pogrom

pogrom [ puh’-GRUHM, -GROM, poh- ]
	[ noun ]
	MEANING :
	an organized massacre of helpless people esp. those of jews
	USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
	The holocaust against Jews during world war II was the most ghastly pogrom ever witnessed by mankind.
	USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
	The first pogrom is often considered to be the 1821 anti-Jewish riots in Odessa (modern Ukraine) after the death of the Greek Orthodox patriarch in Istanbul, in which 14 Jews were killed.