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Condoned by St Ambrose, the Shul located on the Euphrates in Callinicum was looted and burned by Church officials. (388). Louis VII ascends the thrown in France upon the death of King Louis the VI. Louis VII would launch a second crusade, expel all Jews from France and played host to the first French blood libel (1137). Jews in Turkey, having suffered the devastating effects of fires that ravished the Turkish countryside, are sent $1,000 by the Jewish community in Peoria Illinois (a sizeable sum in those days) (1911). Germany declares war on Russia (Jews served valiantly in this war and considered themselves citizens of the home countries, especially German Jews). Hungary limited the number of Jews in commerce, law, medicine, and banking. An estimated 5,000 Jews converted to Christianity during the weeks before the law went into effect to avoid the restriction. In time, they would see no only the error of their ways but also that while it may have saved them then, it did not save them a little more than 20 years later as they were still considered by the Nazi’s to be Jewish) (1919). Birthdate of Meir Kahane (1932). The German Nazi’s begin the roundup of all Jews in Cracow (1940). Heydrich informed Himmler, “that in the future there will be no more Jews in the annexed Eastern Territories." Every day in every village and town, Jews would be hunted down, molested, tortured, and executed”. The final solution was had already begun (1941). 1,000 Jews from city of Kishinev were murdered (1941). The Bialystok Ghetto is established (1941). Rabbi Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz (who, it should be noted, was the last leader of the Radomsk dynasty, and his entire family are murdered in Warsaw. (1942). Ann Frank writes the last entry she will every write in her diary (1944). Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir accepted a formula for peace talks in the Middle East (yeah….because all those other peace “formula’s worked out so well we thought we would try again. Wow) (1991)