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recorder player & media artist @ #RecorderPower 🦉 & industrial noise @ Catenation 🦇 & contemporary music - experimental - improvisation & bass @ coma cluster void #feminism https://www.sylviahinz.com/ https://www.patreon.com/dissonant_witchcraft

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sylvia hinz @sylviahinz.bsky.social · Apr 10

You can still donate via the KO-FI Link 💚:
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hello everyone, thanks to anyone who sent messages and who donated for Sylvia.
She is home after a major surgery, and tries to rest with binge watching Deep Space Nine.
Although she is on a good way, it is a long and rough one, but the music and the noise is strong.
You can still donate via the KO-FI Link <3

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Music and the Holocaust @holocaustmusic.bsky.social · 11h

Violinist and composer Emil Leyvand (born #OTD in 1923) was drafted in 1943 but sent back to Moscow because of his violin playing. He composed his Poeme about the Holocaust in the 1970s.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 11h

In 1920s Hamburg, a dancer couple created wild, Expressionist costumes that looked like retro robots and Bauhaus knights. After nearly a century in obscurity, these costumes were brought to light and restored.

Avant-Garde 1920s Costumes Reemerge, Revealing Their Makers’ Tragic Story

In 1920s Hamburg, a dancer couple created wild, Expressionist costumes that looked like retro robots and Bauhaus knights.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 11h

Writing about the new biography, "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler," @ainamarzia.bsky.social reflects on a literary mastermind whose oeuvre has become a centerpiece of Black liberation

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The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

In a new biography, Susana M. Morris reflects on the devolution of American empire through the lens of Butler’s life

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10h

10 October 1944 | SS detained four female Jewish prisoners: Ella Gartner, Róża Robota, Regina Safir & Estera Wajsblum.

They were involved in smuggling explosives that were used by the Sonderkommando prisoners during their revolt on 7 October 1944.

The women were hanged on 6 January 1945.

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Black and white portrait of a woman smiling, wearing a light blouse with a floral pattern.

Black and white passport-style photo of a woman with light hair and a neutral expression, set against a patterned background.

Black and white portrait of a woman wearing a hat and a collared shirt, looking slightly to the side with a subtle smile.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8h

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

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Music and the Holocaust @holocaustmusic.bsky.social · 6h

Margherita Grandi (born #OTD in 1892), an Italian dramatic soprano, was interned in Avellino, near Naples, before being rescued by her husband to the Alps. There she actively supported the partisans and smuggled Allied airmen into Switzerland.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 6h

10 October 1933 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Vera Erdesz, was born.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Vintage sepia-tone photograph of a smiling girl with braided hair.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 6h

10 October 1943 | After the selection of 1,000 Jews deported to Auschwitz from Drancy, 491 people were immediately murdered in the gas chamber.

One of those killed was Charlotte Salomon, a German-Jewish artist from Berlin. The author of the autobiographical series "Life? or Theater?: A Song-play".

A girl, Charlotte Salomon, painting outsite. She is sitting surrounded by grass.

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Music and the Holocaust @holocaustmusic.bsky.social · 9h

Composer, conductor, musician and lawyer Wolfgang Fraenkel was born #OTD in 1897. In Nov 1938, Fraenkel was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. He was released shortly after, on condition that he leave Germany immediately. He left around April 1939 for Shanghai.
www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 3h

11 October 1891 | A Czech Jewish woman, Kitty Mautnerová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

Portrait of a woman, featuring a vintage black and white photo with a signature at the bottom.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

9 November 1891 | Czech Jewish woman, Eliška Budlovská, was born in Benešov.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 January 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 1910 | A Pole, Antoni Dysiek, was born in Skrzynno. A teacher.

In #Auschwitz from 14 May 1942.
No. 35405
He perished in the camp in 1942.
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Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 1906 | A Dutch Jew, Jacob Muijs, was born in Amsterdam.

In April 1943, he perished in #Auschwitz.
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Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 1932 | A French Jewish girl, Rose Aboulafia, was born in Paris.

In April 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her mother Victoria and younger sister Odette. They were murdered in a gas chamber.
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Ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Vintage black and white photo featuring two young girls, one seated and the other standing, posing for a portrait with a blurry background.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 1887 | A Hungarian Jew, Ivan Balog, was born in Mátraballa.

In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
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Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 1886 | A Polish woman, Marianna Czapla, was born in Przedbórz.

In #Auschwitz from 1 July 1942.
No. 8122
She perished in the camp on 25 September 1942.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

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Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora @buchenwald-dora.bsky.social · 17h

Im Oktober 1939 erreichten großen Transporte aus Polen den Weimarer Hauptbahnhof. Neue Häftlinge wurden in aller Öffentlichkeit von SS-Leuten und Hilfspolizisten durch den Tunneldurchgang getrieben und in Lastwagen gezwängt.

https://weimar-im-ns.pulse.ly/dsbz5rvwdi

#Buchenwald #Weimar #Holocaust

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Music and the Holocaust @holocaustmusic.bsky.social · 1d

American pilot and jazz drummer Eugene Bullard (born #today in 1895) spied for the French government on Germans who frequented his nightclub, L'Escadrille. In 1940, Bullard was wounded defending Orléans while serving with the French 51st Infantry.
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