Martin Antonenko
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Progom At Kinschinjow
On April 6, 1903, the incited residents of the city turned to the rumor deliberately spread by "interested circles" that the Jews in the city of Kishinev (today the capital of the Republic of Moldova) had committed a ritual murder of a Christian child against their Jewish fellow citizens.
49 Jewish residents are murdered, more than 600 injured...
... and more than 1,500 residential buildings in the city (a third of all houses!) devastated, many set on fire....:
From the responsible governor Vikentij (Rudolf) Samoilowitsch fon Raaben…
...the police are instructed to look the other way, to behave passively and only to protect state institutions if they should be attacked by mistake.
The military are ordered to remain in barracks.
Only the next day, when the mob had let off steam and murder, did the head of the Kishinev garrison, General Vladimir Beckman…
…issue ammunition to the troops on the orders of Governor fon Raaben and order them to “restore order”.
Under the “normal” circumstances of the latently anti-Semitic Russian everyday life (which was definitely protected by the state), people in the Russian Empire would have shrugged their shoulders and gone back to business as usual.
The attacks would have remained one of the many hundreds of pogroms in Russian history and no one would have crowed about them.
This time, however, is something different! Photos of the murders reach the West and trigger a huge echo nationally and internationally - especially in the USA!
The next newspaper cartoon shows US President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt urging the Russian Tsar to end the cruel oppression of Jews in Russia...:
Over a million dollars are being raised for the victims of Kishinev in Europe and the USA.
But Russians are also showing solidarity: the famous opera singer Fjodor Schaljapin…
]
...donates his fees.
The following year, under the impression of the Kishinev pogrom, US President Theodore Roosevelt refused to place Russian government bonds on the US market, which brought Russia considerable financial disadvantages in the Russo-Japanese War.
A memorial commemorates the murder of the Jews in Kishinev on April 6, 1903...:
On April 6, 1903, the incited residents of the city turned to the rumor deliberately spread by "interested circles" that the Jews in the city of Kishinev (today the capital of the Republic of Moldova) had committed a ritual murder of a Christian child against their Jewish fellow citizens.
49 Jewish residents are murdered, more than 600 injured...
... and more than 1,500 residential buildings in the city (a third of all houses!) devastated, many set on fire....:
From the responsible governor Vikentij (Rudolf) Samoilowitsch fon Raaben…
...the police are instructed to look the other way, to behave passively and only to protect state institutions if they should be attacked by mistake.
The military are ordered to remain in barracks.
Only the next day, when the mob had let off steam and murder, did the head of the Kishinev garrison, General Vladimir Beckman…
…issue ammunition to the troops on the orders of Governor fon Raaben and order them to “restore order”.
Under the “normal” circumstances of the latently anti-Semitic Russian everyday life (which was definitely protected by the state), people in the Russian Empire would have shrugged their shoulders and gone back to business as usual.
The attacks would have remained one of the many hundreds of pogroms in Russian history and no one would have crowed about them.
This time, however, is something different! Photos of the murders reach the West and trigger a huge echo nationally and internationally - especially in the USA!
The next newspaper cartoon shows US President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt urging the Russian Tsar to end the cruel oppression of Jews in Russia...:
Over a million dollars are being raised for the victims of Kishinev in Europe and the USA.
But Russians are also showing solidarity: the famous opera singer Fjodor Schaljapin…
]...donates his fees.
The following year, under the impression of the Kishinev pogrom, US President Theodore Roosevelt refused to place Russian government bonds on the US market, which brought Russia considerable financial disadvantages in the Russo-Japanese War.
A memorial commemorates the murder of the Jews in Kishinev on April 6, 1903...:
