Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors

10/06/2026

On June 9, 1944, almost all of the Jewish population of the Greek island of Corfu, numbering some 1,795 people, were arrested by German army police units and the local police. They were held inside an old fortress, and then sent to Athens and from there were deported to Auschwitz, where most perished. Only 200 Jews returned to Corfu after the war.

Pictured: A pre-war photo of a Jewish family in Corfu ©️ USHMM

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10/06/2026

After midnight on 9 June 1942, groups of German police and SS officials went from house to house in the village of Lidice, now in Czechia, which was occupied by Germany at this time.

The N***s destroyed the village in response to the false claims that two families from Lidice were connected to the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a senior N**i official who was one of the main architects of the Holocaust.

Once the women and children were taken away from the village, they commenced the ex*****on.

Between 9-10 June, they shot all men in the town without any explanation. The remaining women and children were then sent to concentration camps before the SS set the village on fire, completely destroying Lidice.

Only nine children survived. The massacre was widely reported internationally as a symbol of N**i brutality.

In our collection we hold evidence of the solidarity that followed. The destruction of Lidice was widely significant to mining communities in the United Kingdom, where British miners organising a ‘Lidice Shall Live!’ movement. Miners in Stoke-on-Trent also raised funds to build a new village.

📘 Lidice shall live! Author: Czechoslovak-British Friendship Club, Wiener Holocaust Library collections.

09/06/2026

We reported the comment below to Facebook. The platform reviewed it and concluded that it does not violate its Community Standards.

A comment denying the Holocaust and expressing hatred toward Jews was deemed acceptable to remain online.

Of course, we immediately hid the comment on our page. We devote a lot of time to moderating comments on its own channels. We do so to protect the memory and dignity of the victims, and to ensure that our pages do not become a space where their memory is abused.

It would be far easier if social media platforms fulfilled their own responsibility.

It is difficult to understand how content like this can be considered compatible with the Meta Community Standards. If Holocaust denial, open antisemitism, and dehumanizing language do not cross the line, one must ask where that line has been drawn.

The Survivors who helped create this Memorial warned us where hatred can lead when it is tolerated, normalized, or ignored. It is deeply disappointing that, in 2026, we still have to explain why such comments should not be allowed to remain visible on one of the world's largest social media platforms.

08/06/2026

Eighty years ago, seven Jewish children boarded the first boat out of Bremerhaven, Germany, bound for New York. The Weber siblings were the only family to leave together, without being separated. Alfons, Senta, Ruth, Gertrude, Renee, Judith, and Bela managed to evade capture and stay alive.

The Webers hid on a German farm for two years, and were separated upon arrival in America.

07/06/2026

How did the Comanches participate in the Normandy landings?
In their culture, a tank is called an "iron turtle." A "sewing machine" refers to a machine gun, and "the bird" evokes a warplane. In the minds of the Comanches, a Native American people, the military world is rich in imagery. This may be what allowed them to better deceive the "crazy white man," the nickname given to Adolf Hi**er during World War II. Their memory has not been included in history lessons, and yet, Native American participation in the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, certainly contributed to the Allied victory.

Native American "code-talkers"

Fourteen members of the Comanche tribe joined the 4th Division, under the command of Major Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of the former American president. A symbolic gesture for this Indigenous people, who only obtained American citizenship after World War I. The army had noticed the potential of the various Native American dialects in their coded communications. The Choctaw served alongside British troops as the first code talkers, beginning in 1918. Because their diverse, sometimes unwritten, dialects possessed complex grammars, this technique proved effective in challenging German soldiers. Hi**er had even dispatched anthropologists to master these languages. They never managed to decipher a single one of their messages.

Messages to Deceive the Enemy

Enlisting as volunteers, these Native Americans trained for three years at the American base of Fort Benning in Georgia, learning and securing their military codes. While the Comanches were developing the communications strategy for Operation Overlord, other Navajo Indians were deployed to the Pacific as early as 1941. Just as the Germans didn't understand the Comanches, the Japanese never grasped a word of the Navajo. "Tsaaku nunnuwee." On the morning of June 6, 1944, the message sent to headquarters was clear: "We have landed successfully." Once across the rugged beach, the Comanche soldiers laid communication lines, allowing them to communicate in a language never before spoken in Europe. However, it wasn't until the late 1980s that these men received recognition from the United States.

Comment les Comanches ont participé au débarquement en Normandie ?
Chez eux, char d’assaut se dit « tortue de fer ». Une « machine à coudre » désigne une mitrailleuse et « l’oiseau » évoque un avion de guerre. Dans l’imaginaire des Comanches, peuple amérindien, l’univers militaire est imagé. C’est peut-être ce qui leur a permis de mieux tromper « l’homme blanc fou », surnom donné à Adolf Hi**er pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Leur souvenir n’a pas marqué les cours d’histoire et pourtant, la participation amérindienne au Débarquement du 6 juin 1944 a certainement contribué à la victoire alliée.

