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In late March 1945, the SS sent 24,500 women prisoners from Ravensbrück concentration camp on death march to the north, to prevent leaving live witnesses in the camp when the Soviet Red Army would arrive, as was likely to happen soon. The survivors of this march were liberated on 30 April 1945, by a Soviet scout unit.
The March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau is held annually on Yom HaShoah. Jewish communities and individuals throughout the world commemorate Yom HaShoah in synagogues as well as in the broader Jewish community. Many hold their commemorative ceremonies on the closest Sunday to Yom HaShoah as a more practical day for people to attend ...
Senator John Danforth of Missouri, who originated the resolution, chose April 28 and 29 because it was on these dates that American troops liberated the Dachau concentration camp and a number of its satellite camps in 1945, as well as rescuing hundreds of Jewish-ethnicity camp inmates driven southwards from Dachau by the Nazis on a death march ...
Stalin was suddenly paralyzed on 1 March 1953, which corresponds to Purim 1953, and died four days later. Due to Stalin's death, nationwide pogroms against Jews throughout the Soviet Union were averted, as Stalin's infamous doctors' plot was halted. [127] [128] The 1991 Gulf War, during which Iraq launched 39 Scud missiles against Israel, ended ...
10 March Holocaust Remembrance Day and the "Day of the Salvation of the Bulgarian Jews and of the Victims of the Holocaust and of the Crimes against Humanity" The day of the revocation of the plan to expel the country's Jewish population, officially designated in 2003. [4] Canada: 27 Nisan (April/May)
From this holiday, comes a powerful message for us all. Rabbi Ronald Gerson On Simchat Torah night in the Synagogue, after a procession with the Torahs, two Torahs are placed on the lectern.
The Jewish holiday is a joyful festival that celebrates Queen Esther's courageous plan to save the Jewish people in the Persian Empire. ... The king punishes Haman with death and appoints ...
Rabbi Ronald Gerson believes that the Jewish holiday of Purim can serve as a reminder to beware of those who would sow division for being different. ... But for us Jews, March 23 brings the burst ...