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pogrom

[puh-gruhm, -grom, poh-] / pəˈgrʌm, -ˈgrɒm, poʊ- /


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Several participants in the commemoration were draped in Israeli and EU flags, as they paid their respects at a monument erected in 2001 to mark the site of the pogrom.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Shlomo Mansour was born in Baghdad and as a child survived the Farhud pogrom against the Iraqi capital's Jewish community in 1941.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025

"It's something that we used to imagine from our grandfathers, grandmothers in the pogrom in Europe and other places."

From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023

She recalled hearing glass shattering on Kristallnacht, the pogrom in November 1938 that marked a turning point in Hitler’s persecution of Jews in Europe.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023

Similar acts occurred in several other places, until the Russian Government stopped this pogrom movement in order to prevent the Polish nationalism from getting stronger.

From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various


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