The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous provides financial support to non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust and teaches the history of the Holocaust
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Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to #JFRRescuer Vasil N., who is turning 95 today! ππ
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June 14, 1940
The first transport of Poles arrives at Auschwitz from a prison in TarnΓ³w. Among 728 people, there were some 20 Jews. This date is considered to be the beginning of the functioning of Auschwitz.
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We asked Lerner Fellow Agnieszka Kus what she thinks is the most crucial lesson her students should learn from studying the Holocaust and she shared this important insight β¬οΈ
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June 10, 1940
The Nazis destroyed the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice and killed all of its male inhabitants in retaliation for Heydrichβs assassination
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Please join us in wishing a happy birthday #JFRRescuer Maria G. who is turning 100 today! ππ
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June 7, 1942
All Jews age 6 in France were ordered to wear a yellow star on the left side of the chest, with the inscription "Juif" inside
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June 6, 1944
Today marks 81 years since the #AlliedForces invaded Western Europe at Normandy in what is known as #DDAY
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Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to #JFRRescuer Helena W. who is celebrating her 97th birthday! ππ
Visit our website (π in bio) to watch the documentary we produced about her life
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June 3, 1944
American troops entered Rome in order to liberate it from Nazi occupation
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The Germans occupied Brussels in May 1940. By June 1942, the occupation became repressive. Alice Schiffer rescued & adopted 2 Jewish children- Inge & Lydia Kollman- & placed them in the convent where she cared for them until the end of the war #JFRRescuer
π·: Alice with Inge
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Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to #JFRrescuer Stanislawa S. from Poland who is turning 98 today! ππ
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Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to #JFRrescuer Andrzej M. from Poland who is turning 88 today! ππ
More than 300 descendants of the 13 people he and his brother are alive today because of their heroism. Visit our website (π in bio) to learn more
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May 31, 1962
Today marks 60 years since Adolf Eichmann was found guilty and was hanged. His ashes were sprinkled over the Mediterranean Sea, outside of Israel's territorial waters
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May 30, 1943
SS Captain Dr. Josef Mengele arrived at Auschwitz to begin his medical experiments on camp inmates
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May 29, 1938
The first anti-Jewish law was passed in Hungary
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π From the JFR Library:
This month we recommend On Duty: The Polish Blue & Criminal Police in the Holocaust by Jan Grabowski.
Click here to read a review of the book: jfr.org/recommended-reading/β¦
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May 27, 1942
High ranking SS official Reinhard Heydrich was mortally wounded in an assassination attempt by members of the Czech underground. He died on June 4, 1942
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Krystyna Danko was close friends with her classmate, Helena. With the outbreak of war, Helena's family was forced into the Otwock ghetto. At great personal risk, Krystyna went to incredible lengths to help Helena's family escape the Nazis #JFRrescuer
jfr.org/rescuer-stories/dankβ¦
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430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz between May & June 1944. Most were gassed immediately upon arrival.
π·: Jewish women & children from Subcarpathian Rus await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
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