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Polish Society Shunned Jewish Survivors Returning from Death Camps
(Times of Israel) J.P. O'Malley - Polish historian Lukasz Krzyzanowski has written Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return to a Postwar City, focusing on the industrial city of Radom as a case study to tell the larger story of Jews in postwar Poland. He told the Times of Israel, "Anti-Semitism didn't suddenly appear in Poland with Hitler. There was a distance between the Polish Jewish and Christian populations before the war. But during the Holocaust this distance turned into a chasm, and it's stayed like this ever since." Radom Jews faced numerous threats in their daily life in the immediate postwar period. They were regularly confronted with theft, abuse and violence from Polish citizens. Anti-Semitism was rampant in the police and security services of Radom, and across Poland more broadly.