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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began just a few weeks prior on April 19, 1943 ended with this brutal act. After several weeks of intense fighting between German military officials and Jewish Partisan + various Polish resistance groups, the uprising came to an end.
Eichmann would rise through the ranks, and his superiors satisfied with his work would see him moved to the Gestapo where he was placed as director of Section IV – Jewish Affairs. 
The two had accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority-controlled city and were taken into custody by Palestinian Authority policemen.
The child of Hungarian-Jewish and Syrian-Jewish parents, the latter of which descended from a Middle Eastern family that can trace its ancestral tree back to Jewish leadership from the Medieval period, Seinfeld grew up in Massapequa on Long Island, New York. 
It was commonly believed that Herzl wrote and published “The Jewish State” in response to the Dreyfus Affair in 1894, but Herzl had encountered and attempted to address vicious antisemitism during his years as a student in the University of Vienna. 
His killers, a gang that went by the name of Les Barbares or “the Barbarians”, had held Halimi hostage for 24 days before burning Halimi alive and dumping him near a train station in the Paris suburb of Saint-Genevieve-de-Bois.
During the summer of 1943 the prisoners in Sobibor noticed that there was a decrease in the number of people who were murdered in the gas chambers. This caused the rumor to spread that Sobibor was going to be liquidated, the prisoners would all be killed, and the camp would close
Gershwin was raised in a Jewish household in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
On March 20, 1911, the mutilated body of a Ukrainian boy named Andrei Iushchinskii was found in a cave near a brick factory. Beilis was employed at the factory and was implicated in the boy’s murder when a lamplighter told authorities the boy had been killed by a Jew. 
Commonly known as a blood libel, these have been a part of Jewish history since at least 1144 when English Jews were accused of the same ridiculous charge - within a century, Jews would be wholly expelled from England until the 1600's.
The Munich Massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by Black September, a Palestinian terrorist group. 
This was an achievement that lasted for 36 years until it was surpassed by fellow American Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. 
Today is marked as his yahrtzeit or "Yom Hiloula of Rav Haim Pinto" - many have the custom of travelling to his tomb in Essaouira, Morocco for a 4 day pilgrimmage festival to pray and celebrate the life of the great Rabbi Haim Pinto of righteous and blessed memory. 
Twain had lived in Austria during 1896, and opined that the Habsburg empire used Jews as scapegoats to maintain unity in their immensely diverse empire. In 1898, he published the article "Stirring Times in Austria". 
The concept of blood libels (or ritual murders) has existed for centuries, the first accusation being made in 1144, England. Blood libels are a canard that falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christian children in order to use their blood in the performance of ‘satanic’ rituals. 
At the age of fifteen he joined the Hatikvah Zionist youth movement but his commitment to the Jewish people, the Jews of Europe in particular, changed forever with the German occupation of France in May 1940.
Avera is the fourth of ten children born to Haili and Agurnesh Mengistu. At the age of five, he emigrated from Ethiopia with his family and made Aliyah to Israel, moving to an apartment in Ashkelon, Israel. 
In Drancy, France, German authorities opened a transit camp in 1941 for French Jewish prisoners. Though it was functioning like a Nazi concentration camp, the French authorities ran the camp until 1943 and were provided aid by the Red Cross and French Jewish organizations. 
This was due to the unilateral Disengagement from Gaza which went into effect on August 15. It was passed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with the supposed dual purpose of improving Israel’s security and international status. 
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Crypto-Jews settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the next century, Buenos Aires developed into a commercial port city. But, there were no traces of Jews living openly as Jews under Spanish rule in 1810.
In 1904, Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger was born to a Chasidic family in Leoncin. In 1907, the Zinger family moved to Radzymin, where his father, Pinkhos Menakhem, became a rosh yeshiva. After their house burned down in a fire, the Zinger family decided that they would move to Warsaw. 