Różka Grossman kept a cat in her family’s apartment in the Łódź ghetto. This photo is one of thousands taken by her brother Mendel to document daily life in the ghetto. 📷: Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum
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- #OTD in 1944, German and Dutch authorities discovered and arrested Anne Frank, her family, and four other Jews who were hiding in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Otto Frank, the annex’s sole resident to survive, ensured that Anne’s words live on. Photo: Anne Frank Fonds
- By summer 1943, deportations to Treblinka had nearly stopped. Fearing they would be killed, Jewish prisoners revolted #OTD, setting fire to the camp and attacking guards. Pictured is smoke rising from the Treblinka killing center the day of the uprising. Photo: Bildarchiv
- Romani survivor Ceija Stojka survived three Nazi camps and lost nearly 200 members of her family during the Holocaust. She remained silent for almost 40 years before turning to art to tell her story: "I picked up a pen because I had to open myself, to scream." 📷: Christa Schnepf
- #OTD in 1944, the Warsaw Uprising began. Fighting raged as civilians joined the Polish Home Army in the battle against the Germans. Jan Kostanskí (pictured right) wanted to fight, but his mother forbade him. She needed the Polish teenager's help hiding their Jewish neighbors.
