwitz (translated)

OfficialZero wrote that experts warned about the very limited knowledge of Germans regarding the suffering of Poles during World War II and that many crimes hardly existed in public awareness. The author asked why German memory culture, focused on the Holocaust, devoted so little space to the occupation of Poland. #historia #IIwojnaświatowa #Polska (translated)

Cassiopeia responded to the descriptions that she is "exalted," pointing out that for years she has been engaged in a debate on platform X with key Israeli politicians. She wrote that in an interview for tvn24, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke about the involvement of Poles in the murder and handing over of Jews and about members of his family — his mother and two children — who were said to have been killed by Polish teenagers in Łuków near Siedlce in November 1944 after five years of fleeing from the Germans. Bennett also reportedly spoke about around 200,000 similar families. Cassiopeia stated that she checked the history of the Łuków county. According to her, on 4 and 7 September 1939, the bombing of Łuków killed about 260 Poles and Jews, and on 18 September 1939, the Wehrmacht, in retaliation for alleged shots fired at a German car, executed 34 people in Narutowicz Square and on the streets, and set houses on fire. She also wrote that on 5 October 1940, in Serokomla and Hordzieża, the Wehrmacht and SS executed 28 farmers from Serokomla and 4 Polish soldiers. She described the pacification that took place on 14 April 1940, conducted in retaliation for the alleged murder of the German settler Adolf Käsner's family. The SS, Gestapo from Radzyń and Lublin, and Selbstschutz, including local German colonists, were said to have gathered the residents of Józefów, Bronisławów, Zakęp, Serokomla, Hordzieża, Bielany, Rudy, Wólka, and other villages. According to Cassiopeia, about 215 Poles, including women and children, were executed, and 27 farms were burned. Cassiopeia attributed the extermination of Jews in Łuków county in 1942-43 to the Germans and Ukrainian auxiliary formations. She stated that during the operation from 5-8 October 1942, the gendarmerie, the 101st Reserve Police Battalion, Ukrainians, Latvians, and Lithuanians surrounded the ghetto, and about 4,000 to 5,000 people were gathered at the marketplace on Międzyrzecka Street. About 500 people were said to have died on the spot, including patients from the hospital; children were thrown from the floors onto the pavement, and the rest were taken to Treblinka. She also mentioned the executions in Malcanów on 7 November 1942, including 80-200 children under 5-6 years old, and the execution of 500-600 Jews in December 1942 "to reduce employment." According to her entry, on 2 May 1943, the ghetto in Łuków was liquidated, part of the buildings were set on fire, and 2,000-3,000 people were taken to Treblinka; those hiding were shot for weeks afterward. Cassiopeia also described the liquidation of the ghetto in Stoczek Łukowski on 12 September 1942, where about 3,500 people were to be involved in the action, and about 200 were murdered in the march to Parysów. In Serokomla on 22 September 1942, according to her, about 200-300 Jews were shot at the gravel pit; on 15 October in Krzywda, about 150-240 people died, in the fall of 1942 in Okrzeja about 90-113, on 10 October in Grochówka about 70, and on 28 December in Wola Okrzejska 36, mostly women and children. She added that Jews from Adamów, Wojcieszków, Tuchowicz, Gułów, Stanin, Ulan, and other places were driven to Łuków or shot on the spot, especially the elderly, sick, and those hiding. Among the executions of Poles for helping the AK and NSZ and hiding Jews from 1942-1944, she mentioned the killing of 24 people, including small children, in Budziska and Krzówka on 22 September 1942; 29 people, including 9 children aged from 2 months to 14 years, in Gręzówka on 28 December 1942; and 38 people, including 8 children, in Lędza Wielka on 5 February 1943. She also pointed out crimes in Oszczepalin, Rola, Wojcieszków, Feliksin, Wola Kisielska, Jamielnik, and other places where from a few to several people were dying. She wrote that on 24 July 1944, the Germans bombed Łuków for a week during their retreat, destroying the town center, Cieszkowizna, and Glinki, burning a large part of the city and causing the death of over 200 Poles. She stated that in the materials she cited, she found no information about "Polish teenagers" mentioned by Bennett. In the end, Cassiopeia wrote that although — as she assessed — half of Poland does not feel obliged to support her school, she hopes that at least some people will appreciate her work as a history teacher, which she has been doing for a decade. https://t.co/uYX0ELCMFj #Historia #Polska #Holokaust (translated)

