Victims of Pogrom 1903
The collection is the result of merging
information contained in 2 published documents:
Within the Pale: The True Story of Anti-Semitic Persecutions
in Russia, Michael Davitt, London, 1903
Davitt was an Irish journalist who visited Kishinev after
the pogrom, and reported on it for two New York newspapers. The
list there is an early one and is incomplete, but does have the
genealogical benefit of often including the patronymic names.
Ha-Pogrom Be-Kishineff - Pesach 1903-Pesach 1963, Tel
Aviv, 1963
This book, published on the 60th anniversary of the pogrom
includes a copy of an original incomplete list (in Hebrew, awkwardly
translated by a colleague and I).
Some of the other details here are either from Easter in
Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom, and excellent book written
by Edward H. Judge (New York University Press, 1992; recently
published in paperback as well) or from personal correspondence
with Judge.
There were apparently 49 Jewish victim who died during or as
a result of the pogrom (38 male, 11 females, including several
children). According to the chief surgeon of the Kishinev Jewish
Hospital, 37 were dead when they were brought to the hospital
during the pogrom, 4 died at home following the pogrom, and 8
died in the hospital as a result of injuries received during the
pogrom.
My list has only 46 people (including 6 females and one child
of unknown gender). It is possible that I have listed someone
as dead who was only injured, or that I have listed a single person
twice due to a confusion of names. Clearly, not all those who
lost their lives due to the pogrom are mentioned in the two lists
I have located. Nevertheless it is a start.
I hope to get additional information from Prof. Judge and a
colleague of his in Kishinev (now Chisinau, Moldova) who has done
extensive pogrom research. If I ultimately have additional information,
I will integrate it.
In some cases, the sources have additional information about
how the person died (often a very ugly story).
Where the different sources yielded several names for the same
person, I have included both (as in "Mordechai/Mottel").
Alan Greenberg: alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca
I have added the 47th victim based on the article provided by Rosemarie Cohen (see article
Morris Cohen Keeps a Promise)
Ariel Parkansky
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