On Easter Sunday (April 6) 1903 and the following day the Bessarabian city of Kishinev (Moldovan: Chişinău) became the site of a pogrom in which dozens of Jews died and hundreds were wounded, raped, or orphaned. The damage done to property was valued at several million rubles. News of the pogrom, which is widely considered to be the first of the 20th century, triggered a response worldwide and inspired fierce international protests on the part of diplomats …