[ noun ] organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews) <noun.act>
In 1938, bands of Nazis began roaming the streets of Germany and Austria, looting and burning synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in a pogrom that became known as "Kristallnacht" ("Crystal Night").
Israel radio on Friday quoted Mavrik Wolfson of Riga, a Jewish member of the Supreme Soviet, as demanding a Soviet government response to reports that Russian nationalist groups plan to carry out a Jewish pogrom, and steps to protect the Jews.
The romance concocted by Professor Spindler is that the Iceman was escaping a local pogrom, in which his village had been destroyed.
Often fugitive, they were accustomed to carrying their spiritual and material baggage across borders, away from the latest epidemic or pogrom.
It was a pogrom," the rabbi said later.
"With an Arab village in which a pogrom on Israeli children takes place, there's nothing else to propose but to destroy all of the village, to wipe it out from the land of Israel," he told Israel's armed forces radio.
But Schwarz and other historians say a large-scale pogrom had been planned for several months, with the Nazis waiting for the right time to carry it out.
This may not have been the clearest or most technically polished programme of its sort ever made, but it is the first I have seen to give a detailed account of the Mengistu pogrom.