The Lwów pogrom (, ) was a

pogrom A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of Massacre, massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe late 19th- and early 20th-century Anti-Jewis ...

in the city of

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(since 1945,

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) that took place on September 27, 1914, during

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. The violence began when

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troops where shot at in Lwów's Jewish quarter. Accounts of the soldier's reactions vary wildly. In one account, the soldiers stormed three houses believed to have housed the shooter and detained civilians in the vicinity. In another account, the soldiers rioted, shooting and beating civilians as they rampaged through the streets. The number of casualties vary wildly as well. The number of deaths range from as low as 3 to as high as 49. Jews were particularly affected, with some accounts suggesting that up to half of the casualties were Jewish.

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