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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.
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 ...
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)
The Nazi foreign ministry claimed 1,500 Ukrainians were killed while the SS and Nazi military intelligence claimed 4,000. [1] Lviv (Lwów in pre-war Poland, Executions in Lviv (June 1941)): the massacres in this city began immediately after the German attack, on June 22, and continued until June 28. The NKVD executed several thousand inmates in ...
The religious responsibilities of the Sadducees included the maintenance of the Temple in Jerusalem. Their high social status was reinforced by their priestly responsibilities, as mandated in the Torah. The priests were responsible for performing sacrifices at the Temple, the primary method of worship in ancient Israel.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2011) This is a list of massacres that have occurred in Israel after the 1948 Palestine War. For massacres that have occurred in Roman Judea prior to the establishment of the Roman province of Syria Palæstina, see List of ...
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 ...
Nob was a priestly town in ancient Israel in the vicinity of Jerusalem. The town is mostly known as the site of a massacre described in the Bible where the town's Hebrew priests are massacred by Doeg the Edomite who acted on orders from King Saul. [1]