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The Black Prince was a modernization of the Churchill VII tank featuring a wider hull and a larger turret with a 17-pounder gun, but the same engine and transmission despite weighing 10 tons more. #OTD in 1945 the contract for 300 units was cancelled. #tanks #history #WW2
https://www.tankarchives.ca/2020/11/black-prince.html
Black Prince
A blog about World War II era archive documents, primarily dealing with armoured warfare.www.tankarchives.ca
Orders were given to conduct comparative trials of T-34 and T-43 tanks #OTD in 1943. The T-43 was superior, but by the time trials finished the Red Army's requirements for new AFVs had grown. #tanks #history #WW2
https://www.tankarchives.ca/2020/06/an-intermediate-step.html
An Intermediate Step
A blog about World War II era archive documents, primarily dealing with armoured warfare.www.tankarchives.ca
10 May 1894 | A Polish woman, Zofia Skorek, was born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki.
In Auschwitz from 29 July 1943
No. 50582
She perished in the camp on 27 October 1943.
Her husband Adam was deported with her. He perished in Auschwitz on 14 April 1944.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts
Yes, the lack of former #Denazification is a huge issue and the worst thing post-#WW2 Germany did.
Alongside not undoing Nazi criminal codes...
More: http://warsze.polin.pl/en/przeszlosc/wojna/powstanie
#history #Holocaust #ghetto #uprising #Jews #ww2
https://www.tankarchives.ca/2018/01/second-to-last-step.html
Second to Last Step
A blog about World War II era archive documents, primarily dealing with armoured warfare.www.tankarchives.ca
https://www.tankarchives.ca/2019/06/temporary-reinforcement.html
Temporary Reinforcement
A blog about World War II era archive documents, primarily dealing with armoured warfare.www.tankarchives.ca
https://www.tankarchives.ca/2021/08/evolution-and-revolution.html
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«I never felt like a heroine. Women never do. Men are more more to that; it's more a male thing I believe, and I say it with all the respect due to the many young men who gave their lives in the #Resistance».
#WW2 partisan Elsa Pelizzari would have turned 94 today.
#4aprile #Otd
🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/ANPI_Scuola/status/1643176594767323136
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#movies #satire #classicmovies #40s #blackandwhite #fascism #Nazis #40s #ww2 #itcanhapenhere #antisemitism
https://www.tankarchives.ca/2019/10/the-tankettes-late-successor.html
The Tankette's Late Successor
A blog about World War II era archive documents, primarily dealing with armoured warfare.www.tankarchives.ca
In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard."
#ExecutiveOrder9066 #WW2 #IncarcerationOfJapaneseAmericans #GraphicNovel
Details & registration: https://auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/roma-experience-of-extermination-educational-session-online-23-february-2023,1602.html
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Zigeunerlager #history #histodons @histodons #Roma #Sinti #Gypsies #genocide #education #seminar #online #Nazis #ww2
https://www.tankarchives.ca/2016/11/t-70-growing-up.html
T-70: Growing Up
A blog about World War II era archive documents, primarily dealing with armoured warfare.www.tankarchives.ca
In May 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chamber.
Janos was one of some 430,000 Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz. Learn more about their story in our online lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Hungary #children
https://www.tankarchives.ca/2019/11/up-armoured-t-34s.html
Up-Armoured T-34s
A blog about World War II era archive documents, primarily dealing with armoured warfare.www.tankarchives.ca
https://www.tankarchives.ca/2018/04/su-152-from-assault-gun-to-tank.html
SU-152: From Assault Gun to Tank Destroyer
A blog about World War II era archive documents, primarily dealing with armoured warfare.www.tankarchives.ca
In 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz together with his mother Branca, brother Marcus and sister Lea. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Groningen #Netherlands
In Auschwitz from 5 May 1942.
No. 34713
On 20 June 1942, he was shot while trying to escape from the camp.
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#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #escape
On 19 August 1942 he was deported from #Drancy to Auschwitz in a transport of 1,000 Jews. Murdered in a gas chamber after selection on 21 August 1942.
Learn about the tragic fate of children at Auschwitz.
Online lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
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Podcast: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-8-Children-at-Auschwitz-e16t4gh
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts
"On Auschwitz" (8): Children at Auschwitz by On Auschwitz
Using only estimates based on the examination of the existing incomplete documentation, it can only be acknowledged that there were around 232,000 children aged under 15 and youth aged under 18 among the at least 1.Anchor
Registered in Auschwitz on 27 November 1941.
