B"H Yom Yom B"H Yom Yom from Day by Day in Jewish History by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l [11 MarCheshvan] Yahrzeit of Metushelach. Birthdate of Binyamin. Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu. 180 Jews Killed in Munich Germany, 1285 (how come we don't learn from history?). [October 21] Volumes of the Talmud were burned in Venice, 1553. [12 MarCheshvan] Rindfleisch massacres claim 200 Jewish lives, 1298. The U.N. declares that "Zionism is Racism", 1975. Yahrzeit of Yitzchak Rabin, 1995. [October 22] Israeli forces sank Egypt's King Farouk (a ship), 1948. 6,300 Jews of Baden deported by the Nazis, 1940. Cease fire between Israel and Egypt, Yom Kippur war, 1973. [13 MarCheshvan] Jews of England imprisoned by King John, 1210. First Siddur printed in America, 1760. Anne Frank deported from Auschwitz to Belsen, where she died 5 months later, 1944. [October 23] Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage retail trade, 1668 (even there). Jews of Rome prohibited from erecting tombstones, 1625 (looks like they'd tried everything). Netanya founded, 1927 (named after the same person that the Israel Center's street is named for). 10,000 Jews of the Vilna ghetto executed, 1941. [14 MarCheshvan] Jews of Prague miraculously escaped destruction during a particular battle of the Thirty Years War, 1619. Final British gov't. approval for Balfour Declaration, 1917. Norway's Jewish males deported to Auschwitz, 1942. [October 24] 20,000 Kharkov Jews fall into Nazi hands, 1941. Quisling, Nazi head of Norway, executed, 1945. [15 MarCheshvan] Yahrzeit of Matityahu b. Yochanan Kohen Gadol, 166 B.C.E. Hebrew date of Kristallnacht 1938. Census in Warsaw listed 359,827 Jews, 1939. [October 25] New road to S'dom, 1948. Romanian soldiers massacred 26,000 Jews of Odessa, 1941. [16 MarCheshvan] 15,000 Jews massacred in Rowno, Poland, 1941. "Magic Carpet" Aliya of Yemenite Jews began, 1949. [October 26] Nazis prohibit Sh'chita in Poland supposedly on humanitarian grounds, 1939 (in light of what they were doing to human beings, this could be the ultimate hypocrisy). Mobs attack Jews of Cracow, 1407. [17 MarCheshvan] Beginning of the Mabul (according to R. Eliezer). Chmielnicki's forces massacred 12,000 Jews, 1648. [October 27] Belgium bans ritual slaughter, 1940. [18 MarCheshvan] Hermann Goering announced plans for Madagascar as a home for European Jewry, 1938. 16,000 killed in Pinsk, 1942. [October 28] 10,000 Jews removed from Kovno ghetto for execution, 1941. Birthday of Montefiore, 1784.
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