Language:
German
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
204 (2012) 179-188
Keywords:
Jews History 1945-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
In 1946, according to the CKZP (Statistics Division of the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland) there were ca. 240,000 Jews in the country, concentrated mostly in Lower Silesia (especially in Wrocław), but also in Łódź, Warsaw, and Kraków. The hardships of life after the war, the continuous slanders and libels of the lower clergy of the Catholic Church against the Jews, and the accusation that the Jews collaborated with the communist regime, catalyzed an aggressive antisemitic response from the population. Several pogroms were carried out during 1946-47, resulting in the death of many Jews. The violent reaction of the Polish population against the repression of the Kielce pogrom by communist government authorities in July 1946 resulted in a mass emigration of ca. 170,000 Jews. In 1948, there was a change in the regime's policies towards the Jews following Stalin's anti-Jewish campaign in the Soviet Union. The anti-Zionist stance and attacks on Jewish social and cultural life became worse in 1967-68, during Israel's Six Day War and immediately afterward. Anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist hysteria provoked the last wave of Jewish emigration. After 1968, the Jewish population in Poland was reduced to 4,000, putting an end to 1,000 years of a Jewish presence in the country.
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