From July 1943 to March 1944 in Ternopil, today in Ukraine, Pole Irena Gut, born #OTD in 1918, gave shelter to ten Jews in a villa of a German major, where she worked as a housekeeper.

All ten survived WW2.

In all, Irena saved seventeen lives from the Holocaust.

The Ghetto fightbacks were astonishing, but where are their stories? Hollywood prefers the myth of the Righteous Gentile. Every agent told me, 'No market for tales of Jewish Resistance' . I AM JUDEN now a UK Bestseller for 6 months. Thankyou for proving the agents wrong.

From July 1943 to March 1944 in Ternopil, today in Ukraine, Pole Irena Gut, born #OTD in 1918, gave shelter to ten Jews in a villa of a German major, where she worked as a housekeeper.

All ten survived WW2.

In all, Irena saved seventeen lives from the Holocaust.

#OTD in 1987, Blessed Rupert Mayer, SJ, was beatified by St. John Paul II. Mayer, a German #Jesuit priest, was a leading figure of the Catholic resistance to Nazism and was imprisoned for his opposition to the Nazi regime.

The iconic image of the hoisting of the Red Flag over the Reichstag #OTD 2 May 1945, has come to represent the 'total victory' of Soviet #Russia over Nazi Germany in the #WWII

The iconic image of the hoisting of the Red Flag over the Reichstag #OTD 2 May 1945, has come to represent the 'total victory' of Soviet #Russia over Nazi Germany in the #WWII

Klemens Szeptycki joined a monastery in 1911 and one year later he changed rites from Latin to Byzantine-Ukrainian.

During WW2, he helped shelter Jewish boys against the Holocaust.

After the war, he was imprisoned by the communists and died #OTD in 1951.

I went to the bar in Malta last year where he drunk himself to death after a day's filming Gladiator. The bar were selling souvenir t-shirts of the frankly ridiculous round that finished him off. Bad taste? The drinks were just for him.

Klemens Szeptycki joined a monastery in 1911 and one year later he changed rites from Latin to Byzantine-Ukrainian.

During WW2, he helped shelter Jewish boys against the Holocaust.

After the war, he was imprisoned by the communists and died #OTD in 1951.

Yes I was wrong. I made a mistake. I have no problem at all admitting that. I can see you too 👋👋👋

#OnThisDay in 1945 Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels committed suicide along with his wife & six children

Can Steven Zaillian please adapt every novel and Robert Elswit shoot them as a gleaming monochrome film noir? Ripley is utterly sublime.

No!! Paul Auster has died. He was one of my first literary loves. This letter is still one of my most cherished possessions.

#OnThisDay in 1945 Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels committed suicide along with his wife & six children

Yehudit Taube, a Jewish nanny embroidered the names of women who survived Ravensbruck concentration camp on a piece of Nazi flag when the camp was liberated #OTD in 1945.

Yehudit Taube, a Jewish nanny embroidered the names of women who survived Ravensbruck concentration camp on a piece of Nazi flag when the camp was liberated #OTD in 1945.

#OTD April 29 in 1945, American forces liberated Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Nazi Germany.

More than 200,000 prisoners from over 40 nations were imprisoned in Dachau and its subcamps. Over 40,000 died before its liberation. #NeverAgain

I’m trying to recall details of a WW2 (I think) false-flag operation where one country tricked a lone enemy warship or U-boat into participating in a surprise (and fictitious attack). Ring any bells? Thanks.

#OTD April 29 in 1945, American forces liberated Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Nazi Germany.

More than 200,000 prisoners from over 40 nations were imprisoned in Dachau and its subcamps. Over 40,000 died before its liberation. #NeverAgain

Oskar #Schindler , born #OTD in 1908, would become a WW2 Righteous Among the Nations for saving his Jewish workforce from German-perpetrated Holocaust.