21 April 1932 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Harry Friedrich Weinberger, was born in Antwerp. On 26 October 1942 he was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz. - ThreadSky

auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social • 13 days ago

21 April 1932 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Harry Friedrich Weinberger, was born in Antwerp.

On 26 October 1942 he was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz.

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joachimhinterhand.bsky.social•13 days ago

Kein Vergessen. Kein Verzeihen.

friendpanda.bsky.social•13 days ago

He. Was. Ten.

What sort of monsters murder a ten-year-old because of how he was born?

Same sort of monsters still doing that today, I guess. :(

May his memory be for a blessing.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•13 days ago

1/n Antwerp has had a Jewish community since time immemorial. Their numbers increased substantially from the end of the 19th century onwards due to migration from Eastern Europe. This trend continued

rudigeerts.bsky.social•13 days ago

2/n during the interbellum period. At the end of the 1930s, Antwerp was the preferred destination for many of the Jews who chose to flee the rampant anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Historians estimate that there were about 35,000 Jews in the city on the eve of World War II.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•13 days ago

3/n Many of them were foreigners, who did not have Belgian nationality.
After the German army occupied Belgium in the spring of 1940, it did not take long before the Germans proclaimed their first anti-Jewish decrees. Registration, identification, bans and stigmatising measures,

rudigeerts.bsky.social•13 days ago

4/n such as the wearing of the yellow Star of David, were enacted in rapid succession. Deportation was the next step, after economic exclusion. Many thousands of Antwerp Jews did not survive the war. The Germans transferred them to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•13 days ago

5/n Antwerp’s police force and city council played a special role in this. They actively assisted the Germans during several large-scale raids in the summer and autumn of 1942. Those Jews that did escape the horror lived in a climate of constant fear.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•13 days ago

6/6 Some went into hiding on time, others succeeded in leaving the country and yet others joined the resistance. In some cases, they were able to rely on the assistance and solidarity of neighbours, friends, clergy and colleagues.