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We pray for Dryburgh House, for Ukraine & the Nr & Middle East. 9.30 am Mass. Tomorrow: 8 am Holy communion, 10.30 am Sung Mass, 6 pm Choral Evensong & Benediction.
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10 November 1941 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Frederika Madeleine van Coevorden, was born in Amsterdam.
In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
ALT Vintage black-and-white photo of a smiling baby sitting on a cushioned surface, wearing a light outfit and with a single tuft of hair on top of the head.
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Eschwege, Germany | The interior of a desecrated synagogue, after the November pogrom in 1938.
#NotLongAgoNotFarAway
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Kristallnacht!
9–10 November 1938, in color.
88 years ago tonight, Nazi SA members, Hitler Youth, and civilians attacked Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses across Germany and Austria. Shop windows were smashed, the word “Jude” was painted on storefronts, and streets were filled with broken glass.
Roughly 7,500 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed, about 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps, and dozens of people were killed.
These colorized photographs show the aftermath: passers-by walking past shattered shop windows and uniformed men standing amid the debris of a ransacked store.
Never forget!
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November 11, 1941 | The first execution at the Death Wall of Auschwitz takes place.
76 prisoners (primarily Poles) are taken, one by one and naked, to the wall in the courtyard of Block 11. There, they are shot in the back of the head at close range.
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Join a major event in Strasbourg marking 80 years since Winston Churchill’s call for European unity. Hear from Rupert Soames, Churchill’s grandson, and leading voices on democracy, human rights and Europe’s future.
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11 November 1941 | On a day celebrated in Poland as the Independence Day, the first execution by a shot in the back of the head at a close range using a small-calibre silent gun took place in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.
It was done in the courtyard of Block 11, at the execution wall, also called “the Death Wall”. The condemned prisoners were led to the wall one by one, naked, with their hands tied behind. Before the execution, each of them had his camp number written on the chest.
Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: youtu.be/3hjDCsqgGY0
The camp commandant, the camp manager, and the camp doctor were present. The execution was performed by Rapportführer Gerhard Palitzsch.
On that day, the Germans shot most probably 76 people: 27 prisoners who were kept in the cells of Block 11 for different reasons and arrested there between October 10 and November 2, and 49 prisoners called from the camp by the Political Department – camp Gestapo. Almost all of them were Polish prisoners.
On their death certificates, it said: ‘Erschiessung wegen Widerstand gegen die Staatsgewalt’ (shot because of resistance activity against the state authority).
One of the executed was a sculptor and reserve lieutenant Tadeusz Lech. Captain Witold Pilecki mentioned him in his report written in 1945: „In the morning of November 11, 1941, colleague 42 approached me, and said: ‘I had a weird dream, I feel that they will blow me away today. Maybe it is a trifle, and yet, if nothing else, it makes me happy that I’ll die on November 11.’ Half an hour later his number was read out among others at the morning roll-call. He bid me a heartfelt farewell and asked me to tell his mother that he had died in good spirits.”
ALT Low-angle view of a reflective puddle at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, showing the execution yard.
ALT Black and white illustration depicting a scene at Auschwitzconcentration camp during World War II, showing shooting execution at the yard of Block 11
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🚨 🇬🇧 LISTEN to Churchill’s grandson, Sir Nicholas Soames, in 2016 on why Churchill would have opposed Brexit:
“The last thing on earth Churchill would have been, would have been an isolationist, to want to stand apart from Europe right now at a difficult time.”
“There’s something awfully un-British about wanting to leave … No, he would not think it’s a good thing to leave. He would have wanted to stay.”
Standing apart from Europe weakens Britain and makes it harder to stand together against Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. Rebuilding our place in the European project strengthens our ability to defend peace and deter those who would dominate the continent.
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Le Bleuet de France est la mémoire de ceux qui sont Morts pour la France. Il exprime notre solidarité envers ceux qui portent encore les blessures de l’Histoire.
À ceux qui ne sont jamais revenus. À nos anciens combattants et nos militaires blessés dans leur chair ou leur âme. Aux veuves, aux veufs, aux familles endeuillées, aux orphelins et aux pupilles de la Nation. Aux victimes d’actes de terrorisme. À celles et ceux qui risquent leur vie pour nous protéger.
Derrière chaque uniforme, il y a le courage. Derrière chaque sacrifice, une famille. Derrière chaque héros, la France qui se souvient.
Ce 11-Novembre, portons le Bleuet. Pour eux. Pour leurs familles. Pour ne jamais oublier.
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We pray for Coleridge St & Cumberland St, for Ukraine & the Holy Land asking the prayers of St Martin. 11 am 2 minute silence in school. 5.30 pm Choral Evensong with @PimlicoMusical 6.30 pm Low Mass. 7 pm Compline & Social.
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November 9-10, 1938 | Jews under arrest paraded at Oldenburg, Germany, during the November pogrom (Kristallnacht).
SA units burned the synagogue and school in Oldenburg, and conducted mass arrests throughout the region.
@yadvashem photo archive.
#NotLongAgoNotFarAway
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The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 was a triumph of courage, freedom and unity.
Throughout the Cold War, #NATO stood firm in defending freedom and security in Europe, helping to create the conditions for peaceful change and German reunification. 1/2
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9 November 1935 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Johnny van Voolen, was born in Haarlem.
In September 1943, he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJ…
ALT A child stands in a field with cows grazing in the background, wearing a striped shirt and shorts.
ALT A young boy smiling at the camera while playing a piano, with a sheet of music and a photo visible in the background.
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November 9-10, 1938 | The November Pogrom in Nazi Germany: 267 synagogues destroyed, over 7,000 Jewish businesses damaged or ruined, and 30,000 Jewish men arrested and sent to concentration camps — all while German authorities stood by without intervening.
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9 November 1928 | Dutch Jewish girl Jenny Trui Spier, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in November 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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A short video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
ALT A photo of a young girl in glasses. She is standing behind a school bench. Other girls are visible behind her.
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9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
In an article on the evening of 11 November, Joseph Goebbels ascribed the events to the "healthy instincts" of the German people: "The German people are anti-Semitic. It has no desire to have its rights restricted or to be provoked in the future by parasites of the Jewish race."
The pogrom changed the nature of the Nazi persecution of Jews from economic, political & social to physical with beatings, incarceration & murder. In this view, it is not only as a large-scale pogrom but also a critical stage within a process which led to genocidal stage.
Reichspogromnacht is also known as the Kristallnacht ("Crystal Night"). This name comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues were smashed.
Only three years after the November Pogrom the physical extermination of Jews began in Germany & German-occupied European territory - first the murder was perpetrated in the East by shooting of the Einsatzgruppen & later in gas chambers of extermination camps, such as Auschwitz.
Exactly 4 years after the November Pogrom - on 9 November 1942 - a transport of 1000 Jews deported by the Germans from District of Białystok arrived at Auschwitz. 190 men & 104 women were registered. The remaining 706 people were murdered in gas chambers.
ALT Black and white photograph showing a two story synagoguge building engulfed in flames, with a large crowd gathered outside observing the scene.
ALT Interior of the damaged Synagogue, showing debris-covered floors and damaged arches.
ALT Black and white historical photograph showing people passing by the damaged storefront with broken windows and debris visible.
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Today we remember the November Pogroms of 1938. Orchestrated violence, the destruction of synagogues, and the murder of Jewish people paved the way for the Holocaust. We remember the victims and remain committed to fight antisemitism today and every day.
