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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. List of Righteous Among the Nations by country - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Category:High priests of Israel - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "High priests of Israel" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  5. High Priest of Israel - Wikipedia

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    The high priest is the chief of all the priests; he should be anointed and invested with the priestly garments; but if the sacred oil were not obtainable, [36] investiture with the additional four garments is regarded as sufficient. [37] A high priest so invested is known as merubbeh begadim.

  6. Phannias ben Samuel - Wikipedia

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    Phannias ben Samuel (in Hebrew: פנחס בן שמואל Pinhas ben Shmuel) (c. 70 CE) was the last Jewish High Priest, the 83rd since Aaron.He was from the 'tribe' of Eniachin (priestly order Jachin) and did not originate from one of the six families from whom high priests had traditionally been chosen. [1]

  7. 108 Martyrs of World War II - Wikipedia

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    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)

  8. 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 ...

  9. Alcimus - Wikipedia

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    Alcimus was a descendant of the Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses, and possibly himself was in the high-priestly line. [1] Being ambitious for the office of high priest, he traveled to Antioch to secure the appointment from new Seleucid king Demetrius I Soter, who had just overthrown young king Antiochus V Eupator and Lysias.