4 JULY 1946 POGROM of KIELCE - the last anti-Semitic massacre
4 JULY 1946 POGROM of KIELCE - the last anti-Semitic massacre
1 FEBRUARY 2008 The Polish Parliament's go-ahead for the law on the Holocaust:
"The death camps are not defined as Poles" Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chelmo, Belzec, Sobibor and Maidanek: they are the camps of Poland occupied by the Third Reich. The law provides for the prohibition of saying that the death camps were Poles and penalties to those who bind Poland to the crimes committed by the Nazis with a fine with a fine.
Those who "publicly and against the facts attribute to the Polish nation or to the Polish state (and to the Polish citizens note) the responsibility or co-responsibility of crimes committed by the German Third Reich or the crimes against humanity, against peace and other crimes during the war ". A punishment that also concerns cases of "obvious attempts to diminish the responsibility of the real perpetrators of these crimes".In approving the amendment it was also decided that the new provision could affect not only Polish citizens, but also foreigners, "regardless of the laws in force in the place where the act was performed". Later, after international protests, he led the ultra-nationalist right of Jaroslaw Kaczynski to retrace his steps a few months later. the 3-year custodial sentence was abolished, but not the pecuniary one.
World War II had been over for a year, but this did not lead to an end to violence against Jews. The ancient anti-Semitic hatred and greed led to the massacre of the few survivors of the Jewish population of Kielce, a city in southern Poland.I
In 1939 the Jews of Kielce represented one-third of the population of the city: about 24,000 people among those who lived in cities and in neighboring countries.
On 31 March 1941, the field was established.The camp was divided into two: the large ghetto for those who were able to work and the small ghetto for those who were not able to work.
In the endt,the camp contained about 27,000 Jews, 1500 from Vienna.After the first year, 4,000 people died of hunger, disease and cold.Between August 20-24, 1942 the camp was closed, transporting the Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp: only 200 people survived.In the field of Kielce, about 2000 people remained, with the task of inventorying all the assets seized from the Jews, the children between 1 and 4 years were killed on the spot, the women hanged. Particular attention was paid to eliminating all evidence and the Nazis declared Kielce Judenfrei.
Mark Edelman:
Kielce was not an isolated case. There was tension. The Jews returned from Russia, someone wanted to return to their home. A good slice of the Polish population had taken a step forward, occupying apartments and shops. Many of those things that the Jews had left to the Poles had become them. They were afraid to see someone come back one day who could ask them back. In lòdz I had a friend, Fiszkr, a tailor from Lubino returned to Poland with the Red Army. He was not an important character. I had an appointment with him that afternoon. When I arrived, he was lying in the bathtub: he was shot in the back of the head while he was washing his hands as soon as he got back to work. The Jews were let down by trains in the woods and killed. They were actions of the extreme right-wing partisans. There were people who said that Hitler had not finished the work, because they were still Jews. That the Jews wanted to take over Poland ...
The Guardian. Marek Edelman tells
Rudi Assuntino, Wlodek Goldkorn
Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo
In 1946 in Kielce there were 173 Jews who lived in two houses.
Has there been collective removal or not?
In an interview with Deutschlandradio Kultur, the historian Jörg Baberowski
of the Humboldt University of Berlin points the finger at "collective removal"
of anti-Semitism in Poland. The Catholic Church and the Communist Party "are
always presented as the real opponents of Nazism, for which only the Germans
they would be responsible for the extermination "
https://www.osservatorioantisemitismo.it/articoli/1946-massacro-antisemita-di-kielce-in-polonia/
According to the bishop of Kielce, Czelaw Kaczmrek, the pogrom was to blame for the Jews who collaborated with the communist regime.
After the pogrom of Kielce (4 July 1946),Czelaw Kaczmrek appointed a commission to examine his circumstances. The chair of the commission was taken over by the priest prof. Mieczysław Żywczyński. The results of the commission became one of the foundations of the report drawn up on 1 September 1946, which Kaczmarek submitted to the American ambassador.
the final report
The facts of Kielce, regardless of their background, regardless of the fact that they were provoked, regardless of the fact that the government could, but did not want to avoid them were. However, it is a crime that left a stain on Polish society. It was known that the enemy minds of Poland would attempt to attack it for this reason. Any Polish government that is honest, like any other government in the world, would consider it a duty to try to represent the facts of Kielce in the most conscientious manner, reporting all extenuating circumstances, because undoubtedly there were: after all, a kitsch killer and not professional criminals ……
Acting under the effect of an emotion, always decreases the guilt especially when the criminal is only one in a crowd of criminals, when it is from this same crowd excited in a sense encouraged.
