Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
Wave of emigration after October 1956
1956-1960·Pologne
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
local assaults and press campaign push survivors to leave
The survivors who remained in Poland after the war and after the pogrom of Kielce lived in a country where popular antisemitism had not disappeared. The political thaw of October freed public speech and, with it, a press campaign and a wave of rumors targeting Jews present in the apparatus of the State.
Local attacks occurred, families were driven from their towns, children were targeted at school. The authorities left the borders open for a time, and departures were organized toward Israel and Western Europe.
This wave, less well known than that of the anti-Zionist campaign of the late 1960s, reduced by half what remained of Polish Jewry, the largest in Europe before the war.
- Period :
- Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Encyclopaedia Judaica ; Dariusz Stola, *Kampania antysyjonistyczna w Polsce*.