Reha was one of few names allowed to Jewish girls. Her divorced parents were also deported. Father Freddy became weak: Gassed at 24. Sis Eva and her mum Elisabeth survived. The latter emigrated to Palestine, Eva married Officer Ross Brewster, settled in Canada and wrote 2 books on Auschwitz&family.

From the photographs of Willi Georg: A starving child on a street in the Warsaw ghetto. June 1941.

9/9 Angela's birth certificate

8/n But Angela, who was born in Auschwitz on December 21, 1944, fortunately proved them all wrong. As one of the youngest survivors from the Holocaust, she has no tattoo but an indelible mark on her life that she shares for a reason – to teach the younger generations.

7/n She didn’t even officially have a name until the Soviets liberated the camp. Orosz explained that her mother and those around her felt the baby was living on borrowed time. “This one will be an angel, she's going to die so let's give her the name Angela.”

4/n sharing a bed. Orosz said the beds like her mother’s typically didn’t have mattresses but were made of plain straw. Mengele injected various poisons into her cervix. These left her sterile, but did not kill the fetus. A Jewish camp doctor tried to convince her to abort the

2/n The ramp they arrived on was the last time Velska saw him. Orosz said she was constantly reminded of the word “Auschwitz” growing up. “I knew always Auschwitz. Velska and her husband arrived in Auschwitz in 1944

Born in Auschwitz - Angela Orosz 1/n Her mother Velska was three months pregnant and when she was rounded up by the Nazis and taken to the camp. When she and her husband arrived in May 1944, she along with the Jewish people were immediately separated by gender.

11/11 flour from us, kiss me, just as long as they didn’t kill me, only that they should let me live. Now I see that friendly gendarme has let Mariska come in. I can’t write anymore, dear diary, the tears run from my eyes, I’m hurrying over to Mariska … Col. main photo: John Cocker @joecocker15

9/n all I think about is Márta, and I’m afraid that what happened to her is going to happen to us, too. It’s no use that everybody says that we’re not going to Poland but to Balaton. Eva's mother, Agnes Zsolt, (right) escaped to Switzerland on the Kasztner train in December 1944

3/n Eva's last entry, May 30, 1944 Dear diary, everybody says we’re going to stay in Hungary; the Jews from all over the country are being brought to the Lake Balaton area and we are going to work there. But I don’t believe it. Eva as a young child

Eva Heyman - The Hungarian Anne Frank 1/n Eva Heyman was born in Nagyvarad, Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) in 1933. Eva began her diary in February 1944 and ended it in May. She was deported to Auschwitz a short time later, and was gassed on 17 October 1944.

In a letter that Jewish boy Hans Ament sent from Izieu to his mother in a sanatorium, the ten-year-old wrote: "100,000,000 big kisses from your son who is always thinking of you." On 30 May 1944 he was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz where he was murdered.

Joseph Geubbels on The Big Lie 1/2 “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.

Aleksander Stupel was born in Wilno, Poland in 1900 to Meir and Maria. He was a violinist and single. Prior to WWII he lived in Kaunas, Lithuania. During the war, he was part of the Kovno ghetto orchestra. Aleksander died in 1944 in Dachau. Alexander (Shmaya) Stupel (standing at the top right)

4/4 crematorium. they said there was a camp there… but nobody knew… it was so close, and so far..." Pinchas Tzimerman After the war, only 270 Jews from Trzebinia remained alive.

3/n Reich borders. A week later, those who remained were sent to Auschwitz, where they were murdered in the gas chambers on arrival. "Just 19 kilometers from Auschwitz… we knew about Auschwitz, but we didn’t know then, in our time, that they burnt people there, that it was a

2/n On 29 May 1942, the deportation of the Jews of Trzebinia began. That day, SS and German police forces surrounded the ghetto, and selection was carried out. The young and healthy were sent to work in factories in the nearby town of Chrzanów and forced labor camps within the

Trzebinia, Chrzanów District, Kraków Region, Poland 1/n On the eve of WWII, about 1,500 Jews lived in Trzebinia (Yiddish: Chebin), a community bubbling with Chassidic life and Torah learning, Zionism and a pioneering spirit, political parties and youth movements.

8/8 could not conclusively prove her involvement in committing such crimes. However, she was convicted of being a part of the common design to abuse prisoners and was sentenced to life in prison. In 1967 she hanged herself in her cell at the women’s prison in Aichach, Germany.

7/n “interesting” tattoos to be killed and their skin turned into artifacts such as lampshades, book covers, …. Despite the testimony of former prisoners who were forced to make such grisly objects, prosecutors Tattooed skin: the only items to be proven human.

5/n that should have gone to the SS, was relieved of command at the end of 1941. An SS court convicted him of corruption and graft, and he was executed by the SS in 1945. After World War II, Koch and her children went to live in Ludwigsburg, a suburb of Stuttgart,

3/n beating prisoners with her riding crop and forcing them to perform physically exhausting activities for her own amusement. Koch and her husband enjoyed a lavish lifestyle in an elegant house on Buchenwald’s grounds, and he had a horseback-riding arena built especially for her

2/n On May 29, 1937, she married Karl Otto Koch, a colonel in the SS who was commander of the Sachsenhausen camp. In the summer of 1937 he was transferred to Buchenwald, then a new concentration camp near Weimar. There Koch acquired her reputation as a sadist and nymphomaniac,

Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald. She became famous as "The Witch of Buchenwald". 🧵 1/n

2/3 The German executioner is most likely represents Gerhard Palitzsch. Palitzsch was later transfferred by the SS itself for theft & corruption. Shortly after he was arrested, sent back to Auschwitz, and jailed in Block 11. Accused of “Race Defilement” and theft, Palitzsch was

🧵 1/3 11 November 1941, Polish Independence Day. The first execution by a shot in the back of the head took place in Auschwitz. On that day, 151 Poles were shot in the courtyard of Block 11.

7/7 The last child to be killed under Aktion T4 was Richard Jenne on 29 May 1945, in the children's ward of the Kaufbeuren-Irsee hospital in Bavaria, more than THREE weeks AFTER US Army troops had occupied the town. Richard Jenne, killed at Kaufbeuren-Irsee euthanasia facility.

6/n His death marked the start of one of the most hideous programmes of World War Two, the mass murder of the mentally ill and the physically disabled throughout Germany and some of its occupied territories. The programme would come to be known as Aktion T4. 300,000 were murdered

5/n Hitler told Brandt that if the was as severely disabled as the father claimed, Brandt had his permission to kill the child. Brandt duly examined Gerhard and concluded that the child was beyond help. With Hitler’s blessing, the child was killed, probably by lethal injection on 25 July 1939.