Israeli history

Israeli history

The history of Israel encompasses the history of the modern State of Israel, as well as that of the Jews in the Land of Israel.

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crematorium

History; Israeli history

A building which housed ovens used for burning bodies in extermination camps during the Holocaust.

Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg fur die Besetzten Gebiete (ERR)

A bureau managed by Alfred Rosenberg, created July 1940, that was responsible for the appropriation of cultural and ideological materials from German occupied territories. Rosenberg's official title ...

Mauthausen

History; Israeli history

A camp for men, opened in August 1938, near Linz in northern Austria, Mauthausen was classified by the SS as a camp of utmost severity. Conditions there were brutal, even by concentration camp ...

confirmation

History; Israeli history

A ceremony found in both the Christian religion and in some branches of the Jewish religion. A sacrament of the Catholic Church, it marks the admission of the person to full membership in the church ...

etrog

History; Israeli history

A citron traditionally used for ritual purposes along with a lulav, haddassim, and aravot, during the harvest festival of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles).The commandment to do so is based on a verse in ...

Radom

History; Israeli history

A city in central Poland of about 100,000 population before World War II, approximately one-third Jewish. After Radom was seized by the German army on September 8, 1939 it was incorporated within the ...

Krasnodar

History; Israeli history

A city in the Ukraine located near the Black Sea. By the time of its occupation on August 9, 1942, thousands of refugees had fled to Krasnodar to escape the advancing German army. During its ...