Lwów pogrom (1914)

Lwów pogrom
Location	Lviv, Russian Empire
Date	September 27, 1914
Deaths	38-49
Non-fatal injuries	over 443
Perpetrators	Cossacks

The Lwów pogrom (Polish: pogrom lwowski, German: Lemberg pogrom) was a pogrom of the Jewish population of the city of Lwów (since 1945, Lviv, Ukraine) that took place on September 27, 1914 during the World War I. Following a reported robbery, or shots, involving Russian military in the Lviv's Jewish neighbourhood, Russian Cossacks assaulted nearby Jewish civilians, resulting in about 40 civilian casualties and a number of injuries. In the aftermath, no Cossacks were persecuted, but several Jews were arrested, through released shortly afterward. ^[1]

References

↑ Christopher Mick (2016). Lemberg, Lwow, and Lviv 1914-1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City. Purdue University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-55753-671-6.

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[Mick2016-1] Christopher Mick (2016). Lemberg, Lwow, and Lviv 1914-1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City. Purdue University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-55753-671-6.