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Greetings from Tbilisi’s central avenue!
Desmond Tutu, the distinguished South African clergyman who fought against the unjust regime of apartheid, once said:
"There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river, we need to go upstream and find out why they are falling in."
If we go upstream, we will see the swampy, criminal governance of "Georgian Dream", which has truly run its course.
Georgia, it is time for change! 🇬🇪
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The NHL is coming to the defense of a country that murders civilians daily.
When does this travesty become enough
#MarkCarney
NHL indicates Finland's block on Russian athletes could affect future games there cbc.ca/sports/hockey/finland…
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When was the last time NHL commisioner Gary Bettman came to the defense of Ukraine against russia
Never because he is a sniveling little Trumper whose expiry date has long passed.
#BettmanMustGo
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🇨🇦 They thought he was just another farmer. He was quietly restoring the communications that were killing them!
February 8, 1944. Near Littoria, Italy.
Sergeant Tommy Prince, an Indigenous Canadian from Manitoba serving with the joint American-Canadian First Special Service Force - the "Devil’s Brigade" - was watching German positions from an abandoned farmhouse.
The enemy was only about 200 meters away. A telephone wire connected his observation post to his own force.
Then shellfire cut the line! The silence...
Prince put on civilian clothes, picked up a hoe, and walked into the open, calmly and unhurriedly.
In full view of German soldiers, he pretended to weed the field.
He gradually worked his way to the damaged wire. Then he bent down as though tying his shoelaces, and reconnected it.
Back at his observation post, he resumed reporting enemy positions.
Prince maintained his solitary watch for 24 hours. His observations helped bring about the destruction of four German positions and earned him the Military Medal.
The Germans had watched him restore the very connection that put their positions under fire.
Follow @Vanguard_WW2 for more stories!
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9 November 1889 | A Pole, Witold Swierzyński, was born in Krakow. An engineer.
In #Auschwitz from 25 July 1942.
No. 52326
He perished in the camp on 22 August 1942.
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Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020…
ALT A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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9 November 1928 | Dutch Jewish girl Jenny Trui Spier, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in November 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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A short video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
ALT A photo of a young girl in glasses. She is standing behind a school bench. Other girls are visible behind her.
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7 November 1935 | French Jewish boy, Claude Weinstock, was born in Paris.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 17 August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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A short video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
ALT A young boy standing next to an adult. He is wearing white clothes, including a white beret.
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5 November 1941 | 18 Poles and 1 Polish Jew deported to #Auschwitz by Sipo & SD from Krakow were registered in the camp. 16 of them perished there.
Zygmunt Rolnicki, a Jewish lawyer from Lwów (no. 22445) survived only 2 days. The shoemaker Władysław Haberka from Miechów (no. 22436) perished on 18 December 1941.
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Over 400 thousand people were registered at Auschwitz as prisoners.
🔊 The two largest groups of prisoners registered in Auschwitz were Jews of different nationalities (separate category, some 200k) and Poles (some 140k). Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
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5 November 1940 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Martijn Franklin Altmann, was born in The Hague.
In March 1944, he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
ALT Vintage sepia-toned photo of a smiling young boy with curly hair.
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4 November 1895 | A Czech Jewish woman, Marta Friedländerová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
ALT Black and white portrait of a woman with curly hair, giving a serious look directly at the camera, wearing a patterned shawl. The age of the photograph suggests it is vintage.
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3-4 November 1943 | Aktion Erntefest (Harvest Festival) | The German units murdered ca. 42,000 Jews in the Lublin District of the General Government:
Majdanek - 18,000
Poniatowa - 14,000
Trawniki - 10,000
The massacre was the final element of Operation Reinhard - the murder of Polish Jews in GG.
ALT Photograph of three people standing at the edge of a large trench - mass grave in a barren landscape.
ALT Memorial stone at the former Majdanek concentration camp with an inscription commemorating the victims. The stone is set against a natural backdrop with grass and sky visible.
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2 November 1942 | An SS doctor selected 49 sick prisoners at the Auschwitz infirmary. They were killed with phenol heart injections that day.
Learn about the world of criminal medicine in the camp from our podcast: youtu.be/5hUoEAsCnoU
(image: drawing by a Survivor Mieczysław Kościelniak)
ALT A black and white illustration depicting a phenol heart injection execution at Auschwitz.
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🇬🇪🇪🇺Day 704 of continuous protests in Georgia.
Citizens announced a rally planned for 28 November, which will mark two years of daily protests in Georgia.
📸MO SE
#GeorgiaProtests
