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Pogrom
A pogrom is a form of violent riot, a mob attack directed against a minority group, and characterized by killings and destruction of their homes and properties, businesses, and religious centres...
Timeline of Events
1740
7.11.1740
Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
1938
11.9.1938
Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
1941
6.27.1941
Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
1955
9.6.1955
Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.