No. 23520
He perished in the camp on 24 October 1942.
One of at least 77 prisoners persecuted for their sexual orientation. Another 25 could have been initially arrested for their real or alleged homosexuality, but had a different category. Some scholars speak of up to 140 prisoners persecuted for their sexual orientation.
#Auschwitz #history #ww2 #Nazis #gay #lgbt #people
Auschwitz prisoner no. 79042.
He illegally created many portraits of co-prisoners at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and Gross-Rosen camps. He survived.
Among surviving documents, we can find his Auschwitz registration photograph as well as his self-portrait from Auschwitz.
Franciszek Jaźwiecki passed away in October 1946.
#Auschwitz #artist #art #history #drawing #portrait #ww2 #Krakow #people
@histodons
At Auschwitz from 25 March 1944
No. 175312
He perished at Auschwitz III-Monowitz on 4 August 1944.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Mossel
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Amsterdam #merchant #Netherlands #music
Her mother was deported from Hungary when she was 3-month pregnant. She risked her life in the camp to keep the pregnancy secret.
Angela was liberated on 27 January 1945.
Today she lives in Canada & turns 78.
Happy birthday!
Learn her story at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation page: https://www.preserveauschwitz.org/survivor/angela-orosz-richt/
#Auschwitz #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #birthday #otd #children #ww2 #Hungary
In Auschwitz from 15 August 1940
No. 1852
In 1942, he was released from the camp.
He was one of some 2,000 registered prisoners released from Auschwitz. Learn more about releases: http://auschwitz.org/en/history/life-in-the-camp/releases-from-the-camp
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #facts #otd #prisoner #remember #releases #education @histodons #Warsaw
In February 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #children #Amsterdam #Netherlands
🔹 Beginnigs of the Auschwitz concentration camp
https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-1-The-beginnings-of-Auschwitz-e1161cf/a-a5k4gp7
🔹 Construction of Auschwitz II-Birkenau and development of mass extermination in gas chambers
https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-4-Transformation-of-Auschwitz-concentration-camp-into-an-extermination-center-e13bat2
🔹 Auschwitz III-Monowitz
https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-9-Auschwitz-III-Monowitz-camp-e17o9si
#Auschwitz #history #podcast #education #ww2 #Holocaust @histodons
"On Auschwitz" (1): The beginnings of Auschwitz by On Auschwitz
The German Nazi Auschwitz camp was established by the SS in the occupied city of Oświęcim, on the Polish territory annexed by the Third Reich at the beginning of World War II. Paweł Sawicki talks to Dr.Anchor
See our new online lesson dedicated the fate of 1,301 Polish people deported to Auschwitz during the ethnic cleansing of the Zamość region perpetrated by Nazi Germany: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dep_zam_EN/
#Auschwitz #Zamość #Nazis #Germany #Poland #people #memory #ww2 #history #NeverForget #lesson #educaiton #elearning #expulsions @histodons@museum
Learn more about world of criminal medicine in the camp from our podcast: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-2-Medicine-in-Auschwitz-e118a2r/a-a5kfsf2
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #history #ww2 #podcast #medicine #education #doctors #elearning #Nazis #Germany #women
"On Auschwitz" (2): Medicine in Auschwitz by On Auschwitz
The Auschwitz camp complex had an extensive organizational structure, which also included a separate department responsible for protecting the health of both the SS garrison and - at least in theory - the prisoners of the camp.Anchor
In Auschwitz from 6 April 1941.
No. 14034
He perished in the camp on 2 November 1941.
Learn about the creation of Auschwitz, reasons of incarceration of Poles & the plans of development of Auschwitz into the main camp for prisoners in German-occupied Poland. "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #WorldWar2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #lesson
In Auschwitz from 12 December 1941.
No. 24308
He perished in the camp on 26 December 1941.
Learn details about the process of turning Auschwitz into a center of extermination of Jews in gas chambers, as well as the situation of Jewish prisoners in the camp: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #WorldWar2 #Memorial #Remember
In September 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
See our online lesson about children at Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #Amsterdam #Netherlands #NeverForget #ww2 #WorldWar2 #Memorial #Remember #children #education
On 11 August 1942 she was murdered in a gas chamber at the #Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #WorldWar2 #Memorial #Remember #children #girl
Content warning: Sensitive image of emanciated liberated prisoners of Ebensee conxentration camp