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Photograph: Bombing of London 1940
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Blitz Around Britain
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-blitz-around-britain
The Blitz Around Britain
The 'Blitz' – from the German term Blitzkrieg ('lightning war') – was the sustained campaign of aerial bombing attacks on British towns and cities carried out by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) from September 1940 until May 1941.Imperial War Museums
12 October 1892 | Edith Stein was born in Wrocław. She was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism, became a theologian & a Carmelite nun. She was murdered in Auschwitz in August of 1942.
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In Auschwitz from 27 August 1943
No. 140964
Transferred to Fürstengrube sub-camp.
In 1945 he was on a death march, ending up on one of the ships in the Lubeck Bay that were mistakenly bombed by the British RAF on 3 May 1945. More than 7,000 prisoners were killed. Jakub survived.
After the war he emigrated to Australia.
Today he turns 98.
Happy birthday.
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