25 January 1935 | Dutch Jewish boy, John Groenteman, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Shoes On The Danube, Holocaust Memorial, Budapest, Hungary. It honours Jews massacred by the Fascist Hungarian militia during WW2. The victims were ordered to take off their shoes, and were then shot at the edge of the river so that their bodies fell in. (2012).

‘It would be a serious mistake to regard the Holocaust as dead, or even past.’ Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, antisemitism is on the rise again, writes Jacob Howland: 👇buff.ly/40pceGw

Caroline Chojecki was a pioneering leading naval intelligence analyst at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Chances are, you've never heard of her. But, you really should! This is the story of a WW2 heroine: (a thread)

Last month we heard the sad news that ATA despatch rider Pamela Jordan (née Logsdon) passed away. With a request from her family, I’m privileged to tell you more about Pamela (centre) & her war time service. She was a wonderful lady & shared her experiences with me last year.

In WW2, breaking the enemy's codes was the highest priority. Enter Bletchley Park - a secret estate bought with £6,000 of private funds to crack the "unbreakable" German Enigma codes. Margaret Godfrey was one of the very first women at "the park." This is the story: (a thread)

In the room behind the ground floor windows of this beautiful #Berlin villa, fifteen men met on the morning of January 20, 1942 to discuss and agree upon the murder of 11 million of their fellow European citizens. All Jews. Then they had lunch. #History #WW2

I *really* hope the Auschwitz Museum doesn’t mind, but I’m going to put up snapshots of their online materials because 1) People don’t bother with links 2) There are FAR too many people out there saying the Holocaust never happened 🧵 1/

In the 1930s, Friedl Gärtner was a key Austrian spy working for British Intelligence to infiltrate Nazi networks in the UK. She played a dangerous game of double-cross deception. This is her story: (🧵)

She lived in a bungalow high on a hill, with 50ft radio mast in her garden! She stayed up late into the nights, intercepting German signals. Let's unravel the mysterious WW2 legacy of North Devon's sole female voluntary interceptor—female spy Mrs Olive Myler: (🧵)

Queen Natalie It’s quite something when the guest moves at a house takes it over and then takes over the house all together. There is a name for the police:satasi. The ratio for the Stasi was one secret policeman per 166 East Germans. When the regular informers are added, these ratios become

Today is the 80th anniversary of Operation Varsity, the largest single-day airborne operation in history & the last operation for the British Airborne forces in WWII. This operation became quite an unexpected experience for WAAF Rosemary Britten!.....

Hugh O'Flaherty, an Irish Catholic priest, rescued approx. 6,000 Allied soldiers & Jews in Rome during WW2. Using the sanctuary of the Vatican, he orchestrated an extensive network of safe houses, farms & convents to hide those at risk. Nazi efforts failed to capture him.

King Mohammed V of Morocco saved his country’s 250,000 Jews from persecution and death at the hands of France's pro-Nazi Vichy regime during the Holocaust. The king stood firm against ghettoizing and deporting Jews, saying: “There are no Jews in Morocco, only Moroccan citizens".

Simon Schama: making a Holocaust film for an age of denial ft.com/content/f47bb1… via @ft my piece on new BBC documentary and holocaust memory

This morning's blossom-laden walk to my desk ChartwellNT.

Gustave Caillebotte, The Orange Trees

just beautiful flowers 🌸

The house of Monet in Giverny