In 1492, the Jews were expelled from Spain.

World War 1 began on the 9th of Av.

Himler presented his plan to the Nazi Party on the "Final Solution" to the Jewish problem, July 31, 1940 - Tisha B'Av

One year later to the day, Himler's "Plan" was formerly implemented.

The beginning of Nazi deportations of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942

(Is it coincidence that these events took place on the same date?)

Just what is Tisha b'Av?

The following is an excerpt from
Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin’s classic
“To Be a Jew”   (Buy the book from Amazon, Click here for info)

"The saddest and most tragic day in the year is the fast of the ninth of Av.  It is a day of fasting and mourning which commemorates the destruction of the First Temple..." [and the Second temple and the expulsion of 1492 in particular]

"…Though the Jewish State was reestablished in 1948, and Jerusalem was reunited in 1967 under Jewish sovereignty for the first time since 70 C.E., the significance of Tisha b'Av has nevertheless been reaffirmed by contemporary thinkers and scholars.

In the first place, the Temple itself - the destruction of which is the basic reason for the mourning of Tisha b'Av - is still not restored. The Temple Mount in fact was appropriated by Islamic leaders, who in the year 691 C.E. built on Judaism's holiest site a major Islamic shrine. This only highlights the Temple's loss to the faith of Israel.

Secondly, there is no more appropriate occasion in the year to remember, mourn and grieve over all those occasions in Israelīs history which were steeped in sorrow and suffering, in death and torture, in cruelty and oppression, all of which reached their climax in the European holocaust (1940-1945) when over a third of all the Jewish people, more than six million men, women, and children, were systematically and barbarically put to death after the most unbelievable suffering.

Tish b'Av is a day of total fasting. As on Yom Kippur, eating or drinking anything from before sundown on the eighth of Av till nightfall on the following day is forbidden.

…In the synagogue following the evening services, the Book of Lamentations (Megillat Aichah), is read in the mournful chant traditionally associated with it. "

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