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Today in Labor History October 7, 1944: Uprising at Birkenau extermination camp (associated with Auschwitz). Jewish Sonderkommando, mostly from Greece and Hungary, attacked the SS with stones and hammers, killing three of them, and set crematorium IV on fire and threw their Oberkapo into a furnace. Sonderkommando were Jewish prisoners who were forced by the Nazis, on threat of their own deaths, to dispose of gas chamber victims). After escaping, the rebels reached Rajsko, where they hid in the granary, but the SS pursued and killed them by setting the granary on fire. By the time the rebellion at crematorium IV had been suppressed, 212 members of the Sonderkommando were still alive and 451 had been killed.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #nazis #resistance #uprising #birkenau #auschwitz #fascism #antisemetism #rebellion

voyager Aug 15

Dinge die mit "G" beginnen...Gleis /
Things that start with the letter G... well in German those were tracks, but to stay on subject, in English it could be a guard tower, genocide, grey, grief...
#FotoVorschlag

Birkenau, Auschwitz, Poland
Dec 2008

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Memorial #History #Photography #blackandwhite #bnw #monochrome #concentrationcamp #Poland

damian entwistle Aug 7

Today's Flickr photo is a most sombre one. It was taken at Birkenau. It shows the remains of Gas Chamber / Crematorium 3. The Nazis dynamited the facilities before they retreated, hoping to erase their purpose and function.

Vigilance and Respect ✡️ ✊

#birkenau #DeathCamp #nazis #holocaust

MAU Aug 3

"Il #2agosto1944 fu liquidato il “campo zingari” di #Auschwitz-#Birkenau: oltre 4.000 persone furono sterminate nelle camere a gas."

#Sinti e #Rom vittime sempre dimenticate.
Ieri l'ho dimenticato anche io e mi scuso.

#Porrajmos #memoria #3agosto

https://www.pressenza.com/it/2025/08/firenze-commemorazione-del-genocidio-di-rom-e-sinti/

Firenze: commemorazione del genocidio di Rom e Sinti

Oggi 2 agosto presso il Giardino dei Giusti a Firenzesi è svolta la cerimonia di ricordo del genocidio dei Rom e dei Sinti da parte dei nazisti durante

Pressenza

Kei Omori, 大森啓 Jul 30

Starmer's "Palestinian recognition"? Pure fatwa panic. UK's colonial guilt catching up.
Germany throws "divine manna" while its economy implodes—blind loyalty to arrogant Israel until the end.
Atlantic orthodoxy ROTS.

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ファトワに怯えてがホンネやろと🇬🇧に、その思い上がりに怒髪天を突く糞🇮🇱に従順に従う経済破綻で壊滅寸前のアホ極まるビスマルクから変わってねー🇩🇪に対して、それぞれキッツい皮肉をで挑発した感じを出しました👊🏽

👉🏽 open.substack.com/pub/keiomori/p…

#Fatwa #Gaza #Birkenau

KONTEXT:Wochenzeitung Jul 1

Vergiss nicht die Zahnbürste, wenn Du nach Auschwitz fährst.
Vergiss die Brille nicht und schreib Deinen Namen auf den Koffer: Deutlich und deutsch …#Auschwitz #Sobibor #Bergen-Belsen #Mauthausen #Majdanek #Katyn #Gaza #Gulag #Ghetto #Birkenau #Lodz
Auschwitz – Grohmanns "Wettern der Woche"

Auschwitz – Grohmanns "Wettern der Woche"

Vergiss nicht die Zahnbürste, wenn Du nach Auschwitz fährst. Vergiss die Brille nicht und schreib Deinen Namen auf den Koffer: Deutlich und deutsch …

KONTEXT Wochenzeitung | Invidious

voyager Jul 1

The senseless end of the road for many.
The symbolic end of the railroad tracks in the Nazi concentration/extermination camp in Birkenau. When one says Auschwitz, this is the camp they're most likely referring to.

Birkenau, Auschwitz (Oświęcim), Poland
Dec 2008

#TrainTrackTuesday #railroad #Nazi #concentrationcamp #Auschwitz #Birkenau #winter #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #photography #history #WW2 #WWII

Robert Böttner May 13

Coincidence or not, it's the architectural similarity that strikes me #facism #musk #tesla #nazi #auschwitz #birkenau #neveragain #neveragainisnow #noai

oatmeal Apr 22

#GazaGenocide / That Herzog?

#Ynet is reporting that Israeli President Herzog’s and his wife will lead the 37th annual "March of the Living," which will take place between #Auschwitz and #Birkenau this Thursday.

