Kiev Pogroms (1919)

Kiev Pogroms (1919)

The Kiev pogroms of 1919 refers to a series of Jewish pogroms in various places around Kiev carried out by White Volunteer Army troops. The series of events concern the following districts:

• Skvira, 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 Kiev 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.