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This Week in Jewish History:

APRIL 11: Israel Commences Trial of Nazi Criminal Adolf Eichmann (1962)
APRIL 12: Knesset Passes Law Establishing Holocaust Remembrance Day (1951)
APRIL 13: Pope John Paul II Becomes First Sitting Pontiff to Visit Synagogue (1986)
APRIL 14: President Bush Sets U.S. Position on Peace in Letter to PM Ariel Sharon (2004)
APRIL 15: British Forces Liberate Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp (1945)
APRIL 16: Nazi War Criminal Rudolf Hoess Executed Following Trial Conviction (1947)
APRIL 17: Jewish Baseball Player Art Shamsky Makes MLB Debut (1965)

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