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 * In 4998 (1237 CE), Rabbi Abraham Maimuni died.
 * In 5554 (1793 CE), during the French Revolution, Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France prohibited milah and the wearing of beards. It also ordered the burning of books written in Hebrew.
 * In 5572 (1811 CE), Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh died.
 * In 5679 (1918 CE), Polish forces attacked the Jews of Lviv.
 * In 5702 (1941 CE), the Chełmno extermination camp in Poland opened. On the same day, 1,500 "old and weak" Jews from the Riga Ghetto were murdered by the S.S. in a forest near Biķernieki.