Lwów pogrom (1914)
| Lwów pogrom | |
|---|---|
| Location | Lwów, Austria-Hungary (Austrian Poland, now Ukraine) |
| Date | September 27, 1914 |
| Deaths | 3-49 |
| Injured | up to 47 |
| Perpetrators | Russian soldiers, Cossacks |
The Lwów pogrom (Polish: pogrom lwowski, German: Lemberger Pogrom) was a pogrom in the city of Lwów (since 1945, Lviv, Ukraine) that took place on September 27, 1914, during World War I.
The violence began when Imperial Russian Army troops where shot at in Lwów's Jewish quarter. Accounts of the soldier's reactions vary wildly. In one account, the soldiers stormed three houses believed to have housed the shooter and detained civilians in the vicinity. In another account, the soldiers rioted, shooting and beating civilians as they rampaged through the streets. [1]
The number of casualties vary wildly as well. The number of deaths range from as low as 3 to as high as 49. Jews were particularly affected, with some accounts suggesting that up to half of the casualties were Jewish.[1]
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References
- ^ a b 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.