22 February 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Cili Been, was born in Rotterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz in August 1942 and murdered in the gas chamber. - ThreadSky

auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social • 16 hours ago

22 February 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Cili Been, was born in Rotterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz in August 1942 and murdered in the gas chamber.

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isleinthestorm.bsky.social•16 hours ago

😥

cindywritesfunny.bsky.social•16 hours ago

🙏❤️🕯

pimbina.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Cili van Been: murdered together with her mother Esther (1904), her brothers Abraham (1928) and Max (1930), and her sister Kitty (1938). Her father Levie (1901) perished a month later.

emagnis.bsky.social•15 hours ago

💔🕯️

elisevik.bsky.social•16 hours ago

1 am here. Cili will haunt my dreams tonight. Thank you for that, Auschwitz Memorial. She deserves to have space in my head and heart.

May her memory be a blessing.

Never again.

lotsoftime.bsky.social•16 hours ago

May her memory be a blessing.

magic-cauldron.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Sweet Cili. ❤

thejerf.bsky.social•4 hours ago

It’s maddening seeing post after post of innocent lives taken away. Thank you for posting and keeping their memory alive.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•16 hours ago

1/n Wolf van Naarden (b. 1920), nicknamed 'Wollie', was the sole survivor of this transport that set out on August 3, 1942, from Westerbork to Auschwitz.
After the war, he testified in Rotterdam that his entire family had been given three days to report to the assembly point at

rudigeerts.bsky.social•16 hours ago

2/n the the city gate (Poortgebouw). The deportees were ordered to reach this location by July 29, 1942 and from there they were taken to Westerbork where they spent three days prior to departure. Westerbork was guarded by Dutch gendarmes, members of the Marechaussee, who also

rudigeerts.bsky.social•16 hours ago

3/n watched over the deportees as they proceeded from the camp to the train station in Hooghalen. In his testimony, Wolf van Naarden related that when they reached the ramp at Auschwitz, SS men hurried them from the train, forcing them to leave suitcases behind and form lines.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•16 hours ago

4/n All the men walked, without exception. Cars waited for the women and children, and van Naarden managed to advise his sister to allow herself to be driven as well. After they reached the camp, a Belgian Jewish prisoner who worked in one of

Wolfs cousins; perished in Sobibor

rudigeerts.bsky.social•16 hours ago

5/n the offices spoke with them and revealed the reality of their situation: He told them that “the best thing is to walk to the fence [commit suicide],” that the water was toxic and they mustn’t drink it, and that it was permissible to assault Jews, and so on. The number 56247

rudigeerts.bsky.social•16 hours ago

6/n was tattooed onto van Naarden’s forearm. He added that on the night of their arrival in the camp, the deportees slept in the sauna (the disinfection building of the camp) and the next day they were taken to the barracks. The man in charge of the barracks called each one out