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Westerbork, Holland, candle lighting on the seventh night of Hanukkah. Click the link in our bio to view the online exhibition “Hanukkah: The Festival of Lights - Before, During and After the Holocaust”. . . #yadvashem #holland #netherlands #thenetherlands #westerbork @kampwesterbork #holocaust #holocausthistory #shoa #shoah #WWII #worldwar2 #bnw #hanukkah #chanukkah #hanukkahmenorah #ханука #ханукия #חנוכיה# חנוכה
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#OTD 80 years ago , December 24, 1939, approximately two months after occupying the city, Germans, along with Polish policemen, encircled the synagogue in Siedlce, removed the Torah scrolls from the building, and lit aflame both the synagogue and the Torah scrolls. The fire also spread to the neighboring Jewish study house (beit midrash) and Jewish community offices. After the fire, the Germans ordered the Polish police to prepare a report holding the Jews responsible for igniting the fire. After the synagogue was burnt down many Jews were deported to labor camps in the Lublin area. On August 1, 1941, two ghettos were established in Siedlce that together contained 12,000 Jews. Most of the Jews in Siedlce were shot by the Nazis or their Ukrainian collaborators, or deported to Treblinka. About 2,000 Jews from Siedlce survived the war. . . #yadvashem #siedlce #christmaseve #holocaust #holocausto #shoa #synagogue #torahscrolls
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These Hanukkah related postcards were drawn by Prof. Alfred Grotte in Germany between 1936 to 1941. He sent them to Franz and Elln Posener in Lichtenstein. Prof. Grotte was deported from Breslau to Grüssau transit camp in Silesia in 1942 and from there to Theresienstadt. He died in Theresienstadt on the 17th June 1943. These drawings are taken from an album of postcards donated by the Posener's son to Yad Vashem as part of the Gathering the Fragments Campaign. . . #yadvashem #germany #lichtenstein #breslau #theresienstadt #holocaust #holocausthistory #shoa #shoah #WWII #worldwar2 #bnw #hanukkah #chanukkah #hanukkahmenorah #gatheringthegragments #חנוכה# חנוכיה
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A photograph taken in 1932 by Rachel, wife of Rabbi Akiva Posner, of their candle-lit Hanukkah menorah against the backdrop of the Nazi flags flying from the building across from their home in Kiel, Germany. Rabbi Dr. Akiva Posner, Dr. of Philosophy from Halle-Wittenberg University, served from 1924–1933 as the last Rabbi of the community of Kiel. The Rabbi, his wife Rachel and their 3 children left Germany in 1933 and arrived in Eretz Israel in 1934. Akiva and Rachel Posner’s descendants continue to light Hanukkah candles using the same menorah that was brought to Israel from Kiel. . . #yadvashem @uni_halle #unihalle #kiel #germany #hanukkah #chanukkah #hanukkahmenorah #חנוכה #חנוכיה #instagram_israel
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Carol Deutsch, a Jewish artist died #OTD, December 20, 1944 in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Carol Deutsch was born on May 21, 1894 in Antwerp, Belgium. During 1941-1942 Deutsch illustrated a Bible, which he dedicated to his daughter Ingrid on her second birthday. The 99 illustrations, depicting the chronicles and heroes of the Bible, are safeguarded in an ornamental wooden box, which he designed. In September 1943 Carol Deutsch and his wife Fela were arrested. Their daughter Ingrid and her grandmother hid with a Catholic family in the town of Florenville, Belgium. Both survived the Holocaust. On 20 September 1943 Deutsch and his wife were deported to Auschwitz, where Fela was murdered. Carol Deutsch was sent first to the Sachsenhausen camp and then forced on a death march to Buchenwald where he died of exhaustion. . . #yadvashem #art #artist #jewish #holocaust #shoa #holocausto #history #antwerp #auschwitz #history #artmuseum #bible
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Sosnowiec, Poland, Jewish forced laborers in the ghetto. In 1931, about 31,000 lived in Sosnowiec, roughly 30% of its total population. The Germans occupied Sosnowiec on September 4, 1939. The deportation of Jews to Auschwitz began on May 10, 1942 (1,500 deportees) and continued in June 1942 (2,000 deportees). Thousands of Jews were deported from Sosnowiec to Auschwitz during 1942-1943. In late August 1943, after the liquidation of the ghetto, dozens of youth movement members in Sosnowiec managed to escape to Slovakia and Hungary. A number of these survivors reached the Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) in 1944. . . #yadvashem #history #holocaust #sosnowiec #ghetto #auschwitz #winter #snow
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Repost @dardziel.pl Sculpture by Zadok Ben-David at Yad Vashem: The Partisans' Panorama pays tribute to the Jewish fighters who joined the partisans during the Holocaust. . . #yadvashem #holocaust #jews #jewishfighter #partisan #travelphotography #yadvashemmuseum #holocaustmuseum #jerusalem #jerusalem24_7 #jerusalemoftheday #israel
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Aniela Krzysztonek raised 3 generations of the Fiszgrund family over the many years she served as nursemaid in their home in Krakow. After the outbreak of the WWII, Aniela refused to part from her employers and accompanied them in their wanderings to Piotrkow Trybunalski, where she voluntarily was interned with them in the ghetto. Later the Fiszgrunds persuaded her to leave the ghetto and return to Krakow. In 1942, a short time before the liquidation of the ghetto, Fiszgrund succeeded in smuggling his daughter, Chana, out of the ghetto and moved her into Krzysztonek’s apartment in Krakow. When the hiding place was discovered by the neighbors, Aniela left her apartment for Warsaw together with the girl and placed her there in an orphanage. Chana Fiszgrund was liberated by the Red Army in January 1945, being the only survivor of her family. She went on living with her nanny, and in 1969 they immigrated to Israel. Aniela Krzysztonek died in Israel in 1978. #OTD 50 years ago, December 16, 1969, Yad Vashem recognized Aniela Krzysztonek as #RighteousAmongtheNations. . #yadvashem #righteous #humanity #holocaust #history #bnw #portrait #WWII #Krakow #PiotrkowTrybunalski
