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Events relating to judaism
Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, saves thousands of Jews from extermination
By the end of the war the total number of Jews killed by the Nazis is around 6 million
[1939-1945] - in addition to 6 million Jews, the Nazi death camps have killed some 400,000 Gypsies and 100,000 'useless defectives'
An Arab boy, herding goats in the Qumran desert, finds the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Baal teshuva movement begins in the USA, with young Jews from secular families choosing to define themselves by a return to strict Orthodox Judaism
Pride in Judaism, after Israel's striking success in the Six Day War, contributes to the rapid growth of the Baal teshuva movement
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