pogrom

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"We thought we were safe. Our grandparents and great grandparents -- Holocaust survivors -- many of them came to here to escape hate and to escape bloodshed, pogrom, persecution," he said.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

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 we used to imagine from our grandfathers, grandmothers in the pogrom in Europe and other places," Israeli Major General Itai Veruv said.

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

As for the emigration movement, which had begun during the storm and stress of the first pogrom year, this passive but only effective protest against the new Egyptian oppression proceeded at a slow pace.

From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by Friedlaender, I.