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On December 15th, 1961 an Israeli court found Adolf Eichmann, an SS officer who played a major role in the annihilation of European Jewry, guilty on 15 counts including crimes against the Jewish people, and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death. Adolf Eichmann had escaped to Argentina after the war and lived there undetected until in May 1960, when the Israeli Security Service captured him and brought him back to Israel to stand trial. His 1961 trial in Jerusalem sparked international interest and heightened public awareness of the crimes of the Holocaust. Gideon Hausner (pictured here) an Israeli law expert who served as the chief prosecuting attorney said at the beginning of the trial: With me here are 6,000,000 accusers.” #yadvashem #eichmanntrial #adolfeichmann #eichmann #holocaust #holocausthistory #bnw
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December 13, 1941, deportation of Jews from Bielefeld, Germany, to the Riga Ghetto, Latvia. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, some 800 Jews lived in Bielefeld, Germany, a city with 120,000 residents. Dozens of Jews emigrated from Bielefeld in the first years of Nazi rule. Others were deported in October 1938, and dozens of Jewish men were arrested during Kristallnacht the following month and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. From 27 November 1941 until 6 February 1942, 20 deportations left the Reich for Riga, Latvia, each holding approximately 1,000 Jews. In December 1941, the deportation of the remaining 431 Jews in Bielefeld to the East began. Only some 600 of the 20,000 Jews deported from the German Reich to Riga survived the Holocaust. . . #yadvashem #bielefeld #germany #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #shoa #shoah #rigaghetto #deportation #WWII #worldwar2 #bnw
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On 11 December 1941 Ilse Klaber was deported from Dusseldorf to Riga, with her 5-year old son Werner Erich and her 56-year old mother Grete. All three were eventually murdered in the Riga Ghetto. Ilse Klaber (nee Kaufmann) was born in Kornelimuenster, Germany on 29 June 1911 to Jacob and Grete Kaufmann (nee Kahn). She was a housewife and married to Fritz. Prior to WWII the couple lived in Breyell, Germany. Trying to get his family out of Germany after the outbreak of the war, Fritz Klaber traveled to Amsterdam in September 1939 in hopes of getting a visa to South America. In 1940 he was caught and deported to Westerbork. In November 1943 Fritz managed to escape from Westerbork, returned to Amsterdam and joined the underground. Fritz Klaber survived the Holocaust. . . #yadvashem #dusseldorf #riga #rigaghetto #jews #holocaust #holocausro #shoa #westerbork #worldwar2 #WWII
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The season of spectacular winter sunsets is officially here! The Yad Vashem Visitors’ Center and Holocaust History Museum at dusk. The architect: Moshe Safdie (@safdiearchitects). . . #yadvashemmuseum #holocaustmuseum #thisismuseum #sunset #moshesafdie #architecture #archdaily #archidaily #archi #jerusalem #israel
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Dresses and hats produced in vocational training courses of the Jewish community in Vienna, Austria. The exhibition was held in December 1939. The photograph was published as part of an album dedicated to vocational training prepared by the Jewish community of Vienna in November 1940. The program was a part of the Jewish efforts to train themselves in professions that would be relevant and useful in the countries to which they hoped to immigrate. . . #yadvashem #history #bnw #vienna #austria #dresses #1939
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A ski trip in the snow, Vilna, Poland, prewar. Klooga, the largest labor camp in Estonia, was established in the Summer of 1943. Most of the prisoners there were brought from the Vilna Ghetto in August-September 1943. On 19/09/1944, days before the Red Army liberated the camp, the Germans and their Estonian collaborators murdered over 2,000 Jews in the forests near the camp. They tried to conceal the murder but did not completely burn most of the bodies. This photograph is taken from the photographs found in the pockets of murdered Jews in the Klooga camp after the liberation. Most of the photographs were taken in Vilna before the war. Courtesy Central Historic Museum in Estonia. . . .#yadvashem #ski #snow #winter #prewar #history #bnw #vilna #klooga #estonia #holocaust #history #jewishhistory
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Visitors in Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum exploring the Warsaw Ghetto room in the gallery Ghettos - Between Walls and Fences.” One of the main streets in the ghetto, Leszno, has been symbolically reconstructed using genuine artifacts, offering visitors a first-hand rendition of the ghetto’s prominent sights, personalities, and phenomena. . . #yadvashem #yadvashemmuseum #holocaustmuseum #museum #ghetto #travelphotography #travelgram #instatravel #jerusalem #israel
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#OTD, 4 December 1944, Don Dante Sala was arrested for his rescue activities in Italy. Don Dante Sala was born in Carpi, Italy in 1905 and served at San Martino Spino di Mirandola. He was an active member of the Resistance and managed to save 106 Jews by smuggling them out of Italy either to Switzerland or to Spain. As a clergyman, he felt it was his duty to save lives. He risked his life many times, whenever he took small groups of 7, 10, or a maximum of 12 persons toward the Swiss border. After his arrest and during his interrogation, Sala denied any involvement in rescue operations. Nevertheless, he was imprisoned for 2 months in San Donnino prison. Since there was a lack of incriminating evidence against him, he was released. On 18 February, 1969, Yad Vashem recognized Don Dante Sala as Righteous Among the Nations. . . #yadvashem #righteousamongthenations #rescue #worldwar2 #jews #history #holocaust #clergyman #carpi #italy
