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Amateur chef, artist, writer. Professional reader, weirdo, and sleeper. 🐈‍⬛, 🐕, 🐕, and 🙇‍♂️ mom. I stand for humans pronouncing words properly, dangit. NO DMs, please. They'll be chucked without reading.
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tread of help
okay

this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today

some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how

article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:
oh boy I hate being right
May 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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4 May 1933 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Zsuzsika Schiffer, was born in Hatvan.

In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in Auschwitz.
May 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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1 May 1932 | German Jewish girl, Ruth Bogen, was born in Cologne. She emigrated to the Netherlands.

Deported from #Westerbork to Theresienstadt ghetto in September 1944 from where she was deported to #Auschwitz on 4 October. She was murdered in a gas chamber upon arrival.
May 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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29 April 1889 | A French Jew, Adrien Gougenheim, was born in Metz.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 2 September 1943. Registered in the camp. He did not survive.
April 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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28 April 1931 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Rachel Opdenberg, was born in The Hague.

In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered after selection in a gas chamber.
April 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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28 April 1943 | A French Jewish girl, Michèle Levy, was born in Paris.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 20 December 1943 in a transport of 850 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 505 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
April 28, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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19 April 1874 | A Dutch Jew, David Wessel, was born in Rotterdam.

In October 1942 he was deported from Westerbork to #Auschwitz. After the selection he was murdered in a gas chamber.
April 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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18 April 1907 | A Frenchman, Lucien Bellet, was born in Sotteville-lès-Rouen. A metal turner.

In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1942.
No. 45224
He perished in the camp on 1 November 1942.
April 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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17 April 1906 | A Polish Jew, Samuel Gross, was born in Krakow. An assembly worker.

In #Auschwitz from 18 May 1942.
No. 34705
He perished in the camp on 27 July 1942.
April 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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15 April 1913 | A Polish Jew, Jan Jakob Borowiecki, was born in Łódź. A worker.

In #Auschwitz from 17 March 1942.
No. 26863
Date of death: 29 march 1942.
April 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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13 April 1925 | A German Jew, Egon Kallmann Emanuel Freund, was born in Berlin. He emigrated to the Netherlands.

In 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork. Registered in the camp where he perished on 23 August 1942.
April 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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10 April 1944 | A transport of 935 Italian Jews arrested in Fossoli, Mantua and Verona arrived at #Auschwitz. SS doctors during the selection sent 701 people to be murdered in gas chambers. One of them was Attilio della Torre (b. 1873 in Florence). He was 71.
April 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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9 April 1920 | Jewish woman, Marie (Marika) Amiel, was born in Thessaloniki. She emigrated to France.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 28 October 1943. She did not survive.
April 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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7 April 1939 | Czech Jewish girl Anna Fischlerová was born.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 16 October 1944 with her brother Jan (Hansi) (b. 1937). They were murdered in a gas chamber.
April 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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2 April 1924 | A German Jew, Samuel Goldman, was born in Dortmund.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 5 August 1942 in a transport of 998 Jews deported from Mechelen in occupied Belgium. He did not survive.
April 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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28 March 1935 | A French Jewish boy, Leon Ramo, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among the 892 people murdered in gas chambers immediately after selection.
March 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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26 March 1925 | Dutch Jewish girl, Alice Elizabeth Cohen, was born in Voorburg.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in September 1942. She did not survive.
March 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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15 March 1935 | A French Jewish girl, Paulette Wajnryb, was born in Metz.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 6 November 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among the 639 people murdered after selection in a gas chamber.
March 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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15 March 1903 | A Polish Jew, Rafał Rozenberg, was born. He lived in Brussels. A merchant.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 August 1943 in a transport of 1553 Jews from Mechelen. He did not survive.
March 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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9 March 1910 | A Polish Jew, Szmul Gutman, was born in Radom. A butcher.

In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 37490
He perished in the camp on 9 August 1942.
March 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The story of #Auschwitz is also the story of female perpetrators. Around 200 women served in the SS camp garrison: as guards (some were very brutal towards female prisoners), radio operators, nurses, or secretaries: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2021_nadzorc...

Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Km...
March 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Our lesson describes the fate of women in Auschwitz: from the creation of the female camp, living conditions, work & finally mass extermination in gas chambers and selections in the camp: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety...

Listen to a podcast about women in Auschwitz: youtube.com/watch?v=ijTx...
March 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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1,3 million people were deported to Auschwitz. Among some 400,000 people registered as prisoners, there were 131,000 #women: 82,000 Jewish, 31,000 Polish, 11,000 Roma as well as Russian, Belorussian, German, French, Czech & Yugoslavian. #InternationalWomensDay
March 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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3 March 1871 | A Pole, Józef Steczowicz, was born in Tymbark. A railwayman.

In #Auschwitz from 9 June 1941.
No. 17210
He perished in the camp on 27 November 1941.
March 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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1 March 1932 | German Jew, Hans Fred Aron, was born in Essen.

In January 1942 he was deported to the ghetto in Riga and in November 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
March 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM