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Article: Kielce's pogrom: The last blood libel in Poland
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- Jerusalem Post
- Article date:
- July 4, 1996
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LEO COOPER
Jerusalem Post
07-04-1996
TODAY marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous pogrom in the Polish city of Kielce. The pogrom, in which thousands of ordinary people took to the streets and massacred their neighbors on the charge that the latter were guilty of ritual murder, was a result of a blood-libel accusation against the Jews. The pogrom's anniversary is by and large ignored in Poland.
Ritual murder charges against Jews are a frequent occurrence in Polish history. The first anti-Jewish pogrom caused by ritual murder accusations after Poland's liberation from the Nazis occurred in August 1945.
Leaflets on the streets of Cracow proclaimed: "The Jews are our eternal enemies. They ...
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