March 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.
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1918
Yoel Palgi Is Born
Yoel Palgi, born Emil Nussbacher in Cluj, was born in 1918. Biographical records do not agree on the day.
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Europe
December 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.
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Europe
August 29, 1910
Georges Loinger Is Born
On this day, August 29, 1910, Georges Loinger was born in Strasbourg. He later helped about 350 Jewish children escape from occupied France into Switzerland.
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Europe
1910
Henryk Ross Is Born
Henryk Ross, later an official photographer in the Łódź ghetto who also made a secret record of ghetto life, was born in Warsaw in 1910. The exact day is not confirmed.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
December 31, 1908
Simon Wiesenthal Is Born
On this day, December 31, 1908, Simon Wiesenthal was born in Buczacz. After surviving Mauthausen he spent decades documenting Nazi crimes.
Antisemitism · World War II · Holocaust
Europe
19–20 October 1905 (Julian / Old Style; 1–2 November 1905 Gregorian)
Second Kishinev Pogrom Begins
The second Kishinev pogrom began on 19–20 October 1905, Old Style / Julian, immediately after the October Manifesto. That is 1–2 November 1905 Gregorian. YIVO records 19 Jews murdered and 56 wounded.
Europe
July 3, 1904
Theodor Herzl Dies
On July 3, 1904, Theodor Herzl died at Edlach in Lower Austria. He was 44.
Zionism · Antisemitism · Israel
Europe
August 3, 1902
Regina Jonas Is Born
On this day, August 3, 1902, Regina Jonas was born in Berlin. In 1935 she became the first woman known to have been ordained as a rabbi.
Holocaust · Antisemitism · Rabbinic Judaism · World War II
Europe
February 14, 1896
Theodor Herzl Publishes Der Judenstaat
On this day, February 14, 1896, Theodor Herzl’s pamphlet Der Judenstaat was published. It argued for a sovereign Jewish state as a political answer to modern antisemitism.
Europe
July 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.
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Europe
July 17, 1862
U.S. Law Opens the Army Chaplaincy to Rabbis
On this day, July 17, 1862, U.S. Army chaplain law opened the chaplaincy to regularly ordained ministers of any religious denomination, including rabbis.
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