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| '''Pinsk massacre''' was the murder of 35 Jewish civilians by ] in ] in 1919. | '''Pinsk massacre''' was the murder of 35 Jewish civilians by ] in ] in 1919. | ||
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| In Western press of the time, the ] was referred to as ''Polish Pogrom at Pinsk'' {{fact}} and was noticed by wider public opinion, resulting in an American mission being send to Poland to investigate the Pinsk massacre and other real and alleged atrocities. The American mission led by in the ] published the ] on October 3, 1919. According to the findings of this Anglo-American Investigating Commission, a total of about 300 Jews lost their lives in ]; however the commission also found out that the Polish military and civil authorities did do their best to prevent the incidents and their recurrence in the future; the excesses were of political rather than anti-Semitic nature and in the chaotic conditions of a war zone all parties were to blame.<ref name="Piotrowski-41-42">{{en icon}} {{cite book | author =] | coauthors = | title =Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide... | year =1997 | editor = | pages =p. 41-42| chapter = | chapterurl = | publisher =McFarland & Company | location = | id =ISBN 0-7864-0371-3 | format = | accessdate = }}</ref> | In Western press of the time, the ] was referred to as ''Polish Pogrom at Pinsk'' {{fact}} and was noticed by wider public opinion, resulting in an American mission being send to Poland to investigate the Pinsk massacre and other real and alleged atrocities. The American mission led by in the ] published the ] on October 3, 1919. According to the findings of this Anglo-American Investigating Commission, a total of about 300 Jews lost their lives in ]; however the commission also found out that the Polish military and civil authorities did do their best to prevent the incidents and their recurrence in the future; the excesses were of political rather than anti-Semitic nature and in the chaotic conditions of a war zone all parties were to blame.<ref name="Piotrowski-41-42">{{en icon}} {{cite book | author =] | coauthors = | title =Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide... | year =1997 | editor = | pages =p. 41-42| chapter = | chapterurl = | publisher =McFarland & Company | location = | id =ISBN 0-7864-0371-3 | format = | accessdate = }}</ref> | ||
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| * {{cite book | author=Мельтюхов, Михаил Иванович (])| title=Советско-польские войны. Военно-политическое противостояние 1918—1939 гг. (Soviet-Polish Wars. Political and Military standoff of 1918-1939) | location= Moscow | publisher= Вече (Veche) | year = 2001 | id = ISBN 5-699-07637-9 | url = http://militera.lib.ru/research/meltyukhov2/index.html }} (in Russian). | |||
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Pinsk massacre was the murder of 35 Jewish civilians by Polish Army in Pinsk in 1919.
On April 5th, some seventy-five Jewish civilian participant of a Zionistic meeting discussing American food relief were taken hostage by Polish soldiers, acting on a suspicion that the Jews were discussing how to support Bolsheviks (at that time the entire region was witnessing the begining of the Polish-Soviet War).
A Polish officer on the scence, major Łuczyński, after hearing reports that Jewish inhabitants of the city are preparing to riot, panicked and instead of carrying the proper investigation ordered the execution hostages. Within an hour 35 of them were shot by Polish soldiers
The Poles attempted to cover the crime claiming that the victims were a group of communist insurgents preparing an uprising. Later, the Polish Group Commander General Antoni Listowski claimed that the the Polish troops were attacked by the Jewish population. Łuczyński was never punished for the crime, and instead he was promoted to the rank of general soon.
In Western press of the time, the massacre was referred to as Polish Pogrom at Pinsk and was noticed by wider public opinion, resulting in an American mission being send to Poland to investigate the Pinsk massacre and other real and alleged atrocities. The American mission led by in the Henry Morgenthau, Sr. published the Morgenthau Report on October 3, 1919. According to the findings of this Anglo-American Investigating Commission, a total of about 300 Jews lost their lives in this and related incidents; however the commission also found out that the Polish military and civil authorities did do their best to prevent the incidents and their recurrence in the future; the excesses were of political rather than anti-Semitic nature and in the chaotic conditions of a war zone all parties were to blame.
References
- Мельтюхов, Михаил Иванович (Mikhail Meltyukhov) (2001). Советско-польские войны. Военно-политическое противостояние 1918—1939 гг. (Soviet-Polish Wars. Political and Military standoff of 1918-1939). Moscow: Вече (Veche). ISBN 5-699-07637-9. (in Russian).
Notes
- Joanna Beata Michlic, Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, University of Nebraska Press, 2006, ISBN 0803232403Google Print, p.118
- Template:En icon Tadeusz Piotrowski (1997). Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide... McFarland & Company. pp. p. 41-42. ISBN 0-7864-0371-3.
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