Israel's Herzog participation in the Holocaust memorial is clearly deeply hypocritical given his actions and statements. His rhetoric attributing collective blame for #Hamas’s actions to all Palestinians—a statement cited by the International Court of Justice—stands in contrast to the solemnity of commemorating the systematic extermination of Jews during the #Holocaust.

[...] What statesmanship is there in the signing of a lethal munition which, in the eyes of the world, represents Israel’s greatest sin in this war – sowing devastation in Gaza and killing innocents. --- Netta Ahituv wrote Haaretz.

The widely publicized image of Herzog signing a bomb shell intended for use in Gaza, an act condemned as indicative of genocidal intent, underscores a disturbing disconnect between remembering past atrocities while contributing to the suffering of civilians in #Gaza, where over 50,000 people, predominantly women and children, have been murdered so far by the #IDF.

oatmeal (@oatmeal@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 1 image #Palestine / Israeli education system overlooking non-Jewish Holocaust victims The Israeli education system primarily focuses on the #Holocaust experienced by Jewish people, and traditionally minimizes the stories of other victims. While the curriculum does technically include references to non-Jewish victims – such as Roma and people with disabilities – these references are often minimal and occur on the periphery of the main Holocaust narrative. A new educational kit developed by “Morasha” aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of these non-Jewish victims, but currently, only one of 45 lesson plans offered by the Ministry of Education addresses these groups. The Ministry claims the curriculum includes these references, but the article suggests this is a limited and understated representation of the full scope of victims. The article highlights that the #Nazi regime persecuted numerous groups beyond just #Jewish people, including political opponents, professional criminals, immigrants, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and those considered "asocial." These groups were identified with different colored triangles in concentration camps. There's a surprising lack of awareness about these other victims, even among Israelis, despite their significant suffering. The education system often minimizes or omits their stories. [...] In this regard, Novik says that familiarity with the stories of the non-Jewish populations persecuted during the Holocaust is essential for understanding the Nazi regime and its ideology. 'When you learn about the Holocaust only from the Jewish perspective and describe it as a relatively isolated event historically and socially, it doesn’s provide a complete understanding of how dark and oppressive regimes harm everyone — both within the societies they lead and within the groups of 'others' within them — and of the fact that the very existence of such regimes depends on this suppression, division, and scapegoating,' she says. [...] The first steps taken against homosexuals in Germany were directed against LGBTQ+ clubs and publications. The Nazis looted the Institute for Sex Research, violently attacked its employees, and subsequently closed it down. Prior to that, the institute’s library was burned during the infamous Berlin book burning. The Nazis also seized the patient records and used them to create the "Pink Lists" managed by the Gestapo, which included names of men suspected of homosexuality. [...] The assessment also shows that homosexuals were persecuted and murdered in Germany alone, while the regime "encouraged" homosexuality in the countries it conquered, believing it would limit the birth rate. Within Germany, they were the first victims of the Nazi regime's medical experiments. However, unlike other persecuted groups, their suffering did not end with the war, as homosexual relationships continued to be illegal, and prisoners who had served their sentences remained in prison even after the change of government. In respect to the rise of extreem forms of Nationalism in #Israel, the #USA and in Europe, it was interesting to read the following: [...] Through the assessment, which is open for use by teachers in the education system, one can learn, for example, that the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany were established as early as 1933, and they imprisoned political opponents and those suspected of being such, without being brought to trial or convicted in a legal proceeding, based on the fact that they were defined as a "security threat." Students are asked to answer questions that encourage critical thinking, such as why political opponents are the first to be sent to concentration camps, and why the arrests were called “arrests for protection” – whom were they intended to protect and from what. [...] Furthermore, the assessment emphasizes the important role played by the compliant cooperation of many citizens with the regime's extreme measures – even when they were directed against their own family members – and the indoctrination they underwent, which caused them to adopt the Nazi worldview." Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazine/2025-04-18/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/00000196-3e60-d124-a5d7-be761bbf0000 or https://archive.ph/WxYcV @israel@a.gup.pe #GazaGenocide @histodons@a.gup.pe #histodons #LGBTQ

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Joanny Maire Apr 13

Face à l'histoire
Les déportés 6/8 : La réinsertion

Comment nos trois déportés ont-ils tenté de se réinsérer dans la société de l'après-guerre ? Comment se reconstruire un avenir après l'expérience concentrationnaire, comment faire face à l'incompréhension et l'indifférence à leur égard ?

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/face-a-l-histoire/les-deportes-ep6-9278398

#conseilpodcast #Histoire #SecondeGuerremondiale #Shoah #Holocauste #Génocide #Auschwitz #Birkenau #Déportation #Résistancefrançaise #Nazisme #Devoirdemémoire #travaildememoire

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