15th–17th centuries
Khmelnytsky Massacres
1648·Kremenets
Toll
inconnu
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
the massacred community
The community of Kremenets, in Volhynia, was massacred during the uprising.
The figures put forward by the Jewish chroniclers of the time — who sometimes speak of hundreds of communities destroyed and hundreds of thousands of dead — were long repeated as given. Recent scholarship has significantly revised them downward, without in any way diminishing the catastrophic nature of those years: a considerable portion of the Jewish community of the Republic perished or was displaced.
- Period :
- 15th–17th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Sources
Nathan Hanover, Yeven Metzula ; chroniques polonaises.