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This article gives a list of the high priests (Kohen Gadol) of ancient Israel up to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. Because of a lack of historical data, this list is incomplete and there may be gaps. A traditional list of the Jewish High Priests. The High Priests, like all Jewish priests, belonged to the Aaronic line.
Józef Pawłowski, priest (1890–9 January 1942 KL Dachau) Józef Stanek, Pallottine, priest (1916–23 September 1944, murdered in Warsaw) Józef Straszewski, priest (1885–1942 KL Dachau) Karol Herman Stępień, Franciscan friar, priest (1910–1943, killed near Iwieniec, Belarus) Kazimierz Gostyński, priest (1884–1942 KL Dachau)
22,000 Polish killed, most of them officers 21,857 confirmed by Soviet documents, about 440 of the prospective victims escaped the shootings. After intense research, today most of the victims are known name by name. Bloody Wednesday of Olkusz: 31 July 1940 Olkusz Nazi Germany: 20 Polish civilians NKVD prisoner massacres in Poland: June ...
Country of origin Awards Notes Poland 7,177: The largest contingent. [2] It includes a wide variety of both individuals of different occupations and organized activists, including Irena Sendler (Polish social worker who served in Polish Underground and Żegota resistance organization in Warsaw, saving 2,500 Jewish children); Jan Karski (who reported on the situation of Jews in occupied Poland ...
The high priests before the Exile were apparently appointed for life; [75] in fact, from Aaron to the exile fewer high priests served than in the 60 years preceding the fall of the Second Temple. Josephus enumerates only 52 high priests under the Second Temple, omitting the second appointments of Hyrcanus II, Hananeel, and Joazar.
Leszek the White, High Duke of Poland: Assassinated at the Gąsawa massacre: 8 February 1296: Przemysł II, king of Poland: 16 December 1922: Gabriel Narutowicz, President of Poland [5] Eligiusz Niewiadomski: Killed five days after his inauguration while attending the opening of an art exhibit at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw. 7 June 1927
Forty-four years later in 1991, Leon's parents, Bolesław Śliwiński, who died in 1949, and Leonia Śliwińska née Berendt, who died in 1978, were bestowed titles of the Righteous in Israel. [114] [failed verification] Leon Śliwiński received his title on 23 May 1993 in Warsaw. In 1996 David invited Leon to Israel. They were elated to see ...
Before World War II, Poland's Jewish community had numbered about 3,460,000 – about 9.7 percent of the country's total population. [5] Following the invasion of Poland, Germany's Nazi regime sent millions of deportees from every European country to the concentration and forced-labor camps set up in the General Government territory of occupied Poland and across the Polish areas annexed by ...