HistoryDecember 15, 1961
Eichmann Is Sentenced to Death
On this day, December 15, 1961, an Israeli court sentenced Adolf Eichmann to death in Jerusalem. The verdict had been read on December 11.
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HistoryOctober 9, 1974
Oskar Schindler Dies
On this day, October 9, 1974, Oskar Schindler died in Hildesheim. Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations in 1993.
HistoryAugust 15, 1940
Eichmann Issues a Madagascar Plan Memorandum
On this day, August 15, 1940, Adolf Eichmann’s office issued a Madagascar Project memorandum calling for the forced resettlement of millions of European Jews on the island.
HistoryDecember 13, 1915
Yitzhak Zuckerman Is Born
On this day, December 13, 1915, Yitzhak Zuckerman, known as Antek, was born in Vilna. He later helped lead the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
History1913
Avraham Sutzkever Is Born
Avraham Sutzkever, the Yiddish poet, was born in 1913. He died in Tel Aviv on 20 January 2010.
HistoryJuly 22, 1878
Janusz Korczak Is Born
On this day, July 22, 1878, Henryk Goldszmit, later Janusz Korczak, was born in Warsaw. He directed an orphanage and was deported with the children to Treblinka in 1942.
HistoryNovember 16, 1942
Joseph Schmidt Dies
On this day, November 16, 1942, the tenor Joseph Schmidt died near the Girenbad internment camp in Switzerland. He was 38.
HistoryFebruary 12, 1942
Avraham Stern Is Killed
On this day, February 12, 1942, British police shot Avraham Stern, founder of Lehi, in a Tel Aviv apartment. The circumstances of the shooting remain disputed.
History1923
Salamo Arouch Is Born
Salamo Arouch, later forced to box at Auschwitz, was born in Thessaloniki in 1923. The exact day is not confirmed.
HistoryMarch 14, 1918
Abba Kovner Is Born
On this day, March 14, 1918, Abba Kovner was born in Sevastopol. He later led resistance in the Vilna ghetto and testified at the Eichmann trial.
HistoryJuly 13, 2000
Jan Karski Dies
On this day, July 13, 2000, Jan Karski died in Washington. The Polish courier had carried eyewitness reports of the Warsaw ghetto and the murder of Polish Jews to Allied governments.
HistoryDecember 11, 1922
Frank Blaichman Is Born
On this day, December 11, 1922, Frank Blaichman was born in Kamionka, Poland. He later commanded a Jewish partisan unit.