Film still of a woman being dragged by her hair during the pogrom in German-occupied Lwów on July 1, 1941.
On that day, mobs humiliated, physically abused, and attacked Jews at multiple locations around the city. The mobs consisted of non-Jewish men and women, including local Polish and Ukrainian civilians; German forces; Ukrainian militiamen; and Ukrainian nationalist activists. Perpetrators in the crowds, including teenagers and children, pulled Jewish women’s hair, manhandled them, and sometimes stripped them of their clothing. Some women were raped. The violence against Jewish women during this pogrom was well-documented in photographs and on film. This film still comes from film footage taken by the Germans and later introduced by Allied prosecutors as evidence at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
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