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...
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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...
Pogrom in Libya during WWII, 140 Killed, 1945
On This Day in Jewish History: November 5-7, 1945. On November 5, 1945, anti-Jewish riots broke out in Tripoli, Libya. Over the course of...
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%...
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...
23,600 Jews are Murdered in the Kamenets-Podolski Massacre, 1941
On This Day in Jewish History: August 27-29, 1941. Kamenets-Podolski is a city in Western Ukraine (previously the Soviet Union) that had...
Hebron Massacre Takes Place, 1929
On This Day in Jewish History: August 23, 1929 On this day, the evening of 23rd August 1929, the ‘Hebron Massacre’ commenced. Ending on...
Hugh of Lincoln Disappears, Setting the Stage for One of The Most Notorious Blood Libels, 1255
On This Day in Jewish History, July 31, 1255 On July 31, 1255, 9 year old Hugh of Lincoln went missing. Nearly 1 month later, on August...
Minsk Ghetto is Established, 1941
On This Day in Jewish History: July 28th, 1941. On July 28, 1941, one month after the Germans captured Minsk, the Minsk Ghetto was...
Treblinka Death Camp Closes Operation, 1944
On This Day in Jewish History: July 23, 1944 . Treblinka Extermination Camp, originally established as a forced-labor camp, quickly...
Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens, 1936
On This Day in Jewish History: July 12, 1936 . The Sachsenhausen concentration camp opened. Sachsenhausen was designed to express the...
Polish-led Kielce Pogrom Ensues, 42 Jews Killed & 40 Injured, 1946
On This Day in Jewish History: July 4th, 1946 . A mob of Polish soldiers, police officers, and Polish civilians murdered at least 42 Jews...
Bedzin Ghetto is Established
On This Day in Jewish History: July 1, 1940 #onthisday the Bedzin Ghetto was established in Bedzin, Poland. It would last until January...
Słonim Ghetto Revolt Takes Place, 1942
On This Day in Jewish History: June 29, 1942 The Słonim ghetto, located in the town of Słonim in Western Belarus was initially part of...
Minsk Captured by Nazis, Trapping 40K Jews (1941)
On This Day in Jewish History: June 28, 1941 . On this day in 1941, the Nazi German Wehrmacht seized Minsk in Belarus, trapping 80,000...
14,000 Jews of Iași, Romania Murdered in Pogrom
ON THIS DAY in Jewish History: June 28, 1941 The Jews of Iași, Romania are hit with the brunt of an 8 day pogrom at the hands of Romanian...
Cairo Jewish Quarter Bombed; 22 Jews Killed, 41 Injured
On This Day in Jewish History: June 20, 1948 . 1948, the infamous Cairo bombings that targeted ancient Jewish areas specifically began –...
Jew-hating Ukranian Cossack “Haidamacs” brutally massacre approximately 8,000 Umani Jews
On This Day in Jewish History: June 19, 1768 . On this day, 1768, Jew-hating Ukranian Cossack “Haidamacs” ("a self-governing warrior,...
Hungarian Blood Libel, 1882
On This Day in Jewish History: April 1, 1882 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNJKjXgrdqa/ On this day, 1882, Christain housemaid Eszter...
Alhambra Decree is Set, 1492
On This Day in Jewish History: March 31, 1492 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNGd4zcLT8N/ We’ve all heard of Columbus sailing the ocean...