Bernard Schalscha

October 9, 1974. Oskar Schindler collapsed on a street in West Germany. When authorities searched his apartment, they found almost nothing: unpaid bills, old letters, and money sent from Israel. For the last years of his life, the Jews he saved during the Holocaust were paying his rent and buying his food. Because Oskar Schindler died broke. And he was broke for one reason: he spent his fortune saving people. The strange part is that Schindler didn’t start as a hero. He was a Nazi Party member. A war profiteer. A heavy drinker. A serial adulterer. In 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, Schindler saw opportunity. He took over a Jewish-owned factory in Kraków and got rich producing enamelware for the German military using cheap Jewish labor. At first, survival wasn’t the goal. Profit was. Then he witnessed the liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto in 1943. He watched SS troops shoot civilians in the streets. Children ripped from parents. People hunted like animals. Something changed in him after that. Schindler began using his factory differently. He bribed Nazi officers constantly — with cash, alcohol, jewelry, anything they wanted — to keep his Jewish workers alive. He built a subcamp at his factory where conditions were far safer than the concentration camps nearby. He smuggled food. Bought medicine on the black market. Protected workers from deportation. Every bribe cost money. He kept paying anyway. Then came 1944. The Nazis started emptying camps and sending prisoners to Auschwitz. Schindler knew his workers would be killed if they stayed behind. So he made “the list.” 1,200 names. Men. Women. Children. The elderly. He claimed they were all essential workers needed for the war effort. It was a lie. But it saved 1,200 lives. When one train carrying the women was accidentally sent to Auschwitz, Schindler personally traveled there and bribed officials until they were released. By the end of the war, he had burned through his entire fortune. Everything was gone. After Germany collapsed, Schindler failed at almost every business he tried. Argentina failed. Farming failed. A cement company failed. Eventually he ended up alone, bankrupt, and forgotten in a small apartment in Frankfurt. Except by the people he saved. The “Schindlerjuden” supported him for the rest of his life. They mailed him money every month. Paid his bills. Kept him alive. And when he died in 1974, they buried him in Jerusalem. Not because he was perfect. He wasn’t. He began as a profiteer inside one of history’s worst regimes. But at some point, Oskar Schindler made a choice: keep the money, or save people. He chose people. And 1,200 descendants are alive today because he did.

Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira, militante féministe et pionnière de la Révolution sexuelle, fut assassinée par sa mère @WomenNewsVzla

آرشیا قیصربیگی هستم. متهم به محاربه و افساد فی‌الرض شده‌ام. جانم در خطرست. صدایم باشید!

Ben heureusement que c'est résiduel.

18 May 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Clara Sophie Bloch, was born in Amsterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 22 July 1942 in a transport of 931 Jews deported from Westerbork. She was among 155 people murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

Le Kremlin est sous surveillance et le président russe ne se fie plus à personne. Surtout pas à son ancien ministre de la Défense, épinglé comme potentiel putschiste. ✍️ par : @AmourskyCyrille 🔗 : urls.fr/wZ1Ok0

من فرزاد مرادی، از معترضان ایذه هستم و محکوم به اعدام. صدایم باشید!

A ce stade, ça devient une véritable Opération Spéciale de Désinformation...

Derrière le ridicule du "blackface" du leader autoproclamé des victimes de la colonisation, toute l’impasse de l’idéologie racialiste et victimaire de Mélenchon... @le_Parisien

En toute décontraction, @MathildePanot était hier au micro du média Nouvelle Aube, ouvertement LGBTQphobe, antisémite, pro-Erdogan, anti-kurde, négationniste du génocide arménien,... (Entretien entrecoupé d'images du cortège pro-régime iranien tant qu'à faire 🤷‍♂️)

Non Alain Juillet. La « vraie solution » serait d’arrêter de reprendre la propagande russe. La guerre peut s’arrêter à tout moment comme elle a commencé : quand l’armée russe se retirera d’un pays où elle n’a rien à faire.

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Guote from a citizen of Ukraine about President Zelensky: "What Zelensky is doing now at the international level, no president of Ukraine could have even dreamed of, it is simply an epochal figure, I am proud of our leader, he literally saved Ukraine in 2012, when he collected aid from all over the world, and continues to do so every day, respect!" 🇺🇦❤️ He is Legend🫡

