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I AM JUDEN: UNDERCOVER IN THE SS
Best-selling true story of the Jew who posed as a Nazi guard in the Ghetto & Auschwitz, saving lives with the Resistance. Info here:
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Best-selling true story of the Jew who posed as a Nazi guard in the Ghetto & Auschwitz, saving lives with the Resistance. Info here:
https://stephenuzzell.co.uk/
Before the Holocaust, Arthur Lewy owned a tobacco shop in Berlin. Here he can be seen behind the counter.
#OTD in 1938, the Nazi regime issued the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life.
Jews like Arthur Levy were legally stripped of their business ownerships
#OTD in 1938, the Nazi regime issued the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life.
Jews like Arthur Levy were legally stripped of their business ownerships
November 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Before the Holocaust, Arthur Lewy owned a tobacco shop in Berlin. Here he can be seen behind the counter.
#OTD in 1938, the Nazi regime issued the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life.
Jews like Arthur Levy were legally stripped of their business ownerships
#OTD in 1938, the Nazi regime issued the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life.
Jews like Arthur Levy were legally stripped of their business ownerships
Mania Halef, a five-year-old Jewish girl murdered during the mass execution in Babi Yar, September 30th 1941
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Mania Halef, a five-year-old Jewish girl murdered during the mass execution in Babi Yar, September 30th 1941
Walter was born 1923 in Vienna. He was 14 when Nazi Germany occupied Austria in March 1938.
He witnessed the Kristallnacht pogrom on the night of 9th-10th November 1938, when Jewish synagogues, shops, businesses and homes were attacked and destroyed across Germany and Austria
He witnessed the Kristallnacht pogrom on the night of 9th-10th November 1938, when Jewish synagogues, shops, businesses and homes were attacked and destroyed across Germany and Austria
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Walter was born 1923 in Vienna. He was 14 when Nazi Germany occupied Austria in March 1938.
He witnessed the Kristallnacht pogrom on the night of 9th-10th November 1938, when Jewish synagogues, shops, businesses and homes were attacked and destroyed across Germany and Austria
He witnessed the Kristallnacht pogrom on the night of 9th-10th November 1938, when Jewish synagogues, shops, businesses and homes were attacked and destroyed across Germany and Austria
“Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels encouraged ant-Semitic demonstrations. And on the night of November 9, 1938 Nazi mobs took to the streets.” - narrator Bill Kurtis, “Through the Decades”
#NeverAgain #Kristallnacht
#NeverAgain #Kristallnacht
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels encouraged ant-Semitic demonstrations. And on the night of November 9, 1938 Nazi mobs took to the streets.” - narrator Bill Kurtis, “Through the Decades”
#NeverAgain #Kristallnacht
#NeverAgain #Kristallnacht
Gusta Dawison Draenger, leader of the Krakow Ghetto resistance, wrote her memoirs on scraps of prison toilet paper after being arrested. She was executed #OTD 8 November 1943. Honoured to tell her story in I AM JUDEN.
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Gusta Dawison Draenger, leader of the Krakow Ghetto resistance, wrote her memoirs on scraps of prison toilet paper after being arrested. She was executed #OTD 8 November 1943. Honoured to tell her story in I AM JUDEN.
Hannah Senesh, a poet and national heroine in Israel, was a paratrooper trained to rescue Jews in Hungary during the Shoah. She was captured and killed #OTD November 7th, 79 years ago.
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Hannah Senesh, a poet and national heroine in Israel, was a paratrooper trained to rescue Jews in Hungary during the Shoah. She was captured and killed #OTD November 7th, 79 years ago.
My name is Arnold van Emden. I was born in The Hague on January 29th 1941. The following year, my Jewish family were deported to Auschwitz.
I was carried into the gas chamber.
Remember the 6 million.
I was carried into the gas chamber.
Remember the 6 million.
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My name is Arnold van Emden. I was born in The Hague on January 29th 1941. The following year, my Jewish family were deported to Auschwitz.
I was carried into the gas chamber.
Remember the 6 million.
I was carried into the gas chamber.
