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A few years before the Holocaust, the Jewish population of the Soviet Union (excluding Western Ukraine and the Baltic states that were not part of the Soviet Union then) stood at over 5 million, most of whom were Ashkenazic as opposed to Sephardic, with some Karaite minorities. It is estimated that more than half died directly as a result of ...
The use of the term "pogrom" became common in the English language after a large-scale wave of anti-Jewish riots swept through south-western Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine and Poland) from 1881 to 1882; when more than 200 anti-Jewish events occurred in the Russian Empire, the most notable of them were pogroms which occurred in Kiev ...
Soviet civilians were shot and burned alive by the German Army. [6] [7] Krasukha massacre 27 November 1943 Krasukha , Pskov Oblast: 280 Soviet civilians were burned alive by the German Army. [8] Novocherkassk massacre: 2 June 1962 Novocherkassk: 26 (officially) Soviet massacre of rallying unarmed civilians.
Soviet Jewish stepchild: the Holocaust in the Soviet mindset, 1941-1964. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. ISBN 978-3639149807. Redlich, Shimon (1995). War, Holocaust, and Stalinism: A Documented Study of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR. Luxembourg: Harwood Academic. ISBN 9783718657391. Weiss-Wendt, Anton (2021).
Demographic data for Russian Empire, Soviet Union and Post-Soviet states Jews Year Jewish population (including Mountain Jews) Notes 1914 More than 5,250,000 Russian Empire 1926 [135] 2,672,499 First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union. A result of border change (secession of Poland and union of Bessarabia with Romania), emigration and ...
Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945, Volume 3. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9781479819454. OCLC 1313798701. Levin, Nora. The Jews in the Soviet Union since 1917 (2 vol, NYU Press, 1988) online. Levy, Richard S., ed. Antisemitism: A historical encyclopedia of prejudice and persecution ...
Zmievskaya Balka Memorial Complex. Zmievskaya Balka (Russian: Змиёвская балка, IPA: [zmʲɪˈjɵfskəjə ˈbaɫkə]), Zmiyovskaya Balka is a site in Rostov-on-Don, Russia at which 27,000 Jews and Soviet civilians were massacred in 1942 to 1943 by the SS Einsatzgruppe D during the Holocaust in Russia.
Hundreds of thousands of Jews were left homeless and tens of thousands became victims of serious illness. [21] Modern estimates of Jewish deaths during the Russian Civil War have been lower, between 1918 and 1921, a total of 1,236 pogroms were committed against Jews in 524 towns in Ukraine. Estimates of the number of Jews who were killed in ...