Kim Willsher
@kimwillsher1
Foreign correspondent.
Guardian/Observer.
Former Reporter of the Year: UK Press Awards.
Views own: RT≠ endorsement.
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11 April 1987 | Primo Levi passed away. He was an Italian Jewish writer & chemist.
From 26 February 1944 a prisoner of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz no. 174517.
In September 1947 he published his book 'If this is a man'. #poetry #history #OnThisDay #PrimoLevi
11 April 1919 | Norwegian Jewish woman, Marie Sachnowitz, was born in Larvik.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
11 April 1935 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Csibi Szilvia Guttman, was born.
In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
11 April 1919 | A Czech Jew, Karel Klinger, was born in Prague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto with his brother Zdenek on 28 September 1944. They did not survive.
Who doesn’t love a story needing dozens of right of reply pages, being yelled at by press officers, threats of GMC & COPE referral, Twitter suspension, press hatchet jobs, entry on block lists…Hannah Barnes said if story not on red list not worth doing. (Same applies to Covid too)
Together with Alice J Edwards UN Special Rapporteur Torture Mama Fatima Singhateh Dorothy Estrada Tanck I have recently sent a letter to the Government of the #Gambia in which we comment on the Women’s (Amendment) Bill 2023 which intends to repeal the Women’s (Amendment) Act 2015, including a ban on #FGM . It can be…