Remember the 6 million.
Mania Halef, a five-year-old Jewish girl murdered during the mass execution in Babi Yar, September 1941.
November 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Mania Halef, a five-year-old Jewish girl murdered during the mass execution in Babi Yar, September 1941.
4-year-old Istvan Reiner smiles for a portrait shortly before being murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
4-year-old Istvan Reiner smiles for a portrait shortly before being murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
A liberated Jewish Holocaust survivor turning the tables
November 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A liberated Jewish Holocaust survivor turning the tables
My name is Frederika Madeleine van Coevorden. I was born in Amsterdam in November, 1941.
In July 1942 my family was deported to #Auschwitz. I was carried into the gas chambers.
Murdered at eight months old.
In July 1942 my family was deported to #Auschwitz. I was carried into the gas chambers.
Murdered at eight months old.
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
My name is Frederika Madeleine van Coevorden. I was born in Amsterdam in November, 1941.
In July 1942 my family was deported to #Auschwitz. I was carried into the gas chambers.
Murdered at eight months old.
In July 1942 my family was deported to #Auschwitz. I was carried into the gas chambers.
Murdered at eight months old.
One of the most famous "Night Witches", Nadezhda Popova, pictured here. Popova flew 852 missions during the war. She passed away in 2013 at the age of 91.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
One of the most famous "Night Witches", Nadezhda Popova, pictured here. Popova flew 852 missions during the war. She passed away in 2013 at the age of 91.
#OTD October 29, 1941 The Kaunas massacre of 2007 Jewish men, 2920 Jewish women & 4273 Jewish children by Einsatzkommandos & Lithuanian collaborators, the largest massacre of Lithuanian Jews known as the #GreatAction. I write about this in I AM JUDEN #Holocaust #WW2
October 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#OTD October 29, 1941 The Kaunas massacre of 2007 Jewish men, 2920 Jewish women & 4273 Jewish children by Einsatzkommandos & Lithuanian collaborators, the largest massacre of Lithuanian Jews known as the #GreatAction. I write about this in I AM JUDEN #Holocaust #WW2
My name is Edita Weiszová. I was born in Prague in 1932. I was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto #OTD 28th October 1944. I was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
This is a photograph of me at the age of two.
This is a photograph of me at the age of two.
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
My name is Edita Weiszová. I was born in Prague in 1932. I was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto #OTD 28th October 1944. I was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
This is a photograph of me at the age of two.
This is a photograph of me at the age of two.
Rabbi Nissen Mangel returned to Auschwitz with 100 relatives.
As a child Nissen Mangel survived Auschwitz as well as four other concentration camps.
#OTD 27th October 2023, on his 90th birthday, he returned with his wife, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
As a child Nissen Mangel survived Auschwitz as well as four other concentration camps.
#OTD 27th October 2023, on his 90th birthday, he returned with his wife, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
October 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Rabbi Nissen Mangel returned to Auschwitz with 100 relatives.
As a child Nissen Mangel survived Auschwitz as well as four other concentration camps.
#OTD 27th October 2023, on his 90th birthday, he returned with his wife, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
As a child Nissen Mangel survived Auschwitz as well as four other concentration camps.
#OTD 27th October 2023, on his 90th birthday, he returned with his wife, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
A terribly sad day in #Latvia. #OTD October 25, 1941 The #RigaGhetto in #Latvia was established. #Holocaust #WWII #WW2 #History
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A terribly sad day in #Latvia. #OTD October 25, 1941 The #RigaGhetto in #Latvia was established. #Holocaust #WWII #WW2 #History
My name is Sergio Mieli. I was born ✡️ in Italy, in March 1925. I arrived at Auschwitz #OTD 23rd October 1943 in a transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome. I did not survive.
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My name is Sergio Mieli. I was born ✡️ in Italy, in March 1925. I arrived at Auschwitz #OTD 23rd October 1943 in a transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome. I did not survive.
Nazi officers placed under arrest by French forces in Paris on the day the city was liberated, August 26 in 1944. Photo: AP.
