Poland refuses to confront its 1968 antisemitic pogrom against Jews

History does not make appointments, it just happens. Fifty-four years ago, the venom of antisemitism was unleashed against Poland’s all but last 15,000 Jews, among them my parents and grandparents, who were forced to leave the country, terrorized, broken and excommunicated for no other reason than being Jewish.

The antisemitic state-sponsored pogrom in March 1968, initiated by the then-communist Polish government, led to the forced exodus of renowned figures in the arts and sciences, less than a quarter of a century after the Holocaust.

Following Israel’s victory in the Six Day War with its Arab neighbors, Warsaw Pact member states, with the exception of Romania, broke their diplomatic ties with Israel. The developments in Poland soon took a more dramatic course. In response to the war, Władysław Gomułka, the first secretary of the governing Polish United Workers’ Party, began a bigoted campaign against Polish Jews.

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