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Holocaust resistance to be relived on Twitter

September 19, 2011 08:40

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Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

The extraordinary efforts of a group of German students who resisted the Nazis are to be documented in a series of 140 character messages.

Next Sunday will see a host of stars gather at a London hotel for a ball in aid of the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire.

Liza Minnelli will be performing, while paintings, by graffiti artist Banksy and actress Maureen Lipman , will be auctioned.

The ball has been named after the White Rose, the emblem of the anti-Hitler student resistance movement in Nazi Germany. Many of the members were executed or imprisoned for their activities after the movement was betrayed in 1943.

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