Kiev pogroms (1919)

Kiev pogroms
Part of Pogroms during the Russian Civil War
Pogrom victims in Alexander Hospital, Kiev, 1919. Credit: Elias Tcherikower
Location	Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
Date	1919
Target	Primarily Jews
Attack type	Decapitation, Burning, Stabbing, Shooting
Deaths	Unspecified number
Injured	Unspecified number
Perpetrators	Ukrainian nationalists, White Armies and Don Cossacks

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

• Skvyra, June 23, 1919: a pogrom in which 45 Jews were massacred, many were severely wounded, and 35 Jewish women were raped by army insurgents.^[1]
• 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 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.^[2]