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Chapter 3: Pogroms
In the days of October 1905 following the promulgation of the Manifesto by Tsar Nicholas II, pogroms claimed nearly eight thousand victims in all major cities of Ukraine. Following these troubles, two hundred thousand Russian Jews will choose exile.
In Kiev, the anti-Jewish violence lasted from 18 to 20 October 1905. Irène Némirovsky, hidden behind a bed by her stove, transposed this episode in Dogs and wolves in 1939 : Sometimes the soldiers, the vagabonds, the professional plunderers, the terrified Jews with hysterical cries gathered at the entrance of the ghetto [...]. Then the roaring of angry beasts rose. [... ] These are broken windows. [... ] These are flying stones. [... ] That’s the crowd laughing. And a woman screams as if she was being kicked out. Why?”
The Dogs and the Wolves ,1940
Pogroms of 1905 © Memorial de la Shoah / CDJC / MJP