October 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Nazi officers placed under arrest by French forces in Paris on the day the city was liberated, August 26 in 1944. Photo: AP.
My name is Benjamin van Dam. I was born in Groningen, Holland, on the 28th May 1935.
#OTD 19 October 1942 I was deported from Westerbork to #Auschwitz with my parents Luis & Fanny and my sister Jenny. We were all murdered there.
This portrait is all that remains of us.
#OTD 19 October 1942 I was deported from Westerbork to #Auschwitz with my parents Luis & Fanny and my sister Jenny. We were all murdered there.
This portrait is all that remains of us.
October 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
My name is Benjamin van Dam. I was born in Groningen, Holland, on the 28th May 1935.
#OTD 19 October 1942 I was deported from Westerbork to #Auschwitz with my parents Luis & Fanny and my sister Jenny. We were all murdered there.
This portrait is all that remains of us.
#OTD 19 October 1942 I was deported from Westerbork to #Auschwitz with my parents Luis & Fanny and my sister Jenny. We were all murdered there.
This portrait is all that remains of us.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portugal's consul-general in Bordeaux, defied his government & issued visas to Jews to save them from the Nazis.
He may have saved more than any other individual. Estimations between 10,000 and 30,000 Jews were saved.
Honoured by Yad Vashem #OTD 1966
He may have saved more than any other individual. Estimations between 10,000 and 30,000 Jews were saved.
Honoured by Yad Vashem #OTD 1966
October 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portugal's consul-general in Bordeaux, defied his government & issued visas to Jews to save them from the Nazis.
He may have saved more than any other individual. Estimations between 10,000 and 30,000 Jews were saved.
Honoured by Yad Vashem #OTD 1966
He may have saved more than any other individual. Estimations between 10,000 and 30,000 Jews were saved.
Honoured by Yad Vashem #OTD 1966
Young man sits on an overturned stool next to a burnt body inside the Thekla concentration subcamp outside Leipzig, Germany soon after its liberation by U.S. forces on April 18, 1945.
ERIC SCHWAB/AFP/Getty Images
ERIC SCHWAB/AFP/Getty Images
October 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Young man sits on an overturned stool next to a burnt body inside the Thekla concentration subcamp outside Leipzig, Germany soon after its liberation by U.S. forces on April 18, 1945.
ERIC SCHWAB/AFP/Getty Images
ERIC SCHWAB/AFP/Getty Images
My name is Marie Fischerová. I was born in May 1929, in Czechoslovakia.
I was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto #OTD 16 October 1944. I did not survive, but my photograph did.
Remember me, please
I was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto #OTD 16 October 1944. I did not survive, but my photograph did.
Remember me, please
October 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
My name is Marie Fischerová. I was born in May 1929, in Czechoslovakia.
I was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto #OTD 16 October 1944. I did not survive, but my photograph did.
Remember me, please
I was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto #OTD 16 October 1944. I did not survive, but my photograph did.
Remember me, please
Women in the barracks at Auschwitz, January 1945.
October 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Women in the barracks at Auschwitz, January 1945.
In 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. The fighters held out for nearly a month before they were defeated. 13,000 Jews were killed.
Years later in 1968, survivors from the Warsaw Ghetto gathered together at a rally in Tel Aviv.
Years later in 1968, survivors from the Warsaw Ghetto gathered together at a rally in Tel Aviv.
October 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. The fighters held out for nearly a month before they were defeated. 13,000 Jews were killed.
Years later in 1968, survivors from the Warsaw Ghetto gathered together at a rally in Tel Aviv.
Years later in 1968, survivors from the Warsaw Ghetto gathered together at a rally in Tel Aviv.
Eighty years ago, Dutch born Klara Borstel-Engelsman became the oldest known victim of the Holocaust. She was murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz on 12th October 1944.
Klara was 102 years old.
Klara was 102 years old.
October 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Eighty years ago, Dutch born Klara Borstel-Engelsman became the oldest known victim of the Holocaust. She was murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz on 12th October 1944.
Klara was 102 years old.
Klara was 102 years old.