Pogrom facts for kids
![Hep-hep riots](/images/thumb/f/fd/Hep-hep_riots.jpg/300px-Hep-hep_riots.jpg)
![TulsaRaceRiot-1921](/images/thumb/c/cb/TulsaRaceRiot-1921.png/300px-TulsaRaceRiot-1921.png)
Pogrom (from Russian:погром (pogrom); from "громить" IPA:- to wreak havoc, to demolish violently) is a form of riot because of antisemitism. This riot is directed against a group of people. These groups may be certain ethnic groups, they may belong to a certain religion, or they may have other marks of distinction. In a pogrom their homes, businesses, and places of worship are destroyed.
Images for kids
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The Hep-Hep riots in Würzburg, 1819. On the left, two peasant women are assaulting a Jewish man with pitchfork and broom. On the right, a man wearing spectacles, tails and a six-button waistcoat, "perhaps a pharmacist or a schoolteacher," holds a Jewish man by the throat and is about to club him with a truncheon. The houses are being looted. A contemporary engraving by Johann Michael Voltz.
See also
In Spanish: Pogromo para niños