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#OTD “The names of father, Jiri and myself appeared on the transport list of 23 October 1944." -Vera Bader Jiri Bader celebrated his Bar Mitzvah in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Despite the restrictions and difficult conditions, his family and friends prepared gifts for him

Irena Sendler risked her life to rescue Jewish children; she was arrested #OTD 20 October 1943. Sendler took advantage of her position as a social worker in the Warsaw municipality to devise a plan and help the ghetto's Jews. In this capacity, she managed to obtain an entrance

Alice Steiner was murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau #OTD 19 October 1944, a day before her tenth birthday. She and her father, Dr. Gustav Steiner, had been deported on the last transport from Bratislava to Auschwitz two days earlier. This is their story:

Mina Wachsmannova was born #OTD 18 October 1900 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. This photograph of her is stamped by the "Jewish Center" (UZ - Ustredna Zidov) in Bratislava which was ordered to issue its own identification documents in 1941. Mina was murdered in the Holocaust.

A mother and her children before their execution in Lubny, Ukraine. #OTD 16 October 1941 German commanders ordered Jews to gather in Lubny, Ukraine for relocation. 4,500 Jews from the area were murdered that day Learn more about the beginning of the Final Solution:

After the Arrow Cross Fascist movement seized power and instituted a reign of terror in Budapest #OTD 15 October 1944, two medical students in Budapest - Clara Ambrus and Alexander Szirmai - joined forces to save Jews. They found hiding places and arranged false papers for the

The establishment of the Warsaw ghetto was decreed #OTD 12 October 1940. It was to be largest ghetto in all of Europe with over 400,000 Jews sealed inside. Learn more: yadvashem.org/warsaw-ghetto Pictured: Zelezny Street; Jews being moved to the Warsaw ghetto, September-October

The deportation of Jews from Czernowitz, Romania was decreed #OTD 10 October 1941 Mayor Traian Popovici objected to the decree. In his memoirs Popovici said that he contemplated stepping down, but was determined not to abandon the Jews in their time of need. Despite the

Oskar Schindler died #OTD 9 October 1974, in the Catholic cemetery on Mt Zion in Jerusalem. The inscription on his grave reads, 'The unforgettable rescuer of 1,200 persecuted Jews." This is his story: yadvashem.org/righteous/stor… Pictured: - Oskar Schindler - Survivors saved by

#OTD 8 October 1943, Vladimir Pomerantsev - a Red Army officer and former Yiddish newspaper correspondent - led soldiers to free the Belorussian shtetl of Liady. It was one of the first locations in the former Jewish Pale of Settlement to be liberated from the Nazis on Soviet

Today, 1,000 Christian leaders from around the world came to Yad Vashem to remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and to learn about the antisemitism and hatred that led to one of the darkest chapters in human history.

Today at Babyn Yar in Kyiv, where 85 years ago more than 33,000 Jewish men, women and children were murdered in just two days, Yad Vashem Chairman @AmbDaniDayan reminded us that the victims were not a number. Each had a name. An age. A hometown. A family. A future. They were

Over the course of 3 weeks in October 1943, the Danish underground bravely smuggled most of its Jewish population - 7200 Jews - to safety in neutral Sweden. Among those rescued were these 4 members of the Znaider family, who reached Sweden #OTD 6 October 1943.

Giuseppe Di Porto, born in Rome, Italy in 1923, was caught by the SS in October 1943, and deported from Milan. About two months later, he was sent to Auschwitz, where the number 167988 was tattooed on his arm on arrival. In October 1945, five months after the end of the war, Di

A law passed in the Vichy (Unoccupied) zone of France #OTD 4 October 1940 allowed for the detainment of Jews of foreign nationality. By February 1941, 40,000 foreign Jews were detained in camps of the Unoccupied Zone alone. Three arrest operations in the occupied zone

#SaturdayNightArt Artist Ferdinand (Felix) Bloch captures the observance of the Sukkot holiday (according to one testimony) in his illustration Prayer. The Torah scroll is carried by one of the congregants, with the cantor and rabbi standing on either side of the pulpit adorned

Aharon Jakobson (wearing a white shirt in the center of the photo), dances with a Torah scroll along with fellow members of the Zionist Youth Front during #SimchatTorah in the Lodz ghetto. Aharon was later murdered at Gleiwitz, a sub-camp of Auschwitz bit.ly/4gKMJaH

This Torah scroll was used in the camps in Transnistria. The wooden rollers and mantle were made in the camps; when the survivors returned home, the Torah scroll was brought to the synagogue in Czernowitz.

These are some of the events that took place during the month of October in Holocaust history.

#InternationalPodcastDay "On the Holocaust" brings together historians and experts from Yad Vashem - the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, who present new perspectives on the Holocaust, exploring its untold stories and unknown heroes. Listen here: bit.ly/3XJfLhJ