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Significant pogroms in the Russian Empire included the Odessa pogroms, Warsaw pogrom (1881), Kishinev pogrom (1903), Kiev Pogrom (1905), and Białystok pogrom (1906), and, after the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Lwów pogrom (1918) and Kiev Pogroms (1919). The most significant pogrom in [[Nazi Party|Nazi Germany]] was the ''[[Kristallnacht]]'' ("Night of Broken Glass") of 1938 in which at least an initial 91 Jews were killed by Nazi soldiers, a further 30,000 were arrested and subsequently incarcerated in [[Concentration Camp|concentration camps]] (many of which eventually died there), more than 1,000 synagogues burned, and over 7,000 Jewish businesses [[Looting|looted]], destroyed or damaged. ''Kristallnacht'' was considered the official beginning of [[the Holocaust]]. | Significant pogroms in the Russian Empire included the Odessa pogroms, Warsaw pogrom (1881), Kishinev pogrom (1903), Kiev Pogrom (1905), and Białystok pogrom (1906), and, after the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Lwów pogrom (1918) and Kiev Pogroms (1919). The most significant pogrom in [[Nazi Party|Nazi Germany]] was the ''[[Kristallnacht]]'' ("Night of Broken Glass") of 1938 in which at least an initial 91 Jews were killed by Nazi soldiers, a further 30,000 were arrested and subsequently incarcerated in [[Concentration Camp|concentration camps]] (many of which eventually died there), more than 1,000 synagogues burned, and over 7,000 Jewish businesses [[Looting|looted]], destroyed or damaged. ''Kristallnacht'' was considered the official beginning of [[the Holocaust]]. | ||
Such purges have not been limited to Central Europe, however: notorious pogroms of [[World War II]] included the 1941 | Such purges have not been limited to Central Europe, however: notorious pogroms of [[World War II]] included the 1941 Farhud in Iraq, the July 1941 Iaşi pogrom in Romania – in which over 13,200 Jews were killed – as well as the Jedwabne pogrom in Poland. Post World War II pogroms included the 1945 Tripoli pogrom, the 1946 Kielce pogrom and the 1947 Aleppo pogrom. | ||
Pogroms against non-Jews include the 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom against Igbos in southern Nigeria, the 1955 Istanbul Pogrom against Greeks, the 1920 Shusha pogrom, the 1983 pogrom against Tamils in Sri Lanka (commonly known as "[[Black July]]"), the 1988 Sumgait pogrom, the Kirovabad pogrom, in which ethnic Armenians were targeted, the ''[[Gukurahundi]]'' in Zimbabwe from 1983 to 1987 that targeted the Ndebele tribe, and the 2008 anti-Immigrant pogrom in South Africa in which African immigrants were targeted. | Pogroms against non-Jews include the 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom against Igbos in southern Nigeria, the 1955 Istanbul Pogrom against Greeks, the 1920 Shusha pogrom, the 1983 pogrom against Tamils in Sri Lanka (commonly known as "[[Black July]]"), the 1988 Sumgait pogrom, the Kirovabad pogrom, in which ethnic Armenians were targeted, the ''[[Gukurahundi]]'' in Zimbabwe from 1983 to 1987 that targeted the Ndebele tribe, and the 2008 anti-Immigrant pogrom in South Africa in which African immigrants were targeted. | ||