B"H Yom Yom

from Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l

[23 Menachem Av] 
Pogrom in Zhitomir, Russia, 1905, cost many Jewish lives plus the life of a Russian student who tried to help the Jews.

[August 24] 
Jews of Palma were massacred, 1391. 
Jews of Cologne, Germany set fire to their homes and perished in the flames, 1349, to escape forced baptism.
Operation Magic Carpet, which brought 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel, was concluded, 1950.

[24 Menachem Av] 
The Chashmona'im replaced the Hellenic code with a Jewish one. The day was celebrated as a holiday. 
Chmielnicki, Cossack leader with 300,000 Jews lives on this hands, died, 1675.

[August 25]
Illegal Jewish immigrants who had been exiled by the British to the Island of Mauritius were admitted into E. Yisrael, 1945.

[25 Menachem Av] 
Jews expelled from France are invited back by King Louis IX. 
Yahrzeit of Yeshayahu Menachem b. Yitzchak of Cracow, 1599. He was the originator of the Heter Iska. 
Many Jews of Copenhagen were killed when the British bombed the city in 1807. 
The Amsterdam hideout of Anne Frank was discovered by the Nazis, 1944.

[August 26] 
Get this one — the Nazis passed a law, 1938, requiring all Jews to take the names Israel and Sara. Apparently, this was Goebbels way of mocking the Jews, since both names contain the word SAR, a person of power. 
7,000 stateless Jews in the Vichy Free Zone of France were rounded up, 1942. 
Nazis closed all shuls and schools in the Kovno ghetto, 1942. 
The forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion were serialized in a Russian publication, 1903. This document has been a favorite among anti-semites since then.

[26 Menachem Av] 
A group of 70 followers of the Vilna Gaon arrived in Eretz Yisrael, 1809. The Turkish government renounced its sovereignty over E. Yisrael and recognized the British Mandate, 1920. 
10,000 Jews were sent from Borislav ghetto to Belsen, 1942, in the first mass deportation of Jews to the gas chambers.

[August 27] 
The Jewish community of Posvol, Lithuania was massacred by the Nazis, 1941.

[27 Menachem Av] 
Queen Bona Sforza of Poland confirmed upon the Jews the same rights that the Jews of Lithuania had been granted, 1533. 
S.A. Bierfield was lynched by the KKK in Franklin, Tennessee, 1868, the first such incident involving a Jew.

[August 28] 
A Jewish agricultural colony was established in New Jersey, 1891. This was one of several attempts at Jewish settlement in the Americas. The failure of most of these projects confirmed the view that Jews needed a historical and religious link to the soil upon which they would work in order for them to suceed. 
Peter Stuyvesant barred Jews from military service, 1655.

[28 Menachem Av] 
Moshe Rabeinu descended Har Sinai for the second (of three) 40-day period. 
The Council of Four Countries, the autonomous governing body of Polish Jewry, met for the last time, 1762. 
Yahrzeit of the NETZIV, HaRav Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin, Rosh Yeshiva of Volozhin, author of Haamek Davar, 1893.

[August 29] 
Chaim Weizmann informed the prime minister of England, 1939, that the Jews of E. Yisrael would stand by Great Britian and fight on the side of the democracies during World War II. 
T'hilim with Kimchi's commentary was published for the first time in Bologna, Italy, 1477. 
The discovery of the body of a Christian child led to the ritual accusations and hanging of many prominent Jews of England, 1255.

[29 Menachem Av]
 Moshe Rabeinu cut a new pair of Luchot in preparation for G-d's writing the Aseret HaDevarim again. (according to one opinion). 
Jews of Holland were emancipated, 1796. 
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shmuel Salant, chief rabbi and leader of the Ashkenazi community of J'lem, 1909.

[August 30] The Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia was expelled, 1563. 
The first Knesset building was dedicated in Jerusalem, 1966.

[30 Menachem Av] 
Moshe Rabeinu ascended Har Sinai for the third time, to receive the Second Luchot and G-d's forgiveness for the People. 
Yahrzeit of Yitzchak Sadeh, "father" of the Palmach, 1952.

[August 31] 
Secular date of Rav Kook's passing, 1935. 
Massacre of the Jews of Kiev, 1919. 
Hitler issued Directive no.1, 1939 ordering the attack on Poland to begin at dawn the following day.