Jewish history

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The History of the Jews in Ukraine

The Jewish community sometimes experienced periods of persecution and anti-Semitic discrimination in the form of pogroms and massacres.

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Pogrom in Lwów/Lviv

Ukrainian partisans supported by German authorities killed about 4,000 Jews in Lvov during this pogrom.

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Yad Vashem - יָד וַשֵׁם:

Yad Vashem is a memorial in the historical Jewish homeland for Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust.

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Exodus from Egypt / Exodus uit Egypte

A really amazing video about the exodus from Egypt. Een mooie video over het verhaal van de exodus van de Joden uit Egypte.

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Last transport with Jewish prisoners leaves Westerbork, in the Netherlands, for Auschwitz

De transporten van Westerbork naar de concentratie- en vernietigingskampen van de Duitsers.

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The Last Descendant….

There is a special memorial on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem to honor the Holocaust survivors who fell in Israel's 1948 War of Independence.

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Bethsaida Excavations Reveal Possible Royal Escape Tunnel

An escape tunnel may have been identified underneath the Iron Age palace at Bethsaida.