Definition of pogrom
: an organized massacre of helpless people;
specifically
: such a massacre of Jews
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Ornstein’s book tells the story of an Auschwitz survivor; Skoy is the daughter of a man who fled a brutal life marred by beatings and burnings during the Russian pogroms.
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Within hours, waves of revenge attacks broke out, with the military and Buddhist mobs marauding through Rohingya villages in bloody pogroms, killing thousands, raping women and girls, and burning houses and whole villages.
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His father, born in Minsk, was brought to America as a child to escape pogroms.
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The paper, Página 12, had used a 1950 photograph of anti-communist Polish fighters alongside an article about the pogrom in the town of Jedwabne where hundreds of Jews were killed by their Polish neighbours during World War II.
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In Europe, where over 50 million died, a search for scapegoats led to widespread pogroms against Jews.
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Bacow is the son of immigrant parents, his father a refugee from the pogroms of Eastern Europe and his mother a survivor of Auschwitz.
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Within hours, waves of revenge attacks broke out, with the military and Buddhist mobs marauding through Rohingya villages in bloody pogroms, killing thousands, raping women and girls, and burning houses and whole villages.
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Those who still persist in denying the extent of clear wrongdoing will suffer the tragicomic fate of Watergate-era Representative Charles Sandman (an authentic World War II hero) and Rabbi Baruch Korff (who as a child fled Ukrainian pogroms).
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Origin and Etymology of pogrom
Yiddish, from Russ, literally, devastation
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First Known Use of pogrom
1915
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Definition of pogrom for English Language Learners
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: the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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