The Ghetto fightbacks were astonishing, but where are their stories? Hollywood prefers the myth of the Righteous Gentile. Every agent told me, "No market for tales of Jewish Resistance" . I AM JUDEN now a UK Bestseller for 6 months. Thankyou for proving the agents wrong.

RT @StephenUzzell2: My name is Fanny Brukner. I was born in Paris in 1934. I arrived at Auschwitz on 19 August 1942 in a transport of 997 J….

My name is Fanny Brukner. I was born in Paris in 1934. I arrived at Auschwitz on 19 August 1942 in a transport of 997 Jews deported from Drancy. I was among 897 people murdered in the gas chambers immediately after selection.

RT @StephenUzzell2: Wanda Rein married Mordechai Folman #OTD 17th August 1944 in the last wedding to take place in the Lodz Ghetto. One ye….

The children photographed #OTD 18th August 1944 survived the Holocaust thanks to the efforts of Jewish resistance fighters Marianne Cohn & Mila Racine. Learn more about Jews rescuing Jews here:

RT @StephenUzzell2: Lepa Radić, 17-year-old Yugoslav partisan who was sentenced to death for shooting at Nazis. When she was offered a way….

Wanda Rein married Mordechai Folman #OTD 17th August 1944 in the last wedding to take place in the Lodz Ghetto. One year after they were separated at Auschwitz, Wanda and Mordechai Folman were reunited; in 1950 they immigrated to Israel. Read their story in the thread.

Lepa Radić, 17-year-old Yugoslav partisan who was sentenced to death for shooting at Nazis. When she was offered a way out of the gallows if she revealed the names of her comrades, she declined, saying they'd reveal themselves when they came to avenge her death.

RT @StephenUzzell2: This photo shows children standing behind the Lodz ghetto fence #OTD 15 August 1944. In early August 1944, the deporta….

This photo shows children standing behind the Lodz ghetto fence #OTD 15 August 1944. In early August 1944, the deportations from Lodz were rerouted from Chelmno to Auschwitz; by the end of the month, about 70,000 Jews from Lodz had been sent to Auschwitz.

RT @StephenUzzell2: #OTD 14 August 1942 "We are in a sad situation. Mother, Mrs. Wartski have been sent to an unkno….

#OTD 14 August 1942 "We are in a sad situation. Mother, Mrs. Wartski have been sent to an unknown destination" —10 yr old Jackie Zonzajn. 5 days later, Jackie & his 3 yr old sister were sealed in an overcrowded cattle car for 5 days & murdered at Auschwitz

#OTD August 13, 1942, 560 Jews were murdered during the last Aktion of Mir, Belarus. This monument is all that remains.

Jadwiga Bogucka was 19 during the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. She and her mother were sent from their house to a camp in Pruszkow and then moved #OTD August 12, 1944, by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Jadwiga survived and died aged 92.

Jadwiga Bogucka was 19 during the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. She and her mother were sent from their house to a camp in Pruszkow and then moved #OTD August 12, 1944, by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Jadwiga survived and died aged 92.

RT @StephenUzzell2: On 27 March, 1943, gay Dutch resistance fighter Willem Arondeus led the bombing of the Amsterdam civil service office t….

On 27 March, 1943, gay Dutch resistance fighter Willem Arondeus led the bombing of the Amsterdam civil service office to destroy the Nazi occupiers' records of Dutch Jews. His last words before his execution that July were "Tell the people that homosexuals are not cowards."

RT @StephenUzzell2: #OTD August 10, 1889, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was born. She was a Polish writer and a World War II resistance member. Sh….

#OTD August 10, 1889, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was born. She was a Polish writer and a World War II resistance member. She co-founded two Polish wartime organizations: The Front for the Rebirth of Poland and Żegota, to assist Polish Jews in surviving the Holocaust.

RT @StephenUzzell2: #OTD August 9, 1944, officials destroyed the Łódź Ghetto and deported more than 60,000 Jews and an unknown number of Ro….