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I am planning to edit the Wikipedia article “Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–46.” I believe that this article can use some editing because it doesn’t include first-hand accounts of the violence, which I believe is a crucial part to understanding how the Jewish people felt during this time. To edit this article, I will use three sources. One is Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz” by Jan T. Gross. Another source is the article “THE KIELCE POGROM: A BLOOD LIBEL MASSACRE OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS.” (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007941). Also, the article “Evolution of Antisemitism in Poland.” (https://history105.libraries.wsu.edu/spring2015/2015/01/20/holocaust-effects-on-jews-and-the-creation-of-israel/). Also, "Polish Victims" (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005473).

Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–46

Background:

• Anti-Semitism was prevalent prior to the end of World War II
  • Became a national belief that Jewish people weren’t good for the country
• Many people believed that their religion was sacrificed and they were given nothing in return
• The Anti-Semitism was seen in Poland
  • People would parade in the streets killing and harming Jewish people
  • The Nazis would stand by and watch it happen
  • Jewish people needed a stamp to get back into Poland and after that they couldn’t leave the country
• Polish Jews were being sent back to Poland from other countries
  • If they didn’t have the stamp to get into Poland, they were forced to leave
• After the war, Jewish people were encouraged to live in a diverse community
  • Couldn’t be targeted as easilythat the Jewish people were the reason there was so much destruction after the war, which lead to many other people believing itthat the Jewish people were the reason there was so much destruction after the war, which lead to many other people believing itthat the Jewish people were the reason there was so much destruction after the war, which lead to many other people believing it
  • Jewish people were still being killed (cruel ways)

Anti-Communist Armed Resistance:

• Government believed that the Jewish people were the reason there was so much destruction after the war, which lead to many other people believing it
• The Order Police stationed in Poland would oversee the Polish police and force them to follow strict rules and regulations
• The Germans secret police forces know was the Gestapo were occupying this city and many assumed that the mass murder of Jews was because of themthat the Jewish people were the reason there was so much destruction after the war, which lead to many other people believing it

Blood Libel:

• Jewish people were accused of using Christian children blood for the sake of rituals
• Thought they did this to discourage Holocaust survivors from returning to Poland

Kielce Pogrom:

• Kielce massacre let Poland Jews believe that they were not wanted there and they had no future in that country
  • Many fled the country
• Police went to investigate a building that was said have been the place where he was kept after he was kidnapped
  • Forced Jewish people to surrender any weapons, and someone fired a shot
  • Resulted in officials and civilians killing the Jews in the building
  • Polish people outside of the building beat and killed many Jewish people
• Towards the end of 1946, the only sentencing for the killings was to Colonel Wiktor Kuznicki, who received a one-year sentence
  • The commander of the Kielce Office of the Security Service and Major Wladyslaw Sobczynski were acquitted
• Become a symbol of the state of Europe following the Holocaust

Number of Victims:

• Nearly all 24,000 Jewish inhabitants of Kielce were murdered during the Holocaust
  • About 200 lived
• Between 1939 and 1945, at least 1.5 million Polish citizens were deported to Germany for forced labor
• Many were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps
• Nazis killed around 3 million Polish Jews