I'm from the global South, so I don't know minute details in the western history that well. Yes, this post should have gone under a political community, but since I'm interested in the history, I believe that this is the right place to post them.
I am interested in this part of the article:
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, this town’s population was 80 percent Jewish at the start of the twentieth century. In contrast, at the start of World War II, only 26 percent of the town was Jewish, after Jews fled or were imprisoned and killed in gulags. Devastatingly, the remainder of the Jewish population was killed in one mass slaughter by the Nazis in 1942.
However, from this Wikipedia page:
...in the 1930s the Jews were underrepresented in the Gulag population
Not just that, but according to this page mentions how most of the pogroms were carried out by the ASFR army and UNA, although the Green and Red army were also complicit to some extent.
Anything else I should be looking out for?
apparently something made the jewish population drop from ~3k to ~1k during the time the town grew to at least twice its size? i dunno what happened and who did it, we'd need more info and i cant find any (in english, after a quick google).
but then the town took in thousands of fleeing refugees (jews from poland) supposedly? and then the nazis captured it and killed all the jews, locals and polish jews.
so yeah, based on this info, i dont see how you can jump straight to blaming the bolsheviks. could've been them, could've been the whites.
more information is needed.
There's some information about it, but that's just part of it, and so I believe that it could be misleading. From what I've read, Jewish population actually increased in imperial Russia. They were restricted to live in Pale of Settlement. During the Tsarist regime, there were also multiple waves of pogroms, leading to death and migration.
Interestingly, there's also a page on Jewish Bolshevism and Economic antisemitism. From what I know, there's no information about pogroms after 1921.