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  2. List of high priests of Israel - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Massacre of Lwów professors - Wikipedia

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    The city was one of the most important cultural centers of interwar Poland, housing five tertiary educational facilities, including Lwów University and Lwów Polytechnic. It was the home for many Polish and Polish Jewish intellectuals, political and cultural activists, scientists and members of Poland's interwar intelligentsia. [1]

  4. Persecutions of the Catholic Church and Pius XII - Wikipedia

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    After 1945, Poland was resurrected, but the Polish government continued the attacks against the Catholic Church. All religious were forced to leave hospitals and educational institutions and their properties were confiscated. Within seven years, fifty-four religious were killed. One hundred and seventy priests were deported to gulags. [81]

  5. High Priest of Israel - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland - Wikipedia

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    Public execution of Polish priests and civilians in Bydgoszcz's Old Market Square on 9 September 1939. During the German occupation of Poland (1939–1945), the Nazis brutally suppressed the Catholic Church in Poland, most severely in German-occupied areas of Poland. Thousands of churches and monasteries were systematically closed, seized or ...

  7. List of massacres in Poland - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Cities of Refuge - Wikipedia

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    Thus, these rabbinical authorities argued that if the perpetrator had died before reaching a city of refuge, their body still had to be taken there, and, if they had died before the high priest had, then their body had to be buried at the city of refuge until the high priest expired; [30] even if the perpetrator lived beyond the death of the ...

  9. Massacres in Piaśnica - Wikipedia

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    Andrzej Gąsiorowski states that the first person to be killed was the priest, Father Ignacy Błażejewski, on 24 October. [5] Prof. Barbara Bojarska gives the date as 29 October. Former prisoners and witnesses likewise give various dates at the end of October, and even the first few days of November. [5]