Pogrom

Pogrom (from Russian:погром (pogrom); from "громить" IPA: [grʌˈmitʲ]- to wreak havoc, to demolish violently) is a form of riot attacking people and property. The target of the attack is a group of people because of their ethnic identity or religion, usually Jews. In a pogrom, the local authorities such as the police do not arrest the rioters and do not come to the aid of the victims.^[1]

In a pogrom, the target people's homes, businesses, and places of worship are destroyed. People of the target group are physically attacked and some are murdered.

Pogrom Media

Pluenderung der Judengasse 1614
Victims of a pogrom in Kishinev, Bessarabia, 1903
Map of pogroms in Ukraine between 1918 and 1920 per casualties
A massacre of Armenians and Assyrians in the city of Adana, Ottoman Empire, April 1909
Iași pogrom in Romania, June 1941
Jewish woman chased by men and youth armed with clubs during the Lviv pogroms, July 1941
The 1921 Tulsa race massacre, which destroyed the wealthiest black community in the United States, has been described as a pogrom.

Related pages

Babi Yar
Kristallnacht

References

↑ Klier, John (2010). "Pogroms". The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. “The common usage of the term pogrom to describe any attack against Jews throughout history disguises the great variation in the scale, nature, motivation, and intent of such violence at different times.”

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[YIVO-1] Klier, John (2010). "Pogroms". The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. “The common usage of the term pogrom to describe any attack against Jews throughout history disguises the great variation in the scale, nature, motivation, and intent of such violence at different times.”

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