Kiev pogroms (1919)
Series of anti-Jewish attacks in Kiev, Ukraine in 1919 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Kiev pogroms of 1919 refers to a series of anti-Jewish pogroms in various places around Kiev carried out by White Volunteer Army troops. The series of events concern the following districts:
- Skvyra, June 23, 1919: a pogrom in which 45 Jews were massacred, many were severely wounded, and 35 Jewish women were raped by army insurgents.[1]
- Justingrad, August, 1919: where a pogrom made its way through the shtetl with an unspecified number of Jewish men murdered and Jewish women raped.
- Ivankiv district, 18–20 October 1919. In the pogrom carried out by Cossack and Volunteer Army troops, 14 Jews were massacred, 9 wounded, and 15 Jewish women and girls were raped by units under the command of Struk in three days of carnage.[2]
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Kiev pogroms | |
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Part of Pogroms during the Russian Civil War | |
Location | Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire |
Date | 1919 |
Target | Primarily Jews |
Attack type | Decapitation, Burning, Stabbing, Shooting |
Deaths | Unspecified number |
Injured | Unspecified number |
Perpetrators | Ukrainian nationalists, White Armies and Don Cossacks |
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