Pogrom

Draft In Tulsa Oklahoma on September 16th 2016, Terence Crutcher was fatally shot by Officer Betty Jo Shelbie. The police were originally notified because there was a car stalled in the middle of the road but by the end of it, a black unarmed man was murdered in cold blood. A helicopter from above captured the video where the man was shot. He was called a “bad dude”, however was he really so? No. "That big 'bad dude' was a father," his sister said after watching the video. "That big bad dude was a son...That big bad dude's life mattered. His life mattered." (nj.com) He did not put up any resistance at all and kept his hands in the air as a normal citizen should. However, even when he followed the orders that the police ordered, he was still…

Pogroms. Pogroms hurt people. Pogroms are the targeting a person solely based on their religion. Many groups have fallen victim to pogroms in the past. One of the major mass exterminations of pogroms happened in Europe in 1933. This tragic event resulted in the death of 12 million people will never be forgotten. Many people do not believe pogroms exist, but the Holocaust and anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia in 1821 refute that. There is much controversy surrounding the topic of pogroms. There is…

hatred towards Jews, but the government had very strong anti-semitic roots. In 1938, the Kristallnacht pogrom occurred. There was a large outburst of anger against the Jews living in Germany that was organized by the government, and Jews were attacked by Nazis and citizens alike. The pogrom was designed specifically to harm Jews and included large amounts of chaos and disorder. In Alan Steinweis’ book, Kristallnacht 1938, he addresses why the Kristallnacht Pogrom happened when it happened and…

and ended being an all-out riot. Killing dozens of Jews and massive property damage. After the riot, the Jewish Historical Commission sent Chaim Bialik to Kishinev to write a poem about to interview survivors and tell their story. Survivors spoke to Bialik about their experiences of looting, rampaging, and horror stories of the rioters attacking and marvelously killing women and children. What Bialik was most shocked about was how the men hid away as their wives were being attacked which he…

Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. Usually, it’s people who are seeking to live as citizens in a new establishment or country. Oftentimes, it’s to escape hardships their country is experiencing or to receive more opportunities their country as yet to offer. In the book, The Immigrant Experience, it shows the hardships immigrants had to endure, the mistreatment they receive, and the strength they had to overcome all. Evidence found in the piece…

Gross’s Neighbors, one reads the story of a horrific pogrom committed by the inhabitants of Jedwabne (a village in Poland) against their Jewish neighbors. In the film Aftermath (Pokłosie; 2012) by Władysław Pasikowski, one finds a parallel—the film was inspired by the Jedwabne pogrom—but this time told sixty years after the fact. Both stories share a similar past: a small village inhabited by Poles, who, during the early days of the Second World War, committed a pogrom against their Jewish…

Human Rights Violations: The Holocaust and Russian Pogroms Against Jews Throughout history, countless human rights violations have taken place. Millions of people have been victims of abuse and murder due to conditions they cannot control. Human rights violations have taken place in numerous regions and nations. Some of these infringements have included purges, forced famines, genocides, racial segregation, and concentration camps. Men, women, and children have all been victims of these…

The Russians would not accept the Jewish culture. In fact the Jews would be killed if found teaching or preaching in a synagogue. The major reason for separating with Russia was to stop getting abused. The Jewish people had to witness their own daughters and wives get raped by the Russian people and then killed. Muller 2. The pogroms affected the Jews in many ways. It severely cut down the population of the Jews. At the episode of the war, the Jews, willing to show their dependability to their…

he term "pogrom" became commonly used in English after a large-scale wave of anti-Jewish riots swept through south-western Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine and Poland) from 1881 to 1884 (in that period over 200 anti-Jewish events occurred in the Russian Empire, notably the Kiev, Warsaw and Odessa pogroms).[3] The trigger for these pogroms was the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, for which some blamed "the Jews".[4] The extent to which the Russian press was responsible for encouraging…

happened; however, the question still remains if these so called sources can be trusted. But, on this day in July of 1941, it was the Polish people who carried out the Jewish pogrom. Before the war, Jan gross describes how they were friendly with the Jews, “Everybody was on a first-name basis, Janek, Icek… Life here was, I would say, somehow idyllic.” (19) However, as time went on Jan…