April 1944. Two little girls arrived at Auschwitz holding hands. Andra was 4 years old. Tatiana was 6. They wore matching gray coats with yellow stars stitched onto them. To the guards on the Birkenau ramp, they looked like twins. That mistake saved their lives. The sisters, Andra and Tatiana Bucci, came from Fiume — a city that was Italian at the time and is now part of Croatia. Their father was Catholic. Their mother, Mira, was Jewish. For years, they lived an ordinary childhood. Then came the racial laws. Then the arrests. On March 28, 1944, soldiers came for the family. The girls, their mother, grandmother, aunt, and young cousin Sergio were all taken away and eventually forced onto a cattle train headed for Auschwitz-Birkenau. When they arrived, Dr. Josef Mengele stood on the selection ramp deciding who would live and who would die. Most small children were sent directly to the gas chambers. But Mengele was obsessed with twins for his experiments. Andra and Tatiana were not twins — they were two years apart — but dressed alike, they appeared to be. So they were spared. Their grandmother and aunt were murdered almost immediately. The girls were tattooed with numbers: 76483. 76484. In Auschwitz, names were meant to disappear. But their mother refused to let that happen. At night, Mira secretly visited the children’s barracks whenever she could. She risked beatings and death just to whisper the same words to her daughters over and over: “Never forget your names.” Not prayers. Not promises. Just their names. “Andra Bucci.” “Tatiana Bucci.” In a place designed to erase identity, remembering who you were became an act of resistance. The girls later said they didn’t fully understand the horror around them. They were too young. Auschwitz became their version of normal life. But they remembered fear. They remembered children disappearing. Doctors in white coats would come into the barracks and take children away. Most never returned. One day, a prisoner warned the sisters that someone would soon ask which children wanted to see their mothers. “Do not move,” she told them. “No matter what.” The girls obeyed. But their cousin Sergio stepped forward. He missed his mother. The sisters watched him leave. He was later murdered after being used in medical experiments along with other children. Andra and Tatiana survived partly because they stayed silent and invisible. Then, in January 1945, the camp suddenly changed. The guards vanished. The barking dogs stopped. And Soviet soldiers entered Auschwitz. One of them handed the girls a piece of salami. Liberation had arrived. But freedom did not instantly heal anything. The sisters spent months in orphanages, moving between countries, speaking broken mixtures of German, Czech, and other languages. For a time, they even forgot Italian. Then, in England, someone showed them a photograph. It was their parents’ wedding picture. “Your mother and father are alive,” they were told. Their mother had survived. Their father had survived. And they had spent months searching for their daughters across postwar Europe. When the girls were finally reunited with their mother in Italy, they cried. Not because they were happy. Because they no longer recognized her. Trauma had stolen even that. Slowly, over time, they rebuilt their lives. For decades, they rarely spoke publicly about Auschwitz. Then in the 1990s, they decided silence was no longer enough. Since then, Andra and Tatiana Bucci have spent years speaking to students and returning to Auschwitz to tell people what happened there. Today, they are among the youngest surviving people with living memories of Auschwitz. And after everything that camp tried to erase, two things survived: Their names. And their mother’s whisper in the darkness: “Never forget who you are.”

May 15, 1944 | Irma Abelesová and her husband Arnošt Abeles are sent on a transport among other 2,501 prisoners from Theresienstadt Ghetto to Auschwitz. They are two of the 2,367 murdered of this transport. #AuschwitzExhibition #NotLongAgoNotFarAway

Il faut faire ça à Sciences Po 👇🏼

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and members of other nations went through the Soviet machine of terror. The overwhelming majority of them – simply for being who they were. Today, together, we honored the memory of those killed by political repression at the Bykivnia Graves National Historical Memorial Preserve and also laid flowers at the Memorial Sign of Polish Burials. These historical events of Russia’s savagery remind us again and again that evil cannot remain unpunished; otherwise, repression and abuse return with renewed force. Now, when thousands of our people – prisoners of war and civilian detainees – remain in Russian captivity and are going through the same trials, it is important not to forget this. At all levels, the necessary efforts must be made to bring back each and every one of them. And above all, we must ensure that justice is served and that the criminals are held accountable for their actions. The free world has enough strength to ensure this.

Our responses to Russia’s prolongation of the war and its attacks on our cities and communities are entirely justified. This time, Ukrainian long-range sanctions reached the Moscow region, and we are clearly telling the Russians: their state must end its war. Ukrainian drone and missile manufacturers continue their work. I am grateful to the Security Service of Ukraine and all the Defense Forces of Ukraine for their precision. The distance from Ukraine’s state border is over 500 km. The concentration of Russian air defense in the Moscow region is the highest. But we are overcoming it. Glory to Ukraine!

17 May 1938 | A French Jewish girl, Arlette Sokolski, was born in Douai. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 17 September 1942 in a transport of 1,048 Jews deported from Mechelen / Malines. She was among 717 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

Jour 093, orbite 1439 – La science du dimanche matin avec Sophie, épisode 7 : l’électricité statique 🎥 @esa /@NASA #εpsilon • @esaspaceflight • @Space_Station • @NASA_Johnson • @ESA_fr • @CNES