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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...
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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...
Francisco Maldonado da Silva, Jewish Physician, Executed, 1639
On This Day in Jewish History, January 23, 1639 On this day, 1639, Jewish physician Francisco Maldonado da Silva was burned on a stake at...
Jewish Resistance Fighter, Georges Loinger, is born, 1910
On This Day in Jewish History: August 29, 1910. Georges Loinger was born on this day in 1910 in Strasbourg, France. His exploits during...
Drancy Internment Camp is Established in France & 70,000 Prisoners Pass Through Within 3 Years, 1941
On This Day in Jewish History: August 20, 1941 In Drancy, France, German authorities opened a transit camp in 1941 for French Jewish...
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...
German Jewish Photographer Gerda Taro, Documented Spanish Civil War, is Killed in Battle, 1937
On This Day in Jewish History: July 26, 1937 On This Day, German Jewish Photographer, Gerda Taro, Dies at 26. Born Gerta Pahorylle on...
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...
Warsaw Ghetto Begins to be Liquidated, 1942
On This Day in Jewish History: July 22, 1942: On July 22, 1942, the Nazi’s began to implement the Grossaktion (Great Action) as part of...
Righteous Among the Nations, Jan Karski Passes Away, 2000
On This Day in Jewish History: July 13, 2000 On this day, Polish Resistance Fighter and Righteous Among The Nations, Jan Karski, Passes...
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...
Exodus 1947 Ship Sails from France to Israel with 4,500 Holocaust survivors
On This Day in Jewish History: July 11, 1947 . On this day 4,500 Jewish Refugees sail on board the SS Exodus. The ship that made the...
Law of Return is Passed, 1950
On This Day in Jewish History: July 5, 1950 . This monumental event is one of Jewish history's most critically progressive moments in...
The Röhm Affair begins; A Three-Day "Legal" Purge of "Internal Nazi Threats"
On This Day in Jewish History: June 30, 1934 . On this day in 1934, the Röhm Affair began, a three-day purge carried out under orders...
Nuremberg Receives Permission to Expel its Jews
On This Day in Jewish History: June 21, 1498 On this day, 1498, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I, Issue Decree;...
French King Louis Decrees Jews Must Wear Yellow Badge
On This Day in Jewish History: June 19, 1269 . On this day, 1269, King Louis IX of France imposed a decree for Jews to wear a yellow...
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...
Mireille Knoll is Murdered for Being Jewish
On This Day in Jewish History: March 23, 1948 https://www.instagram.com/p/CMxzvZ2r30q/ Unfortunately Mirielle Knoll is known mostly for...
Erich Fromm's Birthday, 1900
On This Day in Jewish History: March 23, 1948 https://www.instagram.com/p/CMyUGVpL6Pe/ On this day, 1900, Erich Fromm was born in...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l is Born, 1948
On This Day in Jewish History: March 8, 1948 https://www.instagram.com/p/CMLiZXgrJ5K/ On this day, 1948, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was...