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Raoul Wallenberg Day
By issuing protective passports and creating safe houses, Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of Jews in Budapest. In 1944, the United States established the War Refugee Board (WRB), an organisation whose task was to save Jews from Nazi persecution.
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Fast of Av
Tisha B'Av is an annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem.
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Night of the murdered Soviet Jewish Poets
The Night of the Murdered Poets was the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow on 12 August 1952. The arrests were first made in September 1948 and June 1949. All defendants were falsely accused of espionage and treason as well as many other crimes.