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Himmler Orders Construction of Auschwitz, 1940
On This Day in Jewish History: April 27th, 1940 On April 27th, 1940, Heinrich Himmler, the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany,...
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Death Marches from Dachau Begin, 1945
On This Day in Jewish History: April 26, 1945 On this day, April 26, 1945, death marches from Dachau began.. The march from Dachau...
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Salamo Arouch Passes Away, 2009
On This Day in Jewish History: April 26, 2009 Salamo Arouch (born Salamon) was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1923. Arouch grew up in a...
On This Week in Jewish History (January 23-29)
In collaboration with @jewishperspective on Instagram, we have begun to accumulate events in Jewish history week by week. One can find...
Dovid Katz, Trailblazing Yiddish Linguist and Combatant of “Double Genocide” Theory, is Born, 1956
On This Day in Jewish History: May 9, 1956 https://www.instagram.com/p/COrVp7WNCLE/ Katz was born and raised in New York City into a...
Death Marches from Auschwitz Begin, 1945
#OTDJH: January 18th, https://www.instagram.com/p/CY4db4fNq4f/ The death marches from the Auschwitz concentration camp system begin. The...
The Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto Revolt, 1943
On This Day in Jewish History: January 10th, 1943 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYkNnV4txGM/ The Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto was located in the...
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda,Jewish Lexicographer, is Born, 1858
#OTDJH: January 7, 1858 https://www.instagram.com/onthisdayinjewishistory/ Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman) was born in...
Sholem Abramovitsh, Founder of Modern Hebrew & Yiddish is Born, 1835.
On This Day in Jewish History: January 2, 1835 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYPhKgLNIC1/ On this day in 1835, Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh...
Eta Wrobel, Jewish Partisan Fighter, is Born, 1918
On This Day in Jewish History: December 28, 1918 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYCz9Vbtq8p/ On this day in 1918, Jewish partisan fighter...
Yitzhak Zuckerman, Jewish Rebel, is Born, 1915
On This Day in Jewish History: December 13, 1915 https://www.instagram.com/p/CXb62ORNXil/ On December 13, 1915, Yitzhak Zuckerman – who...
Leo Pinsker, Pioneering Zionist Writer, is Born, 1821
On This Day in Jewish History: December 13th, 1821 https://www.instagram.com/p/CXcHC1Jtxyq/ Many of you have heard of Theodore Herzl, the...
Passing of Joseph Schmidt, 1942
On This Day in Jewish History: November 16, 1942 On this day, legendary cantor, world renowned operatic tenor, and sadly long forgotten...
Kristallnacht/November Pogrom, Takes Place, 1938
On This Day in Jewish History, November 9, 1938, A wave of violent anti-Jewish demonstrations broke out throughout Germany, Austria, and...
Odessa Massacre - 25,000 to 34,000 Jews Murdered, 1941
On This Day in Jewish History: October 22-October 24 1941 In Southwestern Ukraine, Odessa had a Jewish population of about 180,000 or 30%...
European Refugees Begin to Arrive in Shanghai, (circa) 1938
On This Day in Jewish History: October 19, 1938 On this day, 1938, a certain number of fortuitous Jews from mostly Central and Eastern...
Ze’ev Jabotinsky is Born, 1880
On This Day in Jewish History: October 18, 1880 On this day, 1880, Ze’ev Jabotinsky was born. Jabotinsky is most famously known as the...
Mania Shochat, Political Activist, is born, 1880
On This Day in Jewish History: October 11, 1880 Born on October 11, 1880 in Western Russia (modern day Belarus), Mania Wilbushewitch...
34,000 Jews massacred by Einsatzgruppen at Babi Yar outside Kiev, 1941
On This Day in Jewish History: September 29-30, 1941 On September 19 the Nazi Army took Kiev and the SS prepared to kill all of the Jews...
Philanthropist, Nazi Hunter and Holocaust Survivor, Simon Wiesenthal, Passes Away, 2005
On This Day in Jewish History: September 20th, 2005 Born December 31, 1908 in Buczacz, Balicia, Austria-Hungary (today Buchach, Ukraine),...