Director of Strategy and Policy for the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...all tweets are my own.
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30.12.1942|Blessed๐บ๐ฆPriest Emilian Kowcz was arrested in Przemyลlany for aiding, baptising & sheltering Jews. He was taken to the Gestapo prison at ลฤ
cki St. in Lviv from where he was deported to #Majdanek 8 months later. The parson of Majdanek perished in the camp in March 1944.
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27 December 1927 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Meijer Koster, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
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A Polish man, Aleksander Kosmalski
He was a tram driver from Warsaw. He perished in the German #Auschwitz camp on 24 December 1941.
He was 42.
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We are patrolling the South Sandwich Islands, carrying out scientific observations and hydrographic surveys. This is Southern Thule, discovered by Capt Cook in 1775. It was surrounded by large concentrations of glacial ice from the Weddell Sea which required some careful driving!
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December 15-17, 1941 | Around 2,700-2,800 Jews of Liepaja (Latvia) are massacred, most of them women and children. In the picture, Jewish women before their execution in Skede, occupied Latvia.
๐ธ Yad Vashem Photo Archive
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13 December 1943 | A French Jewish boy, Leon Herbstman, was born in Vichy.
On 13 April 1944, he was deported from #Drancy to #Auschwitz in a group of 1,500 Jews.
On 16 April 1944, he was murdered in a gas chamber together with his mom Frida and father Henri.
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11 December 1937 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Louis Salomon Goudsmid, was born in Kampen.
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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05.12.1942| Around 3,000 Jews were deported from Przemyลlany (Peremyshliany) to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Beลลผec. The transport included the Jews who had been herded in from Gliniany (Hlyniany) several days earlier. They were all murdered in the gas chambers.
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5 December 1935 | Dutch Jewish girl Annie Koekoek was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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๐little baby girls are seeing their daddy off at the war.
We, Ukrainians, will never forget what we fight for!
Neither should you! Because it is for peace in your countries as well.
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29 November 1930 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Rosette Overst, was born in Amsterdam.
In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Today we're joining #Antarctica, the #Arctic and the rest of the world in celebrating #PolarPride - promoting diversity in polar science. Travel Teddy, Ops Manager Vicki Foster's companion at #KingEdwardPoint is flying the flag for #SouthGeorgia ๐ โ at Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
ALT A small cuddly teddy, holding a large rainbow flag, sitting on a snow coloured hill in front of the snow capped mountains of South Georgia's interior
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15 November 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Robert Julius de Vries, was born in Haarlem.
In March 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz with his mother Lea. On 5 March they were murdered together in a gas chamber after the selection.
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14 November 1926 | A Dutch Jewish boy, August Schaap, was born in Lathen.
In #Auschwitz from 27 October 1942.
No. 70993
He perished in the camp on 9 December 1942.
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13 November 1923 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Charlotte Content, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
We are still here.
Ry'n ni yma o hyd, er gwaetha pawb a phopeth.
Er dued yw'r fagddu o'n cwmpas, ry'n ni'n barod am doriad y wawr!
#ArBenYByd | #TogetherStronger | #YWalGoch
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7 November 1906 | A Frenchman, Charles Bonnel, was born in Paris.
In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1942.
No. 45273
He perished in the camp on 12 August 1942.
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1 November 1944 | A Polish man, Jan Cupiaล, who was sentenced to death by the Gestapo summary court, was executed by shooting in #Auschwitz.
A day before his death he left a message for his wife. Read it below.
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31 October 1893 | Dutch Jew Samuel van Beem was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz in January 1943 and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
