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Article: HIGH HOLIDAYS FEATURE (11): Poles begin to come to terms with history
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- August 18, 1996
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Ruth E. Gruber
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
08-18-1996
HIGH HOLIDAYS FEATURE (11): Poles begin to come to terms with history of. anti-Semitism
By Ruth E. Gruber
WARSAW, Aug. 26 (JTA) -- A ceremony in the southern Polish city of Kielce in July represented a major step in a painful process: the growing recognition by Poles of the extent that recent Polish history was marred by anti-Semitism.
The highly publicized ceremony commemorated the 50th anniversary of a postwar pogrom during which a Polish mob, inflamed by anti-Semitism, killed 42 Jewish Holocaust survivors.
The ceremony, which was attended by government officials, church and Jewish leaders, local dignitaries, Holocaust survivors from Kielce ...
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