This document dated 30.04.1943 contains the names of SS-men stationed at the #Majdanek camp. Two of them are particularly important: Heinrich Rindfleisch & Max Blancke were both SS-physicians, who in the spring and summer of 1943 conducted selections for the gas chambers.

29.04.1943|Adolf Górski was transferred to #Majdanek from the Gestapo prison at the #Lublin castle. Registered as inmate no. 1400 he was detained at field III. Adolf worked in the construction group. He also went through the Buchenwald Sachsenhausen & Dachau camps. He survived.

📖 'I was at the Auschwitz Crematorium. A conversation with Henryk Mandelbaum...'

Conversations with one the most valuable eyewitnesses to the Holocaust — Henryk Mandelbaum, who was forced by the SS to work in the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz.

The book: books.auschwitz.org/en_US/p/A.-Wil…

27.04.1943 |The 9th transport from Westerbork to #Sobibor consisted of 1204 people, including the Dutch composer Leo Smit and his wife Lientje de Vries | 0 survivors
Leo Smit was a talented Dutch composer, born May 14, 1900 in Amsterdam's Plantage neighborhood. 👇🏼1/10

28.04.1943|The Germans arrested Robert Skrzypczak in Puławy. He was brought to #Majdanek in July from the Gestapo Lublin castle prison. Registered as inmate no. 9699 he was kept at fields III & IV. In March 1944 Robert escaped from the camp. Learn how at: tinyurl.com/5f3et4pd

27.04.1942|Czech Jew Karel Baum was deported to #Majdanek from #Theresienstadt . He used to live at Sázavská 9 Street in Prague. In KL Lublin he was registered as prisoner no. 6524. He perished at the camp in August 1942. #Holocaust

24.04.1866|Josef Lowenthal was born in Dobromil (Dobromyl). He ran his own restaurant. Josef and his wife Brandla were deported from Przemyśl to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers in July 1942. #Holocaust

24.04.1944|Head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (WVHA) SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl formally transformed KL Warschau into a sub-camp of #Majdanek . The decision made despite the ongoing evacuation of the concentration camp in #Lublin became effective in May.

Transport manifest dated 23.04.1943 documents the transfer of one freight car of clothes from the #Sobibór extermination camp to the central “Einsatz Reinhardt” warehouses in Lublin. All items stolen from the #Holocaust victims were processed in Lublin & then shipped to Germany.

21.04.1943 | Mathilda Rosette Frankenhuis-Frenk was 22 y/o when she was arrested. Her granddaughter Mathilda Rosette van den Hof is launching her book ‘Wat is haar naam?’ exactly 81 years after the arrest on April 21, 1943. About intergenerational trauma in the women's line?👇🏼1/7

22.04.1942|Key SS #Holocaust perpetrators: camp commandant Franz Stangl, Karl Frenzel, Hubert Gomerski, Kurt Bolender arrive at the German Nazi extermination centre SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor .

20.04.1943|Danish prisoner Anna Weng-Seidemann arrived at #Majdanek . She witnessed the 1941 mass murder of Jews in Riga. Germans arrested her for illegal correspondence with Danish & Swiss diplomats based in Berlin. A year later she was transferred to Ravensbrück. Anna survived.

20.04.1943 | 8th transport from Westerbork to #Sobibor | 1166 deportees | 0 survivors
One of the deportees was salesman Hein Lindeman from Almelo. He was in the Amersfoort, Vught and Westerbork camps and was murdered in Sobibor on April 23, 1943. Read his story 👇🏼1/10

20.04.1943|Another transport of victims departed from the Netherlands to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor . None of the 1166 deportees survived. #Holocaust

20.04.1942|Several thousand Jews were taken to #Majdanek from the secondary Lublin ghetto at Majdan Tatarski. Selections & mass executions in the nearby Krępiecki forest were the next phase of exterminating the Lublin’s Jews. Read more about those events: bit.ly/3Knzm04

19.04.1944|Halina Bartyńska, Ewa Piwińska, Jadwiga Elżanowska, Stefania Błońska, Ewa Walecka, Zofia Kołecka, and around 800 other female prisoners, mostly from Poland & Soviet Union, were sent from #Majdanek to #Ravensbrück . More in our Evacuation thread: bit.ly/40ZOGr5

81 lat temu, 19 kwietnia 1943 r., wybuchło powstanie w getcie warszawskim.
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19.04.1943| Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out, one of the major acts of Jewish resistance against the Third German Reich. Willing to die with dignity the oppressed victims took arms despite no chances for victory. Today we honour their memory and courage. #RememberingTogether

Jutro Dzień Pamięci o Holokauście i przeciwdziałaniu zbrodniom przeciwko ludzkości. Bierzemy udział w akcji Żonkile organizowanej przez Muzeum POLIN, a dodatkowo zapraszamy na rozmowę dot. powojennych losów lubelskich Żydów. Posłuchać można również online: majdanek.eu/pl/news/dzien_…

17.04.1891|Alfred-Awraham Czoban was born in Husiatyn. Graduate of Law at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, officer of the Austrian army during WWI. In August 1942 he was arrested & taken to the Janowska concentration camp, later murdered in the #Bełżec extermination camp.