Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944 1946
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 162 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5108-5376-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Anti-Jewish Violence In Poland, 1944–1946 refers to a series of violent incidents that immediately followed the end of the Second World War in Poland and influenced postwar history of Jews as well as Polish Jewish relations. The exact number of Jewish victims is a subject of debate, but the range is estimated as 1,000 to 2,000 (with 327 documented cases). Jews constitued between 2% and 3% of the total number of victims of postwar violence in the country, including the Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust on territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union. The incidents ranged from individual attacks to pogroms. Partly as a result of this violence, but also because Poland was the only Eastern Bloc country to allow free Jewish aliyah to Israel, the number of Jews in the country changed dramatically. Uninterrupted traffic across the Polish borders intensified with many Jews passing through on their way to the West. In January 1946, there...