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Great Maharsha Synagogue
The Great Maharsha Synagogue in Ostroh, Ukraine, a building damaged twice by violence against Jews. As of October 6 2023 the opening said the synagogue "was damaged during the Khmelnytsky massacres and centuries later, once again, during the Holocaust." Today the word appears 0 times in the opening, though it survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn from the opening that the building was damaged during the Khmelnytsky massacres, the seventeenth century mass killing of Jews.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1.
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The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
Great Maharsha Synagogue ( ) was a synagogue in Ostroh , named after Rabbi Shmuel Eidels . It was built after 1627 under a restriction "prohibiting the erection of synagogues taller than churches." The synagogue was damaged during the Khmelnytsky massacres and centuries later, once again, during the Holocaust. It was used as a warehouse during the Soviet era , and later abandoned. Reconstruction of the ruins began in 2016 under the leadership of Hryhoriy Arshynov .1
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Today
“massacre” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1. Read the current article and compare.
| Oct '23 | 2025 | |
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| massacre | 1 | 0 |
Where the word went
It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.
- “massacre” now appears 1× under History, 25% of the way down the article
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