Lwów pogrom (1914)

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Lwów pogrom
LocationLwów, Austria-Hungary (Austrian Poland, now Ukraine)
DateSeptember 27, 1914
Deaths38-49
Injuredover 443
VictimsJews
PerpetratorsCossacks

The Lwów pogrom (Polish: pogrom lwowski, German: Lemberger 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 World War I. Following a reported robbery, or shots, involving the Imperial Russian Army in the Lviv's Jewish quarter, Russian Cossacks assaulted nearby Jewish civilians, resulting in about 40 civilian fatalities and a number of injuries. In the aftermath, no Cossacks were court-martialed, but several Jews were arrested and released shortly afterward.[1]

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  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.