Women in the Special Operations Executive used simple but effective tricks to stay undercover and avoid detection:
https://theconversation.com/the-women-spies-who-fooled-the-nazis-with-simple-tricks-251653
Lucie Aubrac’s husband was arrested & he was sentenced to death by the Nazis. She led a dozen Resistance fighters in an ambush of the truck in which her husband was being transported & rescued him. She was 6 months pregnant at the time. She survived WW2 & died Mar 14, 2007 at the age of 94. (3/3)
In one mission, Lucie Aubrac & team rescued 5 captured resistance fighters from police custody in Lyon. (Source: Women in the Resistance, Rossiter, p. 166) After WW2, this story was the theme of Issue 49 of True Comics titled “Lucie to the Rescue.” Her cinematic life in the Resistance was made into a feature film starring Carole Bouquet in the title role. A trailer for the movie may be seen here: (2/3)
Lucie Samuel was better known as Lucie Aubrac. She was a history professor during the day & a member of the French Resistance at night. She & her husband published anti-Nazi propaganda, engaged in sabotage, & freed captured partisans from Nazi custody. Her infant son accompanied her to Resistance meetings. (1/3)
#WW2 #Resistance #France #WomensHistoryMonth
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/mar/16/guardianobituaries.france
The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot has died at age 105.
John "Paddy" Hemingway was originally from Dublin and was 21 years of age during the fierce air defense against the Nazis that took place over 3 months in 1940.
After WW2, Sara Ginaite continued to fight rampant anti-semitism. She became a professor of Political Economics at Vilnius University. She published on the history of the Holocaust in Lithuania, including “Resistance and Survival: The Jewish Community in Kaunas 1941–1944.” Her husband Misha died in 1983 & she subsequently immigrated to Canada to live with her 2 daughters. She died April 2, 2018 at the age of 94. (9/9)
At the time of liberation of the ghettos, ~90% of the Jews had already died or been killed by the Nazis. Sara Ginaite’s mother and sister were already forced to a concentration camp.
It was not until 1945 & the end of the war, when Sara found out the fate of her family. Her mother died in the concentration camp. All of her family was dead, except her sister & a young niece. (8/9)
#WW2 #Resistance #Lithuania #WomensHistoryMonth #antifa #Holocaust
In 1944, the Russian Red Army advanced on Vilna & Kovno. As the Allies approached, the Nazis liquidated the ghettos of Lithuania. The partisans joined forces with the Russians & Sara & Misha took part in the liberation of Vilna & Kovno. The iconic photo of Sara with her rifle was taken by a Jewish Soviet major who was surprised to see a female, Jewish partisan standing guard in Vilna. (7/9)
Sara Ginaite & others helped Jews escape from the ghettos. Once, in order to smuggle weapons into the ghetto, she pretended to be a German nurse claiming she was there to escort 4 sick Jews who needed to be detained. Flirting with the Nazi guard she was able to distract the Germans & managed to get the armed partisans through the gate. (5/9)
The partisans in the Rudninkai Forest included ~40 fighters & included Poles, escaped Soviet POWs, Lithuanian paratroopers, & 11 Jews from the ghettos. Over time, the detachment grew to number 300 fighters with the majority Jews. (4/9)
In the winter of 1943, in a daring escape plan, a truck appeared at the ghetto gate, the driver claiming to need forced labor for a night shift. Some of the Jewish ghetto police at the gate were in on the plan. They went into action to deceive the Nazi guards. A shout went up & they forcibly detained the nearby Jews, forcing them into the truck. But instead of taking them to forced labor, the truck drove on to the Rudninkai Forest where Sara & Misha joined the partisans. (3/9)
#WW2 #Resistance
Sara Ginaite’s family & 40,000 other Jews were forced into the Kovno Ghetto. In the ghetto, a 17 y/o Sara joined the Anti-Fascist Organization, met & married her husband Misha Rubinson, & the two decided to flee the ghetto to fight the Nazis. Her mother did not want Sara to leave the ghetto, fearing for her daughter’s life. Ultimately, Sara’s sister promised she would not leave her mother’s side if her mother allowed Sara to escape. (2/9)
Mar 17, 1924: On this date Sara Ginaite was born in Kovno, Lithuania. She was a Jewish Lithuanian partisan veteran of WW2. Lithuania was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1941 & anti-Jew pogroms by Germans & Lithuanians began. The Kaunas pogrom led to the massacre of 9200 Jews, almost half children, & 3 of Sara’s uncles.
“In this moment, I decided that I am not going to die how the Germans preferred for me. I will join any underground organization & I will really be the master of my fate.” (1/9) #WW2
"The Trump administration is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge in the coming days, according to four sources familiar with the discussions."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/alien-enemies-act-deportation-consideration/index.html
In Mar 2023, Ian was a guest at the #DonbassDevushka podcast, spouting about American #fascism, #Zelensky's cocaine addition, and praising the brave #soviet efforts during #WW2. He hasn't commented on the exposé of her actually being a Jersey girl with a fake accent.
18/24
Ahhhh the good ol’ sayings. For the young ones here #Seppo means
septic tank which is cockney slang for yank.
Common in #Australia during #WW2.
I expecting to next see people pointing out what garbage the Hollywood WW2 movies.
Neben dem #schreiben ist mein anderes großes Betätigungsfeld ja #airsoft #livinghistory
Ein Grund warum ich u.a. WW2-Filme nicht anschauen kann ohne in die Tischkante zu beißen.
Frei nach dem Motto:
A: "Ich bin ein totaler WW2-Experte!"
B: "Ach ja, dann nenne mir 6 verschiedene deutsche Panzer!"
A: "Panzer I, II, III, IV, V und VI!"
B: "Es liegt an mir. Es war zu einfach."
@Npars01 @davetroy
RE
economic warfare that led to #ww2
And there was the BIG TALK, like what #Trump has done this week and especially today 2025 Mar 11
“The only thing that makes sense is for #Canada to become our cherished #FiftyFirstState," Trump posted on Tuesday. #51State
TARIFF TYRANT TRUMP KICKS CANADA HARDER!
1,500 Belgian resistance fighters were allowed to write to loved ones before the Nazis murdered them.
The Heroes of the Resistance and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel are working to memorialize those in the Belgian Resistance martyred fighting Nazism.
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