[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 Moses Montefiore, 1784.

[19 MarCheshvan] Earliest known Yiddish letter from America (Barnard Gratz to his brother Michael in London), 1785. (Widespread use of Yiddish in America began in 1880 with the large influx of Russian Jews fleeing pogroms. U.S. census of 1940 counted 1,750,000 Yiddish speaking Jews.)

[October 29] Town of Carmiel in the Galil founded, 1964 (twinned with Baltimore). Bomb in Knesset wounded David Ben Gurion and four cabinet ministers, 1957.

[20 MarCheshvan] Restricted rights for Austrian Jews, 1396. Chana Senesh executed, 1944.

[October 30] Anne Frank deported from Auschwitz to Belsen, 1944, where she died five months later.

[21 MarCheshvan] Jews barred from German schools, 1938. Chaim Weizmann died, 1952.

[October 31] Pogrom in Odessa cost 300 Jewish lives, 1905. Earthquake killed several hundred Tzfat Jews, 1759.

[22 MarCheshvan] Jewish physicians barred from treating Christians, Sicily, 1296. Yahrzeit of the Tosfot Yom Tov, 1616. Proposal to establish independent Jewish homeland in Israel, 1818 (by an English missionary to Czar of Russia - go figure). Deportation of Budapest Jews began, 1944 (late?).

[November 1] Jews of England imprisoned, 1210, by orders of King John.

[23 MarCheshvan] Stones of the Mizbei'ach defiled by the Greeks were removed from the Beit Hamikdash area - holiday established to mark date, 164 B.C.E. Italian anti-Semitic code published, 1938.

[November 2] Nazis liquidatd Riga ghetto, 1943. Weizmann Institute of Science dedicated in Rehovot, 1949. Order from Berlin to suspend killing of Jews at Auschwitz, 1944. 12,000 Jews massacared by Chmielnicki's forces, 1648. Balfour Decleration issued, 1917.

[24 MarCheshvan] Yarzheit of Baron Edmund de Rothschild, 1934. Patria, ship with illeagal immigrants, sank in Haifa port, 200 lost, 1940.

[November 3] First settlers to Petach Tikva area, 1878. Jews of Paris expelled, 1394.

[25 MarCheshvan] Mobs attack Jews of Cracow, 1407.

[November 4] Jews of Florence, Italy rounded up and deported, 1943.