During the liberation of the ghetto on 18. January, 1945 thousands of unburied dead victims lay on the streets. 1140 known and 1170 unknown martyrs were buried in24 common gravesin the courtyard of the central synagogue. The Dohány Street Synagogue is the only synagogue in the world that ha...
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The Jews were again forbidden to leave their ghetto, and were even prohibited from erecting monuments on their graves. In 1784 three Jews were murdered in the public streets, and two Jewish children were forcibly baptized. The Roman community therefore found it necessary to confer with the ...
All these synagogues stood at the graves of the amoraim whose names they bore. These examples show that the synagogues bearing the names of Biblical or Talmudic celebrities were often similar in character to the "ḳubbah" (vault; Hebr. ) regularly built over the grave of a Mohammedan ...
They bury their dead at once, not in coffins, but in graves lined with stones. Lamentations are continued for seven days; on the third and seventh days an offering is brought, and it is believed that until this has been done the soul remains in the "valley of death." During the seven...
1765. Moses ha-Yerushalmi (author of "Yede Mosheh," description of sacred graves). 1768. Pereẓ b. Moses (author of "Shebaḥ u-Tehillah le-Ereẓ Yisrael," Amsterdam, 1769). 1777. Israel Politzki, Menahem Mendel of Vitebsk, and Abraham Kalisker (Luncz, "Jerusalem." v. 164-174...
All these synagogues stood at the graves of the amoraim whose names they bore. These examples show that the synagogues bearing the names of Biblical or Talmudic celebrities were often similar in character to the "ḳubbah" (vault; Hebr. ) regularly built over the grave of a Mohammedan ...
an area that had been ceded to the Soviets under the terms of theGerman-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. Captured Jews were either shot at mass graves that they had been forced to dig or deported toconcentration campsorghettos. Some Jews escaped into the countryside, however, and formed partisan grou...