On this day in 1929 Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt Germany. The Frank family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazi's came to power. They would end up going into hiding there on 6th July 1942, 2 years after the Nazis occupied the Netherlands (10th May 1940 after 5 days of fighting). Anne kept a diary of this time. You can find out more about her life here: https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/the-timeline/#key-moment-2-list
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Often we are taught about the well known parts of Holocaust history but you don't hear stories from lesser known camps. In May 1945, Gusen Concentration Camp, a camp with at least 35,000 victims was liberated. See more info here: https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/this-month/may/1945-2.html
Britain's policy of internment came into force in May 1940. British authorities interned 1000 children from the Kindertransport as enemy aliens. They were held in internment camps on the Isle of Man, Canada and Australia.
Individual stories from the Holocaust are often the most powerful. Click on the link below to see powerful photographs and learn the story of Tova Mendel being deported from their home on this day in 1945.
https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/this-month/may/1942-2.html The Fascist Croatian Regime called the Ustasha began the mass deportation of Roma, Serbs and Jews to the Jasenovac Concentration Camp - 83,145 victims can be identified by name.
Odak and Bencic, "Jasenovac- A Past that Does not Pass: The Presence of Jasenovac in Croatian and Serbian Collective Memory of Conflict." East European Politics and Societies 30, no. 4 (2016) p.808. The Jasenovac Genocide has been distorted and negotiated and its memory tarnished as the Croatian government erected a plaque with the Ustasha slogan "Za dom Spremni" meaning "homeland ready" at the sight of the Jasenovac camp. https://www.timesofisrael.com/croatias-serbian-jewish-groups-to-snub-wwii-death-camp-memorial/ The steam ship St Louis sets off from Hamburg to Cuba and the US with 900 Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. The refugees are rejected from both Cuba and the US and is forced to return to Europe. The St Louis docked in Antwerp, Belgium and the governments of the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the UK agreed to take in the refugees. https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1939-1941/st-louis-voyage
The German forces began surrendering the Channel Islands on 9 May 1945, as Nazi Germany had been defeated. https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/30-june-1940-nazi-occupation-of-the-channel-islands-begins/
Britain’s policy of internment came into force in May 1940. British authorities interned 1,000 children from the Kindertransport as enemy aliens. They were held in internment camps on the Isle of Man, Canada, and Australia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kindertransport-1938-40 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/kindertransport/
Eva Clarke born in Mauthausen concentrationcamp, Austria. Eva weighed about 3lbs/1.5 kg. If the camp's gas chambers hadn’tbeen blown up on 28th April 1945 and the Americans hadn’t liberated Mauthausenjust days after Eva’s birth, neither mother or child would have survived. Read more of Eva's testimony here: https://www.het.org.uk/survivors-eva-clarke
One of three reports that comprise the "Auschwitz protocols" - they were published in Slovak and translated to English and distributed throughout the West. These reports detailed eye-witness accounts of Auschwitz and other Nazi atrocities from two prisoners who'd escaped earlier in April. This publication led to the UK, America and others condemning Hungary. Death camp transports from Hungary stopped in July 1944 (The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz, 2000)
https://archive.org/details/USWRBGermanExterminationCampsAuschwitzAndBirkenau http://auschwitz.org/en/history/informing-the-world/reports-by-auschwitz-escapees https://web.archive.org/web/20180727124138/http://vrbawetzler.eu/img/static/Prilohy/The-Auschwitz-Protocol.pdf The Rosenstrasse Protest occurred on this date in 1943. It was a non-violent protest held by the non-Jewish wives whose Jewish husbands had been rounded up. They were detained in a welfare office on Rosenstrasse (Rose Street) so their non-Jewish relatives stood outside and demanded their release. The protest grew and resisted deterrents like the threat of gunfire. To avoid unwanted press attention German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels released the men on 6th March 1943. The mother of Ruth Barnett, a survivor who escaped as part of the Kindertransport in 1939, took part in the protest. Ruth's father, who was Jewish, had fled to Shanghai, whereas her mother who was not, remained in Germany. When it was decreed that non-Jews would have to divorce their Jewish spouses she joined the Rosenstrasse protest. Many of the protesters were arrested, but their German citizenship protected them. After the protest Ruth's mother went into hiding. Watch Ruth talk about this, and her own experiences here: https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ruth-barnett-interview/ruth-barnett-her-parents-in-war-time/
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