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Friday
12 Shvat 5779
18 January 2019
י"ב שבט ה-תשע"ט
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Daf Yomi:
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| 12 Shvat in History [40] |
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Nazis provoked the first anti-Jewish riots in Amsterdam, 1941. The Jews successfully fought off their attackers. Two years later, 1943, to the day (12 Shvat), Jews in the Warsaw ghetto put up their fist resistance to the Nazi effort at liquidation. We years later, to the day, the Russian army liberated 2819 survivors of Auschwitz.
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