Kielce pogrom
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The Kielce pogrom was an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence that took place on 4 July 1946 in the city of Kielce, Poland. Polish soldiers, police officers, and civilians attacked a building at 7 Planty
Plaque on ulica Planty 7, Kielce, dedicated by Lech Wałęsa, 1990
Ulica Planty 7, Kielce
Jewish Holocaust survivors awaiting transport to the British Mandate of Palestine
Pogrom
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A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, usually applied to attacks on Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to descr
Kielce pogrom
…Planty Street were also killed elsewhere in the city that day, and at least two Jews were later murdered in transit through Kielce's train station. The pogrom occurred shortly after the end of World War II and is considered the deadliest act of violence against Jews in postwar Poland. It had a profound impact…
The Hep-Hep riots in Würzburg, 1819. On the left, two peasant women are assaulting a Jewish man with a pitchfork and a broom. On the right, a man wearing spectacles, tails and a six-button waistcoat, "perhaps a pharmacist or a schoolteacher," holds a Jewish man by the throat and is about to club him with a truncheon. The houses are being looted. A contemporary engraving by Johann Michael Voltz.
Victims of a pogrom in Kishinev, Bessarabia, 1903
A massacre of Armenians and Assyrians in the city of Adana, Ottoman Empire, April 1909
Iași pogrom in Romania, June 1941