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Jewish survivors found it practically impossible to reconstruct their earlier lives as they were before in pre-war Poland. Jewish communities and Jewish life as it had existed was gone. Jews who somehow survived the Holocaust were met with threats, violence, and murder from their Polish neighbors, occasionally in a deliberate and organized manner. People of the community frequently had knowledge of these murders and turned a blind eye or held no sympathy for the victims. Jewish communities responded to this violence by reporting the violence to the Ministry of Public Administration but were not granted much assistance. Returning Jews also often discovered that their homes had been looted or destroyed. Over 3 million Jewish Poles were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, leading to the local population occupying formerly Jewish property and space. Some homes had new repatriated inhabitants who at times were very unhappy to see returning Jewish survivors and refused to return property back to the former owners. The possibility of obtaining property was a motive for local Poles to carry out violence, and even murder, against returning Jews. Property categorized as “abandoned” were put in trusteeship of the state, in which a majority of these properties were under former Jewish ownership. This property not only included homes, but public institutions such as synagogues and other buildings belonging to the vanished Jewish community. The increasing amount of Jews fleeing to larger cities in search of each other resulted in local authorities obtaining more property in which they could distribute among their community.

In addition, some returning Jews were met with Anti-Jewish bias in Polish employment and education administrations. Post-war labor certificates contained markings distinguishing Jews and non-Jews. The Jewish Community in Szczecin reported a lengthy report of complaints regarding job discrimination. Although Jewish schools were created in the few towns containing a relatively decent Jewish population, many Jewish children were enrolled into Polish state schools. In the state schools that allowed Jewish schoolchildren at all, unlike in the town of Otwock, there were still numerous accounts of beatings and persecution targeting these children.