Language:
English
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
East European Politics and Societies
Angaben zur Quelle:
20,4 (2006) 598-621
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Jews History 1918-1945
;
Holocaust survivors
;
Lublin (Poland : Voivodeship)
Abstract:
To test the widely accepted view in Polish historiography that Jews in postwar Poland were disproportionately active in the Polish Communist Party and security forces, examines the case of the Lublin district, the first to be liberated by Soviet troops in the summer of 1944. Concludes that this view does not fit the facts. Between summer 1944-fall 1945, the small number of Jewish survivors were hardly interested in politics; they were simply attempting to survive, to find relatives who may have survived, and to regain property that belonged to them before the war. Charges made before the war that the Jews were anti-Polish and communists were repeated after the war by nationalists who were engaged in a political and, to some extent, military struggle for power against the communists. In the face of postwar antisemitic violence, most of the surviving Jews emigrated.
DOI:
10.1177/0888325406293293
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