Des « code-talkers » amérindiens

Ils étaient 14 de la tribu comanche à intégrer la 4e division, sous les ordres du commandant Theodore Roosevelt Junior, fils de l’ancien président américain. Un symbole pour ce peuple autochtone qui n’a obtenu la citoyenneté américaine qu’au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale. L’armée avait alors remarqué le potentiel des différents dialectes indiens dans leurs échanges codés. Les « Choctaws » ont servi aux côtés des troupes britanniques comme les premiers code-talkers à partir de 1918. Parce que leurs différents dialectes parfois non écrits, comportent une grammaire complexe, cette technique s’est avérée efficace pour défier les soldats allemands. Hi**er avait pourtant dépêché des anthropologues pour maîtriser ces langues. Ces derniers n’ont jamais réussi à déchiffrer un seul de leurs messages.

Des messages pour tromper l’ennemi

Engagés comme volontaires, ces indiens se sont préparés pendant trois ans sur la base américaine de Fort Benning en Géorgie, pour apprendre et sécuriser leurs codes militaires. Pendant que les Comanches échafaudent la communication du plan Overlord, d’autres indiens Navajos interviennent dans le Pacifique dès 1941. Pas plus que les Allemands n’ont compris les Comanches, les Japonais n’ont jamais saisi un mot des Navajos. « Tsaaku nunnuwee ». Au matin du 6 juin 1944, le message adressé à l’Etat-Major est clair ; « Nous avons bien débarqué ». Une fois passée la plage accidentée, les soldats Comanches posent les lignes de communication qui leurs permettent alors d’échanger dans une langue encore jamais parlée en Europe. Il aura toutefois fallu attendre la fin des années 80 pour que ces hommes obtiennent une reconnaissance de la part des Etats-Unis.

06/06/2026

The night before D Day, Dwight D. Eisenhower faced one of the most difficult decisions of World War II. Violent storms over the English Channel had already forced the invasion to be delayed by 24 hours, and the success of Operation Overlord rested on a narrow break in the weather. After hours of debate, Eisenhower gave the historic order: “Okay, let’s go.”

In the early hours of June 6, 1944, Allied pathfinders parachuted into Normandy to mark drop zones for more than 13,000 American airborne troops, while British and Canadian airborne forces secured key bridges and roads behind enemy lines. At the same time, Allied deception operations dropped dummy paratroopers and used radar countermeasures to confuse German defenses about where the invasion would begin.

Before the operation, Eisenhower quietly wrote a statement accepting full responsibility if the invasion failed. Thankfully, the courage and sacrifice of Allied forces on D Day marked the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe.

05/06/2026

Veterans back in Normandy - Pegasus Bridge 2026

04/06/2026

4 or 5 June 1944 | Bronisław Czech (prisoner no. 349) died of exhaustion in the Auschwitz camp hospital.

Czech was born on 25 July 1908 in Zakopane. He attended the Zakopane School for the Wood Industry, 1925–1927; and the CIWF (now the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw), 1932–1935. Multiple skiing champion of Poland. Competed in five European Championships and three Winter Olympics (St. Moritz, 1928; Lake Placid, 1932; Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1936); and in all the skiing championships in Poland and abroad (up to 1939, winning over 100 medals and prizes). Awarded the Polish Silver Cross of Merit for outstanding sports achievements, 1930. Head of the Kasprowy Wierch Alpine skiing school, 1936–1939.

When the War broke out in 1939, Czech became involved in the anti-German resistance movement, presumably as a mountain courier. Arrested on 14 May 1940 in akopane and held in the local prison at the Palace Hotel, and later in Tarnów, from where he was brought to Auschwitz in the first transport (14 June 1940). Believed to have been offered his freedom in return for training the German skiing team, but rejected the offer.

In the camp he worked in the Tischlerei (carpenters’) Kommando, and later in the Schnitzerei (wood-carvers’) Kommando, making wooden spoons, clogs, and other wooden items. The first prisoner officially employed in the Lagermuseum (December 1941). Transferred to a cleaner’s job in the SS offices (February 1944). Sent to the camp hospital in March 1944, when his health deteriorated, and died there three months later, despite the devoted care of fellow-prisoners.

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03/06/2026

In June 1940, as N**i Germany invaded France, JDC’s European Headquarters in Paris closed and Lisbon became the new center of operations.

From its wartime European HQ in Lisbon, JDC bought blocks of passenger space on transatlantic vessels for thousands of emigrants fleeing Europe, maintained refugees in transit and those remaining in Portugal, including those without valid visas detained by the government.

View photos from Lisbon: https://archives.jdc.org/project/portugal-lisbon-elsewhere/

03/06/2026

This Facebook post by "Historic Vault" inadvertently revealed the truth. It's not about history or memory. It explicitly admits that the image was AI-generated. The prompt also indicates that it is automated activity. It is content farming that uses victims' suffering as raw material.

The only fact here is the creator’s free image-generation limit.

Those who produce and circulate such images show little concern for history, evidence, or victims' dignity. They replace real people, real documents, and real places with artificial sentiment crafted for engagement.

Platforms such as Facebook make this worse by allowing fake AI-generated images and videos of Auschwitz and other Holocaust-related sites to spread without clear labels. By failing to moderate or at least flag fabricated material, they contribute to historical distortion.
This matters because such content does not merely falsify history. It actively harasses the memory of the victims.

When users search for “Auschwitz” and increasingly encounter fabricated AI videos and images rather than authentic historical documentation, the platform is not neutral. It is helping disinformation gain visibility.

Memory and historical truth deserve stronger protection.