Lviv pogroms (1941)
A Jewish woman chased by men and youth during the pogrom | |
| Date | June 1941 – July 1941 |
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| Location | Lviv, Eastern Poland/Western Ukraine |
| Coordinates | 49°30′36″N 24°00′36″E / 49.510°N 24.010°E |
| Type | Beatings, sexual abuse, robberies, mass murder |
| Participants | Germans, Ukrainian nationalists, local crowds |
| Deaths | Thousands of Jews (see estimates) |
The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive pogroms and massacres of Jews in June and July 1941 in the city of Lwów in German-occupied Eastern Poland/Western Ukraine (now Lviv, Ukraine). The massacres were perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists (specifically, the OUN), German death squads (Einsatzgruppen), and urban population from 30 June to 2 July, and from 25 to 29 July, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Thousands of Jews were killed both in the pogroms and in the Einsatzgruppen killings.
Ukrainian militia as well as Ukrainian residents and to a lower degree Poles targeted Jews in the first pogrom, which was triggered by the discovery of thousands of bodies in three Lviv prisons of victims of the Soviet NKVD prisoner massacres, which were widely blamed on "Jewish Bolsheviks". The subsequent massacres were directed by the Germans in the context of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. The pogroms have been widely debated in the historiography, including the extent to which Ukrainian nationalists played a central or complicit role.