Yet again we see that Jewish passivity in the Holocaust was a myth. The children pictured below survived thanks to the efforts of Jewish resistance fighters Marianne Cohn & Mila Racine. The photo was taken #OTD 18 August 1944 in France. ow.ly/prSf50vqLhy

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: www.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/...

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.

#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.

Elisabeth Abegg was a German schoolteacher and resistance fighter against Nazism, who during the Holocaust rescued at least 80 Jews from certain death She was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1967 & died #OTD August, 8, 1974 in Berlin.

#OTD 7 August 1942 Esther Frenkel (Horonczyk) threw a letter from the deportation train ow.ly/KBkV50vnXiz "I am on the train. I do not know what has become of my Richard... Save my child, my innocent baby!" They were separated at Pithiviers & murdered in #Auschwitz

Stefa Wilczynska, who worked with Janusz Korzcak in his Warsaw orphanage, completely devoted herself to the love & care of her young charges #OTD 5 August 1942, she was deported to Treblinka & murdered, along with Korczak &the children More: ow.ly/7lNX50FHEIj

Born #OTD 4 August 1912. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg saved thousands of Jews in German occupied Hungary during the Second World War.

My name is Isidore Laks. I was born in Paris in February, 1934 I arrived at Auschwitz on 3 August 1944 in a transport of 1300 Jews deported from Drancy. I did not return.

#OTD 1 August 1944, the Soviet Red Army liberated the city of Kovno. Tragically, the ghetto was liquidated just 3 weeks before liberation. I write about these events in I Am Juden. Over 90% of Jews living in Kovno during the Nazi occupation were murdered during the Holocaust.

#OTD 31 July, 1940 | German police unit publicly abuses and humiliates Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Hagerman in Olkusz, Poland, on “Bloody Wednesday”. The Jews of Olkusz were deported to Auschwitz in 1942, where most of them were murdered.

#OTD 31 July, 1940 | German police unit publicly abuses and humiliates Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Hagerman in Olkusz, Poland, on “Bloody Wednesday”. The Jews of Olkusz were deported to Auschwitz in 1942, where most of them were murdered.

Jewish prisoners standing to attention in Dachau concentration camp, taken #OTD 30 July 1938.

Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising while SS-Rottenführer Josef Blösche points a submachine gun in his direction, 1943. Luckily, the boy survived. Blösche was executed in Leipzig #OTD 29 July 1969.

My name is Francine Finkielsztaj. I was born in Paris on July 28th, 1941. In July 1943, I was deported to Auschwitz and separated from my parents. My last memory is being carried into a shower room. Then the room started to fill with gas. Remember us, please.

#OTD 27th July 1941: Wehrmacht documents first steps in the "Holocaust by bullets”. The last picture of the Jews of Mogilev.

#OTD 26 July 1942 Nazi officer, Albert Battel, ordered the only access to the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl be blocked from the SS effort to liquidate the ghetto. #RighteousAmongstTheNations Read the story & discover the fate of Przemysl's Jews here ow.ly/btzz50vbfH7

#OTD 26 July 1942 Nazi officer, Albert Battel, ordered the only access to the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl be blocked from the SS effort to liquidate the ghetto. #RighteousAmongstTheNations Read the story & discover the fate of Przemysl's Jews here ow.ly/btzz50vbfH7

July 18th 1940, Chiune Sugihara began issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees in Lithuania. I write about this selfless diplomat in I Am Juden. Sugihara's brave efforts during the Holocaust earned him the distinction of Righteous Among the Nations.

Human bones litter the grounds of the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland following its liberation by Soviet forces #OTD July 24, 1944. AFP/Getty Images

21 July 1944 | Two prisoners, a Pole Jerzy Bielecki & a Polish Jew Cyla Cybulska escaped #Auschwitz. They were in love. Jerzy managed to get an SS uniform & staged a fake escort. The escape was successful.

21 July 1944 | Two prisoners, a Pole Jerzy Bielecki & a Polish Jew Cyla Cybulska escaped #Auschwitz. They were in love. Jerzy managed to get an SS uniform & staged a fake escort. The escape was successful.

20-year-old Rachel Polakiewicz & her family were imprisoned in the Vel d'Hiv in Part on 16th July 1942. Less than a month later she was murdered in Auschwitz.

18 July 1947, Jewish Holocaust survivors, deemed to be “illegal immigrants” by the British government, were removed by soldiers from the ship Exodus upon its arrival in Haifa; the survivors were eventually deported to Germany Learn more: ow.ly/ArQw50JNkXs

#OTD 17 July 1925 | German Jewish woman Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was born in Breslau (today Wrocław). A cellist. In #Auschwitz from Dec 1943. Member of the female camp orchestra, liberated in Bergen-Belsen. She turns 101 today. Many happy returns dear Anita!

#OTD 17 July 1925 | German Jewish woman Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was born in Breslau (today Wrocław). A cellist. In #Auschwitz from Dec 1943. Member of the female camp orchestra, liberated in Bergen-Belsen. She turns 101 today. Many happy returns dear Anita!

Jewish youth rescued from the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp show their camp tattoos on board a refugee ship #OTD July 15, 1945. Defiance.

The Güns family survived the Holocaust living under false identities in Croatia This ID card in the name of Miklosch Balogh, Miksa-Misu Güns's false identity, was issued in Kovačica #OTD 13 July 1941 This is their story: ow.ly/80Nl50JNkHm

#OTD July 11, 1942. ‘Black Sabbath’. Nazis summoned ten thousand young Jews to Liberty Square (Salonika, occupied Greece) and tortured and humiliated them. Soon after, they confiscated Jewish property, forced them to wear the yellow badge, and moved the Jews into Ghettos.

"On July 11 they killed my father. I balled my fists; I cried ...”—Michael Kraus Michael's father, Karel, was among the 7,000 Jews imprisoned in the "Czech family camp" (section Bllb) who were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau from July 10–12, 1944. #OTD