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sylvia hinz
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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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11 February 1923 | A Polish man, Stanislaw Arwaj, was born in Warsaw.

In #Auschwitz from 26 June 1942.
No. 41646
He perished in the camp on 13 August 1942.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/
February 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Mid-weekly reminder:

If you plan to release new singles or albums, or hold an online event (listening parties, concerts, etc) NEXT WEEK, February 16th to February 22nd, tell me about it!
I'm putting this list together every SUNDAY evening.
Artists, bands and labels of all genres are welcome! 👍
🎶 New MUSIC by Blue Sky artists! Feb. 9 - Feb. 15 🎶

SINGLES
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ALBUMS
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ONLINE EVENTS
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👉 If something is missing from these lists, please feel free to drop the links under the appropriate threads! 👈
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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Fritz Prager (born #OTD in 1883) gave his last public performance in 1933. In the Judische Kulturbund he conducted cabaret and was expelled from the RKK in Aug 1935. Prager escaped to Shanghai with his wife in Nov 1938 where he led the Russian Light Opera.
www.lexm.uni-hamburg...
February 11, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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11 February 1923 | Dutch Jewish woman, Elisabeth van Kleef, was born in Amsterdam. During the war, she was in Belgium.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 30 July 1943. She did not survive.

February 12, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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10 February 1924 | French Jewish woman, Claude Levy, was born in Lyon.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 27 March 1944. She did not survive.
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▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
February 11, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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10 February 1924 | Helena Meislová, a Czech Jewish girl, was born (on the right).

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943 together with her sister Vlasta and their parents, Ota & Arnoštka. None of them survived.
February 11, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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10 February 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl Sura Ferencz was born.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chamber.
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📖 Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/
February 11, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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10 February 1923 | A Pole, Bolesław Hermanowicz, was born.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 707
He was transferred to KL Neuengemme. He did not survive.
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▶ The first transport of Poles to Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/46FZpeW
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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10 February 1929 | A Polish Jewish girl, Maryla Grinbaum, was born in Krakow.

She was imprisoned in KL Plaszow, and in May 1944 she was transferred to Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/46ryjrT
February 11, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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10 February 1932 | German Jewish girl, Ruth Mentzel, was born in Berlin. She emigrated to France.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 31 July 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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▶ The ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://bit.ly/4ql4LTV
February 11, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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The ruins of the gas chamber and crematorium II at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site.

▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

It had a 210-square-meter gas chamber & five 3-muffle ovens.


Video: instagram.com/elisaaa.pastore
February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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10 February 1885 | A German Jew, Alfred Dänn, was born in Wohlau. A merchant.

In #Auschwitz from 18 September 1942.
No. 64312
He perished in the camp 8 days later.
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🎧/📖 Registration photos in Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/4adWOeJ
February 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Updated with 19 additional bands and solo artists! 👍
Starting the sixtieth Starter Pack with all the bands, orchestras, independent labels, and musicians I can find on Blue Sky!

Please have a look, follow some or all of them, and share this pack here and in other places!

This is a work in progress and will be updated!

go.bsky.app/Fpn2Qwm
February 10, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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Berthold Brecht's exile during and after WWII shaped his personal and professional trajectory. Forced to flee Germany, Brecht's exile took him across Europe before settling in the US, where he encountered both opportunities and hostility.
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February 10, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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10 February 1940 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Gábor Neumann, was born in Békéscsaba.

In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Parliament has adopted changes to the EU asylum procedure.

This should enable faster processing of asylum requests.

Learn more ↓
Asylum: new rules for safe third countries and EU safe countries of origin list | News | European Parliament
On Tuesday, Parliament adopted changes to the EU asylum procedure regulations to enable faster processing of asylum requests.
www.europarl.europa.eu
February 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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In Anbetracht der Nachrichtenlage wäre es angemessen, mehrere politische Talkshows zu sexualisierter und häuslicher Gewalt zu machen mit mind. 80% weiblichen Gästen.

Dass es sie nicht gibt und geben wird, erzählt viel über misogyne Strukturen in Bereichen, die sich für objektiv & aufgeklärt halten.
February 10, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man
February 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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9 February 1898 | A Czech Jew, Jindřich Lampl, was born in Bechyně.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 29 September 1944. He did not survive.
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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9 February 1913 | A Polish Jew, Samuel Salamon, was born in Lesko. A worker.

In #Auschwitz from 30 March 1942.
No. 27524
He perished in the camp on 7 April 1942.
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📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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9 February 1903 | A Frenchman, Octave Hervaux, was born in Romorantin-Lanthenay. An electromechanic.

In #Auschwitz on 8 July 1942.
No. 45660
He perished in the camp on 18 August 1942.
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🎧/📖 Registration photos in Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/4adWOeJ
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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9 February 1929 | A French Jewish boy, Raymond Bialek, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 9 August 1942 in a transport of 1,069 Jews deported from Pithiviers. He was among the 794 people murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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9 February 1923 | A Polish Jewish woman, Chawa Rosenfarb, was born in Łódź. A writer creating in Yiddish.

Deported from Litzmannstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in August 1944. Liberated in Bergen-Belsen. From 1950, she lived in Canada. She passed away in 2011.
https://bit.ly/3ZYd5hC
February 10, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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9 February 1905 | A Pole, Jan Czyszanowski, was born in Dolina near Sanok. A professional driver.

In #Auschwitz from 7 July 1942.
No. 45113
He perished in the camp on 24 August 1942.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM