20,000+ followers here at #Mastodon after less than three days is a huge encouragement.

Thank you for welcoming us in #fediverse and for your incredible support. We need it. The #memory needs it.

#NeverForget #Auschwitz #history
@histodons

@auschwitzmuseum
Thank you for your invaluable reminder of what we must never allow to happen again.

This is not an issue on the conscience of one nation, it highlights the potential inhumanity within any group of people, regardless of country, and we must resist it in any way we can.

@auschwitzmuseum The work you do is so important. The victims' names and photographs personalise the tragedy and horror in a way that the numbers can't. It's vital that we #NeverForget 🕯
@auschwitzmuseum Make it over 22K! You represent a part of history we really can #neverforget!

@auschwitzmuseum it just important that you keep your remembering here as well.

Or only here.

We should be reminded ❤️

@auschwitzmuseum Are there other similar accounts for other camps? I don’t know to what degree there is collaboration among the myriad locations, but it would be nice to know of those other accounts, if any, to boost their memory, too.
@auschwitzmuseum @histodons I’m glad you’re here now. Thanks for all you do to remind us of that terrible time in history.
@auschwitzmuseum @histodons Lost my grandparents at #Auschwitz. Their memory is always a blessing#Jewish
@Riotgrandma72 @histodons Do you have any images of theirs?
@auschwitzmuseum @histodons of them? No. I only found these on Yad Vashem when I was researching my family to get my citizenship restored after Brexit. Breaks my heart that I never got to meet them.
@Riotgrandma72 @histodons They arrived at the camp on 27 February 1943 in a transport of 1,110 Jews deported from Berlin. Yet, because of their age, it is unlikely that they were registered in the camp.
@auschwitzmuseum @histodons my father told me they were affluent cultured Berliners. Refused to leave Germany as they believed the Germans would tire of Hitler. On my parents’ marriage certificate. Rafaele is written as a ‘Warehouseman’ presumably all he could find as the net closed. Alma regularly sent him a food parcel. He was interned here. When they ceased, he knew what had happened.

@Riotgrandma72 @auschwitzmuseum @histodons

Have you seen this? We have these "tripping stones" set into the pavement, with the names of people who used to live in a house nearby and died during the war - I found your grandparents listed on the website for it, but in Osnabrück, not Berlin. Seems like they only moved to Berlin in 1940.
https://stolpersteine-guide.de/map/biografie/1350/ehepaar-flatauer

Stolpersteine Guide

Erkunde die Geschichte hinter den Stolpersteinen direkt an dem Ort, an dem sie geschrieben wurde. Als App mit Führungen und Biografien für iOS und Android.

@Chldlktndncs yes, I have seen pics. And the shoes in Hungary
@Riotgrandma72 @auschwitzmuseum @histodons
A sad testimony to a depraved period in time. What a different World we would now live in if the attrocity of WW2 and the Holocaust had never been allowed to happen. Sadder still that many of the elements that did allow it to happen lurk ever large today. Do we never learn?
@auschwitzmuseum @histodons Hey, Leute. Folgt dem @auschwitzmuseum - jeden Tag aufs Neue schmerzhaft, aber so wichtig.