![German children, behind an SS man, watch as religious objects from the Zeven synagogue are set on fire during Kristallnacht (the ... [LCID: 4318]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/c4f50fce-b81e-4b34-8051-bae1129b227f.jpg "German children, behind an SS man, watch as religious objects from the Zeven synagogue are set on fire during Kristallnacht (the ... [LCID: 4318]")
German children, behind an SS man, watch as religious objects from the Zeven synagogue are set on fire during Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"). Zeven, Germany, November 10, 1938.
Item View![The synagogue in Oberramstadt (a town in southwestern Germany) burns during Kristallnacht. [LCID: 04468]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/9a6684b5-33c0-4200-bdb1-d3f016167c6d.jpg "The synagogue in Oberramstadt (a town in southwestern Germany) burns during Kristallnacht. [LCID: 04468]")
The synagogue in Oberramstadt (a town in southwestern Germany) burns during Kristallnacht. Oberramstadt, Germany, November 9-10, 1938.
Item View![Jewish-owned shop destroyed during Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"). [LCID: 50378]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e60b9d4d-db11-43d8-8d76-cf30b4c5614b.jpg "Jewish-owned shop destroyed during Kristallnacht (the \"Night of Broken Glass\"). [LCID: 50378]")
Jewish-owned shop destroyed during Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass" pogrom. Berlin, Germany, November 1938.
Item View![Synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"). [LCID: 85289]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/75db2422-808d-4697-9c80-2ded5437fbc8.jpg "Synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht (the \"Night of Broken Glass\"). [LCID: 85289]")
Interior of a synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"). Dortmund, Germany, November 1938.
Item View![A knitwear store emptied and destroyed during the January 21-23 Iron Guard pogrom. [LCID: 73481]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/ba26097c-67ff-457a-9946-30b7cf8fbb92.jpg "A knitwear store emptied and destroyed during the January 21-23 Iron Guard pogrom. [LCID: 73481]")
A knitwear store that was emptied and destroyed during the January 21-23 Iron Guard pogrom. Bucharest, Romania, January 1941.
Item View![Sephardic synagogue destroyed during the January 21-23 Iron Guard pogrom. [LCID: 73483]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/2655f0ba-d628-423c-b8a2-628d4bf96143.jpg "Sephardic synagogue destroyed during the January 21-23 Iron Guard pogrom. [LCID: 73483]")
Sephardic synagogue destroyed during the January 21-23 Iron Guard pogrom. Bucharest, Romania, January 1941.
Item View![A woman mourns by the coffins of Jews who died in the Kielce pogrom. [LCID: 63688a]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d9768d29-1c70-4095-ac6b-7d7f1ad6a98b.jpg "A woman mourns by the coffins of Jews who died in the Kielce pogrom. [LCID: 63688a]")
A woman mourns by the coffins of Jews who died in the Kielce pogrom. Poland, July 6, 1946.
Item View![Coffins containing bodies of Jews killed in the Kielce pogrom. [LCID: 63688b]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d303ff0e-666f-44f5-a354-a4db488becd4.jpg "Coffins containing bodies of Jews killed in the Kielce pogrom. [LCID: 63688b]")
Coffins containing bodies of Jews killed in the Kielce pogrom. Poland, July 6, 1946.
The mass violence of the Kielce pogrom drew on an entrenched local history of antisemitism–especially false allegations accusing Jews of using the blood of Christian children for ritual purposes (a charge known as a “blood libel”)–with the intent of discouraging the return of Jewish Holocaust survivors to Poland.
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