This Week in Jewish History

25 September 1941:

In Kiev, 2,000 notices were posted around Kiev ordering all Jews to appear the next day with documents, warm clothes and valuables. Its result was the Babi Yar massacres. According to German records, 33,771 Jews, were slaughtered in a Ravine outside of Kiev. The massacre is immortalized in Yevgei Yevtushenko's poem "Babi Yar". The monument placed on the site does not mention Jews.

25 September 1967:

Kfar Etzion was reestablished by the children of the original settlers. The kibbutz was destroyed and its defenders (including women) massacred after surrendering in May 1948.

30 September 1938:

Hitler convinced Chamberlain and Daladier that he wanted to protect German rights in the Sudetenland by annexing it, (the 'Munich Agreement') and that he had no further demands. Chamberlain gave in, claiming that by doing so he had achieved peace "in our time".

1943:

On Friday morning the day before Rosh Hashana Rabbi Mechior of Copenhagen canceled services for the new year. During the next few weeks almost all of the 7,000 Danish Jews were smuggled to Sweden.

This material has been adapted from Elli Wohlgelernter and Beyond Time and History © by Eli Birnbaum

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