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The Elisavetgrad pogrom spawned a spate of copycat violence in the region, as news of the disorders spread. A serious pogrom occurred in Kiev, on 26 April (7 May); it lasted for three days and spread to villages in Kiev and surrounding provinces. The violence continued sporadically until winter. A pogrom erupted in Warsaw on Christmas Day, 1881 ...
At a pogrom in Kerch in Crimea on 31 July 1905, the mayor ordered the police to fire at the self-defence group, and two fighters were killed (one of them, P. Kirilenko, was a Ukrainian who joined the Jewish defence group). The pogrom was conducted by the port workers apparently brought in for the purpose.
pogrom, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
Jan 8, 2018 · In the years that followed, the Kielce pogrom—like so many atrocities committed or abetted by Poles during the war—became taboo. There were no memorials. When Bogdan Bialek, a Catholic Pole ...
Jul 24, 2020 · mid-14c., persecucioun, "oppression for the holding of a belief or opinion," from Old French persecucion "persecution, damage, affliction, suffering" (12c.) and directly from Latin persecutionem (nominative persecutio), noun of action from past-participle stem of persequi "to fol
Dec 16, 2009 · Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s), was a prolonged series of violent attacks on Jewish people, homes, businesses and synagogues in 1938 Germany.
The meaning of POGROM is an organized massacre of helpless people; specifically : such a massacre of Jews. ... 1915, in the meaning defined above. Time Traveler.
