Tag: Pogrom
Kibbutz Be’eri pogrom: Jews under fire
As word came that murderous hordes were approaching, the Jews attempted to flee. Those who could not, barricaded themselves indoors and prayed for a miracle.”
This moving narrative describes not the shocking events of Oct....
Knesset advances bill to commemorate Iraq’s Farhud pogrom
Israeli lawmakers on Monday advanced a government proposal to designate June 1 as a day to commemorate the Farhud, the 1941 pogrom in Iraq coordinated by Palestinian leader Haj Amin al-Hussein.
The Commemoration Day for the...
Athens Democracy Forum highlights rise in anti-Semitism as it marks Babi Yar massacre
A discussion was held on Thursday at the Athens Democracy Forum marking exactly 80 years since the Nazi massacre of Ukrainian Jews at Babi Yar on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv (Kiev). In...
80 years since Babi Yar: Making sure the Holocaust is not forgotten
When my father was 6 months old, my grandparents put him in a burlap sack and smuggled him out of Ukraine as they fled the pogroms of 1921. Their destination was Poland, which they...