Zikkaron -September

1	1592	Severe persecutions begin at Lvov, Poland when Archbishop Salikowsky orders the erection of a church there.	2	1941	SS murders 1,500 Jews of Zaremby Kasztelanskie, Bialystok, Poland, outside the town.
3	1189	Jewish notables wishing to pay respects and allegiance to Richard the First during his coronation are kept out and mistreated. A riotous mob attacks the Jewish quarter burning homes and murdering 30.	4	1553	On Rosh Hashannah, the Inquisition in Italy confiscates all Jewish books and burns them.
5	1939	14 Jews are burned alive at the stake in Chmielnik, Stopnica, Poland.	6	1986	Two gunmen enter synagogue Neve Shalom in Istanbul, Turkiye, on Shabbat, shoot 21 worshippers, then pour gasoline and burn the bodies.
7	1939	Regular German troops (Wehrmacht) enter the Polish village of Zgierz, murder 6 Jews then burns one alive.	8	1943	A convoy with 3,442 Jews leaves Moravska Ostrava, Moravia, Czechoslavakia for Auschwitz where they are killed on arrival.
9	1899	French captain, Alfred Dreyfus is tried the second time.	10	1349	Jews surviving the earlier massacre of the Jewish community at Constance, Germany, are burned at the stake.
11	1942	Rosh Hashannah: 1,600 Jews from Grodek, Belorus are murdered by Nazis.	12	1942	5,000 Jews of Stanislavov, Poland are collected to go to Belzec extermination camp. Many are shot on the spot.
13	1944	279 Jews, including Anne Frank and her family, are sent to Bergen-Belsen camp.	14	1928	Petrovo Selo, the Banat, Yugoslavia: ritual murder accusations are started with the intent of killing all the Jewish inhabitants. Troops are stationed to protect Jews.
15	1935	The Nazi German Nuremburg Laws against Jews are published, revoking all civil rights.	16	1942	6,000 Jews of the Jedrzejov ghetto, Kielce, Poland, are sent to Treblinka extermination camp.
17	1394	On Yom Kippur -Day of Atonement- Charles VI of France issues edict for the expulsion of all Jews from French lands.	18	1349	330 Jews of a number of towns, being protected by Duke Albrecht of Austria at Kyburg fortress, are burnt at the stake under pressure from Christian subjects.
19	1941	Nazis murder all remaining Jews of Shitomir, Ukraine, possibly numbering 15,000.	20	1540	The Inquisition at Lisboa, Portugal arranges the its first auto-da-fe of Conversos (or forcibly baptized Jews).
21	1348	All except a few who escape, the Jews of Zurich, Switzerland are burnt at the stake after being accused of well poisoning and ritual murder (an accusation more typically made at Passover rather than Yom Kippur). Law is passed that day barring all Jews from Zurich.	22	1928	Massena, New York: when a 4 year old child disappears, the Ku Klux Klan says Jews have taken the child to provide blood for Yom Kippur services! Some Jews including the rabbi is questioned by police, neighbors harrass Jewish residents, and the synagogue's doors are blocked. The child is found the next day after being lost.
23	1942	SS burns 1,800 Jews in their homes in Motel, Polesie, Belorus.	24	1752	12 Conversos are accused of Judaizing. 3 are burnt at the stake, the others "repent" and are imprisoned.
25	1942	All the Jews of Ivanovo, Poland (now Belorus) are murdered.	26	1941	3,000 Jews of Orsha, Belorus are shot in the local Jewish cemetery.
27	1942	30 Jewish men and women are use to "clear" minefields in Galibicy, USSR. All eventually are shredded by the bombs they are driven through..	28	1942	Jews hiding in the ghetto of Kossov, Ukraine are told by Nazis they will not be harmed if they come out, and be allowed to remain in the ghetto. All are murdered.
29	1941	After being ordered to register with German occupation authoriities, the Jews of Kiev, Ukraine are led into the ravine of Babi Yar. SS claims to have machine-gunned 33,771 this and the following day.	30	1337	The German Knight Hartmann and a small army murder Jewish inhabitants in Bavaria, burn the bodies, loot the homes, and divvy the booty, after an accusation of host desecration.

¹ HEP -The initials of "Hierosolyma est perdita" or, Jerusalem is lost! in Latin. During the Crusades, Jews were seen as even worse infidels than Muslims and were murdered in droves by crusaders on their way to Palestine. Jews were blamed for the capture of the Holy Sepulchre by the Muslims; therefore, the saying, "HEP!" is a battle-cry of Jew haters (even in the 1800s).

² Auto-de-fé -"act of faith" involving the torture, and murder (by burning) of enemies of the Christian church, featuring hymns, and general attractions.

³ Pogrom -an organized and usually officially instigated massacre (of Jews in Eastern Europe).

⁴ Black Death (Persecutions) -During the Black Death or Plague, i.e., Bubonic Plague, Christians accused Jews of poisoning, curses, witchcraft, etc., because generally Jews were not as ravaged by the plague as the Christians were. This was largely due to Jewish laws concerning cleanliness, and the general filthiness of non-Jews of the time period. According to Christians, the "evil" Jews had to be involved.

⁵ Host Desecration -The Host, a communion wafer that "became Christ" during communion (transubstantiation), it was claimed, was sometimes "kidnapped" and mistreated by Jews. Therefore, Christ was being attacked, etc., by Jews.

⁶ Mufti -an expounder of Islamic law.

⁷ Blood Libel -a libel spread against Jews that accused them of using the blood of Christian children for a Passover sacrifice.

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