Word: pogrom
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Meanwhile, Henryk Blasczyk, the boy who started the pogrom, admitted that his story was a lie. He had stayed for two days in a Kielce house, where Jew-hating agitators had coached him in the old anti-Semitic falsehood...
Meeting in the Center. Along the Black Sea flank of the funnel raced General Fedor Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. A huge breach opened in the Nazi lines. A column sickled westward into the funnel's center, joined troops of Malinovsky's army. Kishinev, pogrom-haunted seat of Bessarabia, was stormed. Below the city the Russians closed a noose around 60,000 Germans. Then the Third Ukrainian sped down the coast. At week's end it stood deep within the sprawling, muddy Danube Delta, held the old Turkish fortress town of Ismail, swept into Galati, eastern...
...Rumania's five-day Jewish pogrom last January was featured by "kosher butchery," a monstrous parody of the Jewish ritual for killing animals by throat-slitting. "All Jewish men from 18 to 50 years of age have been drafted for forced labor. Their daily food ration is one-eighth of that provided for a Rumanian soldier...
Like many people who fool easily, Thyssen was capable of huge indignation when he found he had been fooled. He protested the Blood Purge of 1934, the persecution of Catholic and Protestant clergymen, the Jewish pogrom of 1938. The Nazis got tired of his protests. Thyssen was wise enough to leave Austria for Switzerland when Germany invaded Poland. He protested the invasion, the "illegal" confiscation of his property in Germany, the fact that no cause had been assigned for the death of his sister's son-in-law in the concentration camp of Dachau. He finally wrote a letter...
Although Mare and his father came to the United States after the pogrom, Mrs. Spiegel remained in Warsaw to settle their financial affairs. She was caught in the war, and Marc believes that being a doctor, she was pressed into service during the six day siege of the Polish capital...