The conclusion of the final report
The analysis of the events and the depositions of the witnesses bring us to the following conclusions. As a result of the communist activity of the Jews, a hatred was created for them by the broad masses in Poland. It was not the real cases of death of children in Kielce, attributed to the Jews to provoke him, but they have increased it considerably. Of this they decided to use some Jewish communist agents, in concert with the security office they direct, to provoke a pogrom that would then lend itself to being touted as proof of the need for Jews to emigrate to their country, as proof of The fact is that Polish society reigns as anti-Semitism and fascism, and finally as proof of the reactionary nature of the Church, of which the killers were members.
THE POGROM
On 1 July 1946 Henryk Blaszczyk, 8, disappeared from Kielce; two days later he returns home explaining that he managed to escape from onebuilding inhabited by Jews in Planty 7 street, who were going to kill him to knead the blood.
As an old man Blaszczyk will confess that his story was pure charade.
And yet the recourse to the accusation of a thousand-year-old blood unleashes the fury of his fellow citizens. Communist militiamen enter the building"Of the kidnapping", they disarm and shoot 17 among the Jews present. The others, given to the escape, they are lynched by the crowd, supported by a group of miners providentially appeared to give a hand. The law enforcement agencies remain a look: at the end of the day there are 42 Jews killed and 80 wounded.
The facts of Kielce they pushed many of the last Polish Jews to emigrate forever. Today the Jewish community has 4,000 people. Before the Second World War they represented 20% of the population with 3 million people.
FINAL REFLECTION
No Jews remained after the pogrom in Kielke.
From 8 to 13 May 1991 the Polish writer Gustav Herling, who emigrated to Naples Torno after 50 years to visit his original homeland Kielce is of Jewish origin wanted to go to that building in Via Planty at 7 and wrote in his diary:
"Whatever is said about this pogrom, whether there was a provocation by the Polish or Soviet security apparatuses, it does not explain the speed and ease with which the spark of provocation stoked fire. The earth seemed to wait for nothing but that spark. "
Ther Polish Minister of Education Anna Zalewska has downgraded to "opinions"Polish responsibilities in the pogrom of Kielce and in the terrible one of Jedwabne del 1941 (340 Jews were burned alive in a barn)
1 FEBRUARY 2008 The Polish Parliament's go-ahead for the law on the Holocaust:
"The death camps are not defined as Poles" Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chelmo, Belzec, Sobibor and Maidanek: they are the camps of Poland occupied by the Third Reich. The law provides for the prohibition of saying that the death camps were Poles and penalties to those who bind Poland to the crimes committed by the Nazis with a fine with a fine.
Those who "publicly and against the facts attribute to the Polish nation or to the Polish state (and to the Polish citizens note) the responsibility or co-responsibility of crimes committed by the German Third Reich or the crimes against humanity, against peace and other crimes during the war ". A punishment that also concerns cases of "obvious attempts to diminish the responsibility of the real perpetrators of these crimes".In approving the amendment it was also decided that the new provision could affect not only Polish citizens, but also foreigners, "regardless of the laws in force in the place where the act was performed". Later, after international protests, he led the ultra-nationalist right of Jaroslaw Kaczynski to retrace his steps a few months later. the 3-year custodial sentence was abolished, but not the pecuniary one.
World War II had been over for a year, but this did not lead to an end to violence against Jews. The ancient anti-Semitic hatred and greed led to the massacre of the few survivors of the Jewish population of Kielce, a city in southern Poland.I
In 1939 the Jews of Kielce represented one-third of the population of the city: about 24,000 people among those who lived in cities and in neighboring countries.
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In the endt,the camp contained about 27,000 Jews, 1500 from Vienna.After the first year, 4,000 people died of hunger, disease and cold.Between August 20-24, 1942 the camp was closed, transporting the Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp: only 200 people survived.In the field of Kielce, about 2000 people remained, with the task of inventorying all the assets seized from the Jews, the children between 1 and 4 years were killed on the spot, the women hanged. Particular attention was paid to eliminating all evidence and the Nazis declared Kielce Judenfrei.
