In a new series for every issue during 2016, we look back at events that took place in the same week over the JC’s 175-year history.
January 5, 1900:
British Jews flocked to enlist to fight in the second Boer War in South Africa. But, as the JC reported, such were the numbers of volunteers, some would-be Jewish soldiers “had to undergo the disappointment” of being turned away.
January 5 1945:
Soviet investigators found that 133,000 Jews killed were killed by the Nazis in the city of Lvov during the Second World War. Moscow “indicted the Hitler government, and especially Himmler” for the atrocity.
January 6 2006:
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke, leaving Ehud Olmert to take over as the country’s leader. The JC reported that “Israeli politics were “facing meltdown” as Mr Sharon underwent emergency surgery. He never recovered and died in 2014 having spent over eight years in a coma.