Pogroms

On this day: Russian Tsarist forces start Bialystok Pogrom, killing at least 70 Jews

Bialystok, an industrial town in modern-day Poland, had a major Jewish population that was terrorized by local antisemitic Russian military members and police officers.

Nurses stand with victims of the Bialystok pogrom in June 1906.
Five Jewish children were shot with pellet guns at Shawnee Park in Skokie, Illinois on Oct. 7, 2025.

Advocates decry ‘pogrom on the playground’ after Jewish children targeted in Chicago on Oct. 7

Dagestani activist Abakar Abakarov

Abakar Abakarov, Dagestani Islamist linked to 2023 airport pogrom, found dead in Turkey

 Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters demonstrate and light flares in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 7, 2024, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.

Compensation paid out to victims of Amsterdam riots, law firm announces


Locals commemorate pogrom against Greeks and Jews in Turkey in 1955

The attacks didn’t only target Greeks but also other minorities, including Jews and Armenians.

THE DESTRUCTION of this Munich synagogue during the Kristallnacht pogroms of 1938 haunts its Jewish community till this day.

‘Where are memorials to remember perpetrators of the Holocaust?’

Charlotte Knobloch, the former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and current head of the Munich Jewish community, has long opposed the stumbling block memorials.

Parts of the Holocaust memorial project "Stolpersteine" (stumbling blocks) are pictured in Berlin, Germany, August 18, 2017.

The Israeli education system: Kishinev pogroms in, Farhud out

Why is a pogrom that happened much closer to us barely known?

THE REMAINS of a synagogue are seen in the center of Baghdad, Iraq in April 2018

Argentina newspaper first target of controversial Polish Holocaust law

The nationalist Polish League Against Defamation (RDI) group filed a lawsuit on Friday against the Argentinian daily newspaper Pagina 12.

PHOTOGRAPH OF Auschwitz-Birkenau taken in February 2017.

It appears to be a bad law

The Jerusalem Post

The Kielce Pogrom of 1946

22 Jews had been shot dead in what was quickly deemed a 'misunderstanding.'

The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw

Honoring of antisemites a ‘problem,’ says Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine

Nationalists accused of complicity in the murder of Ukrainian Jews have received honors from state authorities for their fight against Russia.

Symon Petliura was head of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, 35,000 to 50,000 Jews were killed in a series of pogroms between 1918 and 1921.

Ukraine honors nationalist leader blamed for Jewish pogroms

During Symon Petliura’s time as head of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, 35,000 to 50,000 Jews were killed in a series of pogroms between 1918 and 1921.

Symon Petliura was head of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, 35,000 to 50,000 Jews were killed in a series of pogroms between 1918 and 1921.