Poland: "Poles didn’t do this, it was provocation by the Communists"

Via Times of Israel:

At least 42 Jews were killed and over 40 injured in the worst anti-Semitic attack in postwar Poland, according to the Washington-based United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The pogrom went down as one of the darkest moments in the thousand-year-long history of Polish Jews.

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Nine people were sentenced to death for their role in the killings, but the Communist authorities of the time tried to blame regime opponents for the crime.

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Years later, the massacre is still a favorite of conspiracy theorists, with the far right refusing to accept that Poles were responsible.

“I would remove this, it’s a lie,” a man in his forties tells Bialek, pointing at a plaque commemorating “anti-Semitic unrest” on the white facade of the building at 7/9 Planty Street.

“Poles didn’t do this, it was provocation by the Communists to show that Poles are anti-Semitic,” he said.

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