A historian's study of the wave of anti-Jewish violence that met Holocaust survivors returning to Poland after 1945, centered on the 4 July 1946 Kielce pogrom, its blood libel pretext, and the swift trial and executions that followed. Draws on trial records, contemporary press accounts and Polish state archives to argue the postwar violence was not marginal but symptomatic of wider Polish antisemitism.
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Reliability TierA widely reviewed academic history by a professor of history at Princeton, built from trial records and archival sources; the book's central arguments were also contested by Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, which this atlas names alongside the book's own findings rather than treating either as uncontested. Citation
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This source names Poland directly: "met Holocaust survivors returning to Poland after 1945, centered on the 4 July 1946 Kielce pogrom, its blood libel pretext, and the swift trial and executions that followed."
Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
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1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
Claims Backed By This Source (30 claims)
This source backs 30 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 5 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Wars & Conflicts, 16 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 3 connected, 1 general references.
- Articles, 14 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.
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