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You can find The Auschwitz Memorial's statement on their Twitter here.

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Auschwitz Memorial calls Greene Holocaust comments a 'sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline'

The Auschwitz Memorial on Tuesday condemned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) comments comparing coronavirus vaccines to the Holocaust.

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So they won't be forgotten

The Auschwitz memorial regularly remembers people murdered in the NS extermination camp. The other day they featured the picture of a child - with a pin of Basque club Real Sociedad on the collar of his jacket. How did this Czech boy come to be a fan of the Spanish team?

by Dirk Segbers

The subject of football and social media inevitably makes us think of those poses of certain players that have become so common: an insta story about a short trip on the private jet, a selfie with NBA stars during summer break, several missteps concerning precious metals in meals.

But every once in a while those social media platforms bring to light stories that would have otherwise probably stayed hidden forever. Stories that show how football was international even a 100 years ago, moving people from all social backgrounds and religions alike. Stories that remind us that we must never stop remembering.

The Auschwitz Memorial uses its social media presence to regularly remember the victims of the Nazi extermination camp by publishing photos and short bios. A few days ago some fans of Spanish first tier club Real Sociedad San Sebastián caught their breath looking a the picture of Jiri Popper, born on 21 July 1923. This Czech boy, who was first deported to Theresienstadt and then from there to Auschwitz in 1943, sported on his collar, clearly visible, a pin with a club crest: that of the long-established Basque club.

But how did the club crest end up on the clothes of a Jewish boy from Czechia? The social networks ran over with theories until the club itself entered the discussion and published an explanation that sounds very plausible, leading back to one of DFB's founding members, which competed in the final for the first German championship in 1903 against VfB Leipzig.

The Deutscher Fußball-Club Prag (Prague German FC) was founded in the Bohemian capital by German Jews at the end of the 19th century. During the 1920s the team, long considered one of the best of the continent, went on a journey of Europe playing several friendlies, among them one on Christmas Day 1923 in San Sebastián against Real Sociedad. DFC won 3:1, losing another match on the next day 0:3. Then in 1924 Real Sociedad toured Central Europe. On the return visit the match between the Basque club and the Praguers ended 11:1 for DFC.

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The officials at Real Sociedad assume there was an exchange of memorabilia at one of those games, which somehow ended up with the parents of Jiri Popper. On the day when the photo was taken the boy proudly wore the pin of a football club he could have only known from stories but which apparently meant so much to him that he wanted to save the crest for posterity on the photo.

Jiri Popper did not survive Auschwitz. But on his 97th birthday we receive his inextinguishable message that our fates are sometimes much more closely related than it may seem.

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The latest Tweets from Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum). Official account. The Memorial preserves the site of the former German Nazi Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.

I’m gonna ask a favor from everyone who follows me and has a Twitter (or several Twitter accounts) to follow the Auschwitz Memorial account.

It is more important than ever that their message and the memories of those who were killed are shared and continued.

they are VERY CLOSE to their goal, but there isn’t much time left. Please follow them now.

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I looked it up myself on Instagram and boy.....

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A heart-breaking moment in an SS picture of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz II-Birkenau taken in May 1944.

A little child found a flower in the grass and is giving or showing it to an older boy.

All the people in this picture were gassed moments later. They are sitting around 100 meters from gas chamber and crematorium IV.

Auschwitz Memorial

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