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We are the world leader for research informed teacher and student Holocaust education. Part of IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society.
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    Aug 18, 2024
    In 2016 a British man who saved the lives of 669 mostly Jewish children during the Holocaust feat. in set of Royal Mail stamps, honouring UK's greatest humanitarians & their achievements. Ahead of tomorrow's #WorldHumanitarianDay we remember Sir Nicholas Winton.
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    May 9, 2023
    OTD in 1921 Sophie Scholl was born. A member of the anti Nazi resistance group, The White Rose, Sophie, along with brother Hans & Christoph Probst, was convicted of high treason in Feb 1943, for distributing anti-war leaflets. They were executed by guillotine. Sophie was 22.
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    Nov 1, 2022
    OTD in 1944, #JehovahsWitness Jonathan Stark was executed by hanging at Sachsenhausen. He was fired from his job due to his faith, & when conscripted for Reich labour service in Oct, 1943, refused to take an oath to Hitler & the state. He was interned, then murdered, aged 18.
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    Apr 9, 2023
    Anne Frank (1929-1945) & her sister Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen in late October 1944 & housed in the ‘Women’s Camp’. They died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen within days of each other in March 1945. #Belsen78
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    Apr 12, 2023
    A British man, Harold Le Druillenec, was liberated at #Belsen. He had survived several camps, inc. Neuengamme, having been informed upon, arrested & imprisoned in 1944 for helping his sister, Louisa Gould. Learn more: frankfallaarchive.org RT #Belsen78
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    Mar 13, 2023
    OTD in 1995 Franciszek Gajowniczek died , aged 94. He was a soldier & former prisoner of #Auschwitz (no. 5659). He was saved from starvation death by the sacrifice of Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to take Gajowniczek's place.
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    May 5, 2023
    Karl Gorath was just 26 when a "jealous lover" denounced him as a gay man. He spent years in the concentration camp system until he was liberated from Mauthausen, OTD in 1945. Post-war he faced further difficulties. Learn more: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/id-… via @HolocaustMuseum
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    Oct 8, 2022
    OTD in 1942 Leon Greenman, his wife Else, & toddler Barney, were arrested at their home in Rotterdam in Holland. It marked a turning point or the family, that would eventually led them to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where only Leon would survive. RT @soper_mr @hmccord78 @IOE_London
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    Apr 13, 2023
    Bet. 6-11th April 1945, the Nazis 2,500 ‘exchange Jews’ from Bergen-Belsen were deported towards Theresienstadt concentration camp. One train was liberated by the US Army, near Farsleben. ⬇️📸, taken by a American soldier & discovered in 2001, captures moment of liberation.
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    Jul 1, 2023
    OTD in 2015, #SirNicholasWinton passed away, aged 106. He saved the lives of 699 Jewish children from the Nazi regime. In 2016 he featured in a set of Royal Mail stamps, honouring UK's greatest humanitarians & their achievements. Today we remember his live & legacy.
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    Oct 15, 2022
    In Oct 1942, in occupied Soviet Union, many Jews were killed in the streets, in forests & local rock quarries. At Novogrudok (Belarussia) 50 Jews escaped from the Germans & joined local resistance led by Tuvia Bielski. 1,800 Jews were seized at Radziwillow, Ukraine, 600 escaped.
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    Nov 20, 2022
    In 2016 a British man who saved the lives of 669 mostly Jewish children during the Holocaust feat. in a set of Royal Mail stamps, honouring UK's greatest humanitarians & their achievements. On this #WorldChildrensDay we remember Sir Nicholas Winton. RT
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    May 8, 2023
    OTD in 1943, Mordechai Anielewicz' & comrades resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ended. The fighters retreated to Mila 18. End near, he wrote: "My life's dream has come true; I have lived to see Jewish resistance in the ghetto in all its greatness & glory." RT @AR_Pearce
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    Oct 2, 2022
    Today we share the story of Hans Hauck who was born in 1920 in Frankfurt; the son of a German mother & an Algerian soldier who served in the French army. Aged 17, Hans was arrested by the Nazis because he was a black person of “mixed blood”. 1/2 #BlackHistoryMonth RT @soper_mr