Kiev pogroms (1919)
| Kiev pogroms | |
|---|---|
| Part of Pogroms during the Russian Civil War | |
Pogrom victims in Alexander Hospital, Kiev, 1919. Credit: Elias Tcherikower | |
| Location | Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Date | 1919 |
| Target | Primarily Jews |
Attack type | Decapitation, Burning, Stabbing, Shooting |
| Deaths | Unspecified number |
| Injured | Unspecified number |
| Perpetrators | Ukrainian nationalists, White Armies and Don Cossacks |
The Kiev pogroms of 1919 refers to a series of anti-Jewish pogroms in various places around Kiev carried out by White Volunteer Army troops. The series of events concern the following districts:
- Skvyra, June 23, 1919: a pogrom in which 45 Jews were massacred, many were severely wounded, and 35 Jewish women were raped by army insurgents.
- Justingrad, August, 1919: where a pogrom made its way through the shtetl with an unspecified number of Jewish men murdered and Jewish women raped.
- Ivankiv district, 18–20 October 1919. In the pogrom carried out by Cossack and Volunteer Army troops, 14 Jews were massacred, 9 wounded, and 15 Jewish women and girls were raped by units under the command of Struk in three days of carnage.