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- Women have long been at the heart of resistance, risking everything to protect others and challenge oppression. Hannah Szenes, born in Budapest in 1921, became a poet and parachutist, volunteering to save Hungarian Jews under Nazi occupation. 1/10
- In 1939, as antisemitism rose, Hannah left Hungary for Mandatory Palestine. She joined a kibbutz, wrote poetry in Hebrew, studied, and prepared herself for a life of purpose. By 1943, she volunteered for a mission many would never survive. 2/10
- Hannah was selected from hundreds of volunteers and trained with the British Special Operations Executive in Egypt. She learned parachuting, communications, and survival skills — all to return to Europe behind enemy lines and organize rescue efforts for Jews. 3/10
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View full threadFurther reading: • Eli, Eli / A Walk to Caesarea — poem & song history • US Holocaust Memorial Museum — Szenes biography • Essays on women in WWII resistance • Collections of Hannah’s letters, poems & diaries 10/10
- A 17-year-old student is accused of sending antisemitic emails about killing Jews to multiple people in his Queens high school, according to police and sources.
- Angela Orosz-Richt was born in December 1944 in Auschwitz. Not nearby. Not after liberation. Inside the camp itself. A place engineered for mass death — and yet, a newborn entered the world there, carried by a woman who somehow kept going when survival wasn’t supposed to be possible. 1/10
- Her mother, Vera, was starving, imprisoned, and had been subjected to medical experiments. Pregnancy in Auschwitz was effectively a death sentence. She hid it as long as she could and gave birth on a wooden bunk, without doctors, medicine, or safety. 2/10
- Angela’s father, Tibor Bein, was deported with them but separated on arrival. He was killed a few months later, and most of her extended family perished as well. Angela’s birth was a rare moment of life in a world that had already lost so much. 3/10
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View full threadFurther reading: • Montreal Holocaust Museum — survivor profile • World Jewish Congress interviews • Reporting on the Auschwitz guard trials • Angela Orosz-Richt’s courtroom testimony www.youtube.com/watc... 10/10
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- Was talking with @leahmillis.bsky.social about what's happening with WaPo the other day! Check out Leah's posts for some more info! I gave up my subscription, but WaPo is my local paper! The Metro and Food sections are the best part!
- This exchange occurred as part of a session before the House Ways and Means Committee in June 2025. Only seeing this now and sharing cause the caption makes good points. Will share @powherdata.bsky.social's screenshot in the 🧵 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @repstaceyplaskett.bsky.social
