Auschwitz Memorial20,000+ followers here at #Mastodon after less than three days is a huge encouragement.
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Carol Hedges@auschwitzmuseum @histodons Lost my grandparents at #Auschwitz. Their memory is always a blessing#Jewish
Davie5456@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.
Mara Mac@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
@Chldlktndncs yes, I have seen pics. And the shoes in Hungary
Adrian Owlett@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?
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?