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Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–46

Background: Anti-Communist Armed Resistance: Blood Libel: Kielce Pogrom: Number of Victims:
 * 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
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 * Jewish people were still being killed (cruel ways)
 * 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 them
 * that 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 accused of using Christian children blood for the sake of rituals
 * Thought they did this to discourage Holocaust survivors from returning to Poland
 * 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
 * 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