It was only a matter of time before we reached this point we reached yesterday in Split. "It was only a matter of time before we reached this point we reached yesterday in Split. It was only a matter of time before calls for violence against Serbs and the glorification of places of historical suffering and the commission of genocide against Serbs by football fan and other groups would lead to the glorification of Nazis and the celebration of the Holocaust. And that happened yesterday," said Pupovac at a press conference in the Croatian Parliament. #MiloradPupovac #BorbaProtivMržnje #LjudskaPrava (translated)

Tomas Kapler wrote that the woman he reported on in the series #WomenInScience gave a lecture in Cambridge and worked as a geographer for the Allies during the war. Upon returning to Prague, he noted that she found out that her relatives did not survive the Holocaust and that her family's property was gone. She then lived in the attic of her faculty's dean's office for several years. Kapler urged readers to share the series if they wanted him to continue it. #ŽenyVeVědě #historie #holokaust (translated)

Yaron Nadbornik criticized Heikki Hiilamo's column published in Yleisradio, stating that it presented a one-sided image connecting the actions of Israel's leadership, Finnish Christian groups, and Minister Antti Häkkänen's visit to the structures of oppression. Nadbornik argued that the column's treatment of Israel and Zionism made Jews collectively responsible and expanded the criticism to also include Israel's supporters and Jews in general. According to Nadbornik, Hiilamo's text divided the parties into white and Christian oppressors and non-white and Muslim victims. He said this framing overlooked the Jewish roots, history, and vulnerability in the Middle East, as well as the fact that millions of people from various backgrounds lived in Israel. He also believed that the framework wrongly fit the conflict into a narrative of Western colonialism and racism and presented Israel as a refuge for a people without another homeland. Nadbornik wrote that the prejudices against Jews were based on their otherness. He noted that studies had shown that Jews living in the diaspora were unjustly held accountable for the actions of the state of Israel. He argued that Hiilamo's rhetoric, which connected Christian groups and ministerial visits with the suffering in Gaza, reinforced this framework. Nadbornik recalled the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, describing it as a massacre involving rapes, mutilations, and the abduction of civilians, including babies, festival-goers, and the elderly, into Israel. He called it the largest single act of violence against Jews since the Holocaust. According to Nadbornik, Hiilamo overlooked the fact that Hamas and Hezbollah openly sought the destruction of Israel in connection with Israel's military actions. He believed that framing the terror attack merely as a security threat or comparing it to Russia's invasion of Ukraine ignored the rights of Israeli citizens to exist and be protected. https://t.co/PFvBFdaoiQ #Israel #Juutalaiset #Rasismi (translated)

"Memory means responsibility, and that responsibility never disappears." The commemoration in Kiev was also attended by the German Minister of Family, Karin Prien, who emphasized Germany's lasting responsibility for the crimes committed during the Nazi regime. #BabinJar #Židovi #Holokaust (translated)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky participated in the commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the massacre of Jews at Babyn Yar, highlighting the pain of loss of life and Germany's ongoing responsibility for the crimes committed during the Nazi regime. #BabinJar #Židovi #Holokaust (translated)

The council of the German city of Heidenau decided to suspend the laying of Stolpersteine, plaques commemorating the victims of Nazism, which provoked outrage in the country, as local activists claim that this is an attempt to remove the memory of these victims from public space. #Stolpersteine #pamięć #Holokaust (translated)

