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[[File:~~9ff2f72b~~-~~2a06-4b23-919e-7afc5ec9671c.jpg.pagespeed.ce.43wdTOrjq~~-.jpg|thumb|300px|right|~~A group of people gathered at a memorial for victims of the 1946 Kielce pogrom~~ in ~~Kielce, Poland~~.]]

[[File:Pogrom de Chisinau - 1903 - 1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Jewish pogroms in Kishinev - 1903.]]

A '''pogrom''' is a violent massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews. The term, a Yiddish variation on a Russian word meaning "thunder", originally entered the English language to describe 19th and 20th-century massacres of Jews perpetrated by Tsar [[Nicholas II]] in the Russian Empire; similar attacks against Jews at other times and places also became retrospectively known as pogroms. The word is now also sometimes used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish ethnic or religious groups.

A '''pogrom''' is a violent massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews. The term, a Yiddish variation on a Russian word meaning "thunder", originally entered the English language to describe 19th and 20th-century massacres of Jews perpetrated by Tsar [[Nicholas II]] in the Russian Empire; similar attacks against Jews at other times and places also became retrospectively known as pogroms. The word is now also sometimes used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish ethnic or religious groups. Pogroms are commonly associated with [[genocide]], and pogroms perpetrated against Jews were often accompanied by some form of [[Blood Libel|blood libel]]. The [[Rhineland Massacres]] in 1096 are a good example of an early pogrom.

Pogroms are commonly associated with [[genocide]].

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]].

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[[Category:Villainous Event]]

[[Category:Xenophobes]]

[[Category:Mass ~~murder~~]]

[[Category:Mass Murderers]]

[[Category:Oppressors]]

[[Category:~~Terrorism~~]]

[[Category:Terrorists]]

[[Category:Genocidal]]

[[Category:Anti-Semitic]]

[[Category:Anti-Religious]]

[[Category:Destroyer of Innocence]]

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-[[File:9ff2f72b-2a06-4b23-919e-7afc5ec9671c.jpg.pagespeed.ce.43wdTOrjq-.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A group of people gathered at a memorial for victims of the 1946 Kielce pogrom in Kielce, Poland.]]
+[[File:Pogrom de Chisinau - 1903 - 1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Jewish pogroms in Kishinev - 1903.]]
-A '''pogrom''' is a violent massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews. The term, a Yiddish variation on a Russian word meaning "thunder", originally entered the English language to describe 19th and 20th-century massacres of Jews perpetrated by Tsar [[Nicholas II]] in the Russian Empire; similar attacks against Jews at other times and places also became retrospectively known as pogroms. The word is now also sometimes used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish ethnic or religious groups.
+A '''pogrom''' is a violent massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews. The term, a Yiddish variation on a Russian word meaning "thunder", originally entered the English language to describe 19th and 20th-century massacres of Jews perpetrated by Tsar [[Nicholas II]] in the Russian Empire; similar attacks against Jews at other times and places also became retrospectively known as pogroms. The word is now also sometimes used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish ethnic or religious groups. Pogroms are commonly associated with [[genocide]], and pogroms perpetrated against Jews were often accompanied by some form of [[Blood Libel|blood libel]]. The [[Rhineland Massacres]] in 1096 are a good example of an early pogrom.
-Pogroms are commonly associated with [[genocide]].
 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]].
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 [[Category:Villainous Event]]
 [[Category:Xenophobes]]
-[[Category:Mass murder]]
+[[Category:Mass Murderers]]
 [[Category:Oppressors]]
-[[Category:Terrorism]]
+[[Category:Terrorists]]
 [[Category:Genocidal]]
+[[Category:Anti-Semitic]]
+[[Category:Anti-Religious]]
+[[Category:Destroyer of Innocence]]