Mark Edelman:
Kielce was not an isolated case. There was tension. The Jews returned from Russia, someone wanted to return to their home. A good slice of the Polish population had taken a step forward, occupying apartments and shops. Many of those things that the Jews had left to the Poles had become them. They were afraid to see someone come back one day who could ask them back. In lòdz I had a friend, Fiszkr, a tailor from Lubino returned to Poland with the Red Army. He was not an important character. I had an appointment with him that afternoon. When I arrived, he was lying in the bathtub: he was shot in the back of the head while he was washing his hands as soon as he got back to work. The Jews were let down by trains in the woods and killed. They were actions of the extreme right-wing partisans. There were people who said that Hitler had not finished the work, because they were still Jews. That the Jews wanted to take over Poland ...
The Guardian. Marek Edelman tells
Rudi Assuntino, Wlodek Goldkorn
Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo
In 1946 in Kielce there were 173 Jews who lived in two houses.
Has there been collective removal or not?
In an interview with Deutschlandradio Kultur, the historian Jörg Baberowski
of the Humboldt University of Berlin points the finger at "collective removal"
of anti-Semitism in Poland. The Catholic Church and the Communist Party "are
always presented as the real opponents of Nazism, for which only the Germans
they would be responsible for the extermination "
https://www.osservatorioantisemitismo.it/articoli/1946-massacro-antisemita-di-kielce-in-polonia/
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| Czelaw Kaczmrek |
According to the bishop of Kielce, Czelaw Kaczmrek, the pogrom was to blame for the Jews who collaborated with the communist regime.
After the pogrom of Kielce (4 July 1946),Czelaw Kaczmrek appointed a commission to examine his circumstances. The chair of the commission was taken over by the priest prof. Mieczysław Żywczyński. The results of the commission became one of the foundations of the report drawn up on 1 September 1946, which Kaczmarek submitted to the American ambassador.
the final report
The facts of Kielce, regardless of their background, regardless of the fact that they were provoked, regardless of the fact that the government could, but did not want to avoid them were. However, it is a crime that left a stain on Polish society. It was known that the enemy minds of Poland would attempt to attack it for this reason. Any Polish government that is honest, like any other government in the world, would consider it a duty to try to represent the facts of Kielce in the most conscientious manner, reporting all extenuating circumstances, because undoubtedly there were: after all, a kitsch killer and not professional criminals ……
Acting under the effect of an emotion, always decreases the guilt especially when the criminal is only one in a crowd of criminals, when it is from this same crowd excited in a sense encouraged.
The conclusion of the final report
The analysis of the events and the depositions of the witnesses bring us to the following conclusions. As a result of the communist activity of the Jews, a hatred was created for them by the broad masses in Poland. It was not the real cases of death of children in Kielce, attributed to the Jews to provoke him, but they have increased it considerably. Of this they decided to use some Jewish communist agents, in concert with the security office they direct, to provoke a pogrom that would then lend itself to being touted as proof of the need for Jews to emigrate to their country, as proof of The fact is that Polish society reigns as anti-Semitism and fascism, and finally as proof of the reactionary nature of the Church, of which the killers were members.
THE POGROM
On 1 July 1946 Henryk Blaszczyk, 8, disappeared from Kielce; two days later he returns home explaining that he managed to escape from onebuilding inhabited by Jews in Planty 7 street, who were going to kill him to knead the blood.
As an old man Blaszczyk will confess that his story was pure charade.
And yet the recourse to the accusation of a thousand-year-old blood unleashes the fury of his fellow citizens. Communist militiamen enter the building"Of the kidnapping", they disarm and shoot 17 among the Jews present. The others, given to the escape, they are lynched by the crowd, supported by a group of miners providentially appeared to give a hand. The law enforcement agencies remain a look: at the end of the day there are 42 Jews killed and 80 wounded.
The facts of Kielce they pushed many of the last Polish Jews to emigrate forever. Today the Jewish community has 4,000 people. Before the Second World War they represented 20% of the population with 3 million people.
FINAL REFLECTION
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| Gustav Herling |
No Jews remained after the pogrom in Kielke.
From 8 to 13 May 1991 the Polish writer Gustav Herling, who emigrated to Naples Torno after 50 years to visit his original homeland Kielce is of Jewish origin wanted to go to that building in Via Planty at 7 and wrote in his diary:
"Whatever is said about this pogrom, whether there was a provocation by the Polish or Soviet security apparatuses, it does not explain the speed and ease with which the spark of provocation stoked fire. The earth seemed to wait for nothing but that spark. "
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| On the initiative of Lech Walesa |
Ther Polish Minister of Education Anna Zalewska has downgraded to "opinions"Polish responsibilities in the pogrom of Kielce and in the terrible one of Jedwabne del 1941 (340 Jews were burned alive in a barn)
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| Anna Zalewska |
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