On September 30, 1928, Elie Wiesel was born. And you know, my dear ones, that Elie Wiesel had an opinion about you 😊 ??? Here you go ❗️⬇️ “If it comes to Poles...it is not a mere coincidence that the camps of the greatest genocide were established among them, in Poland, and not elsewhere.” And about the “Pogrom in Kielce”: “How could they? This question has haunted me for decades. How could ordinary citizens of this seemingly quiet city commit such heinous crimes, in broad daylight? To utter the name Kielce and the next word that comes to mind and to lips is ‘pogrom.’ For years, some of us have wondered whether a Jew can still die in Auschwitz after Auschwitz. Kielce gave us an answer. This cruel pogrom with 42 innocent Jewish victims, which we commemorate today, was the answer. What happened here showed that it is possible. What happened here showed that ordinary citizens can be just as cruel as the murderers from any death camp. If the violent prewar antisemitism paved the way for the Holocaust, then the Kielce pogrom confirmed its purpose.” Some claim that I am being "arrogant." Seriously??? Okay. So I am now turning to the President with a question about the Kielce pogrom, let His Majesty the brightest Republic...decide. Mr. President @NawrockiKn, did the Polish National Hero, Legendary General, double Knight of the Order of Virtuti Militari, representative of the Delegation of Armed Forces in the Country, the late Antoni Heda ps. "Szary"...LIE??? "In 1946 I had at my disposal the intelligence and counterintelligence of 'Polish Underground' operating in my area and long before this provocation I received reports that Jews from the UB in Kielce were plotting something. I placed my entire area under strict surveillance. We did not take our eyes off the Kielce building of the Security Office or its employees. Incidentally, it turned out that those few highly publicized murders of Jews returning from the USSR to Poland, which were attributed to 'Poland Underground,' were the work of the Jewish UB under the supervision of the Jewish NKVD; this gave me pause. I intensified security measures in my area. It turned out that Jews from the UB were murdering their own, but why? I couldn't answer that question at that time, at least for a while. Jews from the UB disguised as soldiers of the Home Army, National Armed Forces, stopped a train and threw Jews out of it, while all blame for these murders fell on us. I examined the matter thoroughly, it turned out that neither the AK nor the NSZ nor anyone from the Polish underground had anything to do with these murders. Among the information collected by our 'two-man' team was one that particularly worried me. For some time there had been a certain Adaś Posraniec in Kielce. A Soviet parachutist from the war, a Jew using the alias Adam Kornecki. 'Adaś Posraniec' because when he jumped out of the plane, out of fear he pooped his pants; people from the brigade commander AL, Colonel Połowniak, found him all covered in filth and terribly stinking, and that is why they named him 'Adaś Posraniec'; This Kornecki was an exceptional coward, before every fight with the Germans, he ducked to the rear or fled. And it was this Adaś Zasraniec who surveyed the blocks where the massacre then took place. From the continuously arriving information I received, it appeared that in one of the factories dummies were loaded onto a truck and the day before the incidents were delivered to those two blocks where the Jews lived; meanwhile, at night several corpses, probably of men from the AK and NSZ, were brought to the Kielce prison, where they were dressed in the previously sewn Jewish gowns; these corpses were even glued with beards, caps pressed on their heads and delivered in bags by car to those blocks. I had this information the day before the Kielce provocation, that is why those two Jewish blocks were not only placed under observation, but we managed to put our man there, and it turned out that there were no Jewish residents left, apart from a few small exceptions, their place was taken by UB officers, who kept dummies and corpses of AK and NSZ soldiers ready at the windows to be thrown outside at the right moment. No, it is not true that crowds of Kielce residents broke into those two Jewish blocks; that is a blatant lie." Source: Elie Wiesel - "Song of the Dead" Wrocław 1991, p. 143 Elie Wiesel - "How Could They?" (Gazeta Wyborcza, July 8, 1996, page 4) Jan Marszałek - "Traitors." Volume 1. Authorized interview in Warsaw at the Church in Kamionek, on December 3, 1996. ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS Please help promote our lessons wherever possible. In other schools, offices, corporations, and workplaces. And always please credit the author: @AnitaSchelde. And with us, it’s just another day: - we click RT - we write comments - we support the history teacher, so there is enough not only for teaching materials but also for bread. Thank you ❤️. https://t.co/uYX0ELCMFj https://t.co/uYX0ELCMFj #ElieWiesel #Holokaust #Kielce (translated)

