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1/3 Today, Ambassador @BakhtariManizha delivered a statement at the 13th Session of the #AoP of the @IACA_Academy in Vienna. She stressed the urgent need to support the women of Afghanistan in accessing education & anti-corruption training, as they continue to face significant ⬇️

11 November 1904 | Dutch Jew, Marcus Koster, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork and registered in the camp. He perished there on 22 September 1942.

10 November 1892 | Italian Jew, Mario De Benedetti, was born in Mantua. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Fossoli camp on 5 April 1944. After the arrival selection, he was registered in the camp. He perished in Mauthausen camp on 7 April 1945.

10 November 1929 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helga Hošková-Weissová, was born in Prague. Deported from #Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen. Today she turns 95. Happy birthday!

10 listopada 1941 | W Amsterdamie urodziła się holenderska Żydówka Frederika Madeleine van Coevorden. W lipcu 1942 r. została deportowana do #Auschwitz i po selekcji zamordowana w komorze gazowej.

15 October 1904 | A Polish Jew, Abram Godik, was born in Warsaw. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 18 May 1942. No. 35702 He perished in the camp on 14 August 1942.

15 October 1943 | A transport of 74 Jews deported from Berlin arrived at #Auschwitz. 36 people were murdered in a gas chamber after selection. Most of the people in the transport were German Jews - men and women - deported from Otto Weidt workshop in Berlin. Otto Weidt (b. 1883 - in the picture) was the owner of a workshop for the blind and deaf. During the Holocaust, he fought to protect his Jewish workers against deportation. A group of blind and deaf Jews was employed at his shop between the years of 1941 and 1943. When the Gestapo began to arrest and deport his Jewish employees, he fought to secure their safety by falsifying documents, bribing officers and hiding them in the back of his shop. Though Weidt, forewarned, kept his shop closed on the day of the Fabrikaktion in February 1943, many of his employees were deported. After the war, Otto Weidt established an orphanage for survivors of the concentration camps. He died of heart failure in 1947. On September 7, 1971, Yad Vashem recognized Weidt as a Righteous Among the Nations.

15 October 1902 | A Polish Jew, Jakob Rothblum, was born in Krakow. A salesman. In Auschwitz from 17 October 1941. No. 21858 He perished in the camp on 30 October 1941.

15 October 1930 | Czech Jewish girl, Gertrud Gunst, was born in Prague. In March 1939 she emigrated to Norway. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

15 October 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Jetje Stad, was born in Rotterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in July 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

15 October 1925 | A Polish woman, Genowefa Lachor, was born in Rosochowalec. In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943. No. 32330 In 1944 she was transferred to KL Ravensbrück and liberated there.

15 October 1899 | Czech Jew, Bedřich Bondy, was born in Prague. He was deported to #Auschwitz where he perished on 22 February 1943.

16 October 1931 | A French Jewish boy, Adolphe Frydman, was born in Paris. In June 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

16 October 1923 | A Czech Jew, Hanuš Baš, was born in Prague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.

16 October 1908 | A Czech Jewish woman, Liselotta Weinfeldová, was born in Plzeň. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 19 October 1944. She did not survive.

16 October 1906 | A Pole, Stanisław Lipiński, was born in Płock. An engineer, officer of the Polish Army. In #Auschwitz from 3 February 1943. No. 99833 He perished in the camp on 7 July 1943.

16 October 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Klára Boda, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

16 October 1941 | Polish man, Henryk Lutostański, perished in the Auschwitz camp. He was born in Turkestan in 1902. He was incarcerated in the camp on 6 April 1941. Camp no. 14089. He was 39.

16 October 1900 | A Pole, Julian Gniewosz, was born in Łyków. A tax collector. In #Auschwitz from 6 December 1942. No. 80175 In 1943 he was transferred to KL Buchenwald. He survived.

Gaza: As hostilities continue to force millions to live in overcrowded & unsafe conditions, there has been a devastating surge in violence against women & girls. See how @UNFPA is supporting the most vulnerable, including widows and those without family: unfpa.org/occupied-pales…