On Purim we remember that one who might rise to destroy the Jews can come in every generation. We mostly think of the Nazis, but there others too. With impossibly large numbers of dead. The Chelminicki Massacres in Russia saw 300,000 Jews massacred in the mid 1600’s.
ok nachum.
lets not exaggerate. most sources hold the death toll at around 100,000 with many saying around 50,000. It was the ferocity that made these pogroms so notorious.
Passover also. V’hie sh’amda.