OŚWIADCZENIE pani od historii ❗️❗️❗️ Chciałam się podzielić refleksją która jest skierowana do wszystkich Polaków spoza naszej Szkoły. Ale najpierw kilka cytatów ⬇️ prof. Barbara Engelking : "Polacy zawiedli Żydów. Szmalcownictwo było powszechne" Stanisław Różycki o sytuacji w getcie : "Nikt nie ma bliźniego, sąsiada, kolegi, znajomego, krewnego, za grosz zaufania, każdy boi się donosicielstwa i szantażystów. Ludzie mówią tylko o obojętnych rzeczach, wszędzie węszą szpiclów, tajniaków, denuncjatorów i szantażystów". Rabin Szymon Huberband : "Żydowskie getto zalane jest ogromną liczbą informatorów, szantażystów i kolaborantów. Trzeba przyznać, że głównymi przyczynami wszystkich tych przestępstw są głód i ubóstwo. Ale to żadna wymówka ! Żydzi zawsze cierpieli z powodu donosicieli. Ale nic nie może się równać z obecnymi wydarzeniami w getcie". Weszłam dzisiaj na Facebooka...infantylnie przerobione i pokolorowane przez AI zdjęcia Polskich Bohaterów Narodowych, opatrzone niezbornym językiem...mają dziesiątki tysięcy udostępnień 🤦🏻‍♀️. To w taki upośledzony sposób, chcecie Polacy zrzucić z siebie odium "współsprawców Holokaustu" ❓ Kolorowymi obrazkami z AI 😳❓❓❓ Doszłam do wniosku, że Polacy absolutnie nie dorośli do mojej Pracy u Podstaw. I jak najbardziej wpływowa Ambasada na Świecie ze mną skończy to wcale nie będę płakała. Bawcie się dalej obrazkami ! https://t.co/uYX0ELCMFj Źródło : Archiwum Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego Ring I/428, Stanisław Różycki - "To jest getto ! (Reportaż z inferna XX wieku) 7 XII 1941 r. Szymon Huberband - "Kiddush Hashem : Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland During the Holocaust". #Holokaust #Historia #Polska

„Vezměte si naše zlato, ale ne naše Židy.“ Takto zní tradované albánské vyprávění o odpovědi nacistům, kteří v roce 1943 požadovali seznamy Židů. V Albánii, zemi s muslimskou většinou, žilo před válkou přibližně 200 Židů. Na jejím konci jich bylo více, protože se zde ukryly stovky židovských uprchlíků z Německa, Rakouska, Řecka a okupovaných částí Jugoslávie. Za jejich záchranou stál mimo jiné starobylý albánský kodex cti zvaný besa, tedy dodržení daného slova. Kdo překročí práh vašeho domu, není cizinec, ale host. A hosta je třeba chránit i za cenu vlastního života. Do záchrany se zapojovali muslimové i křesťané. Úředníci vystavovali falešné doklady, rodiny ukrývaly Židy ve svých domovech a pomáhaly jim najít útočiště na venkově. Téměř všichni Židé, kteří se během německé okupace nacházeli na území Albánie, holokaust přežili. Jad vašem dosud uznal 75 Albánců jako Spravedlivé mezi národy. #Besa #Holocaust #SpravedlivíMeziNárody

29 September 1889 | A Polish Jew, Isaak Silbiger, was born in Oświęcim. In #Auschwitz from 31 October 1941. No. 22354 He perished in the camp on 2 November 1941. --- Żydowscy więźniowie w KL Auschwitz: https://t.co/ptalKjelgo https://t.co/tpH8WW1pJI #Auschwitz #Pamięć #Holokaust

Rada miejska Heidenau w Saksonii przegłosowała zakaz montowania kamieni pamięci, co wywołało oburzenie organizacji pamiętających o Holokauście i krytyków, którzy określają tę decyzję jako skandal i przejaw kultury zapomnienia, zwłaszcza że wsparli ją radni CDU w koalicji z prawicową AfD. #AfD #Holokaust #Saksonia

"vapustatud, et demokraatlik erakond laskub nii madalale ja toetab AfD äärmuslaste sedavõrd läbinähtavat manöövrit"Holokausti üle elanud Müncheni juudikogukonna esinaine Charlotte Knobloch leidis, et mälestusmärkide linnapildist eemaldamine on vale lähenemine. #Saksamaa #komistuskivid #natsiohvrid