Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" recently received a new exhibit. This is the Iskra magazine from 1905, which was given to us by Volodymyr Verbonol (Dnipro).
Iskra magazine is a weekly illustrated supplement to the newspaper Rossiyske Slovo, which was published in 1901-1917. Its publisher was Ivan Sitin (1851-1934), known for his publishing projects. Today he could be called a "media mogul", as his company owned 9 newspapers and 20 magazines, one of which is still published under its original name - "Around the World" (Russian "Around the World", the first issue was published in 1861.).
The copy donated to Museum is particularly interesting in that it contains information about the terrible historical events of October 1905 - the anti-Jewish pogroms, which affected 49 provinces of the country (primarily within the so-called Settlement Strip) and took place in more than 660 settlements. About 2,000 people were killed and about 3,500 were injured.
The pogroms of 1905 and Katerynoslav did not escape. The photos published in the magazine engraved the events of those days. Jewish shops on Proviantska Street (now Pastera Street) and Katerynynsky Avenue (now D. Yavornytsky Avenue) to Shiroka Street (now Kniahyni Olhy Street) were destroyed. Then the rioters went to the Lake Bazaar, where they continued to destroy the trade ranks. Many Jewish families were left homeless and without means of subsistence.
The report of the security department (political police of the Russian Empire) stated that "soldiers and especially Cossacks were reluctant to follow the orders of officers to establish order."
A concise Jewish encyclopedia states that 67 Jews were killed and 47 were killed during the October pogroms in our city.
Soon these exhibits will take a worthy place in the exposition of Museum.