Kunmadaras pogrom
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The Kunmadaras pogrom was a post-World War II anti-Semitic pogrom
in Kunmadaras
, Hungary
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The program resulted in the killing of two and wounding of fifteen Jews on May 22, 1946. The frenzy was instigated by the crowd's belief that the Jews had made sausage out of Christian children.
Pogrom
A pogrom is a form of violent riot, a mob attack directed against a minority group, and characterized by killings and destruction of their homes and properties, businesses, and religious centres...
in Kunmadaras
Kunmadaras
Kunmadaras is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. The first written record of the existence of the village is from 1393. According to it Sigismund gave this area to the possession of György Madaras, that is where the name comes...
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
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The program resulted in the killing of two and wounding of fifteen Jews on May 22, 1946. The frenzy was instigated by the crowd's belief that the Jews had made sausage out of Christian children.