Ja, antisemitismen verkar ligga djupt inbäddad i den polska folksjälen. Och kommunismen kunde inte utrota den heller.
Strax efter andra världskriget var knappast de flesta polacker kommunister heller. Många hade hjälpt tyskarna med att döda judar. De överlevande judarna möttes inte heller med någon solidaritet. Tvärtom fortsatte man att förfölja dem. De polacker som hjälpt judar att överleva under kriget bad dem att hålla tyst om det. Annars riskerade räddarna att bli hånade av sina grannar som "judeälskare" och själva förföljda. Recension av Jan T. Gross’s bok,
Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After AuschwitzOne might have thought that if anything could have cured Poland of its anti-Semitism, it was World War II. Polish Jews and Christians were bonded, as never before, by unimaginable suffering at the hands of a common foe. One might also have thought there’d have been pity for the Jewish survivors, most of whom had lost nearly everything: their homes, their youth, their hope, their entire families. Besides, there were so few of them left to hate: only 200,000 or so in a population of 20 million.
Instead, returning Polish Jews encountered an anti-Semitism of terrible fury and brutality. Small wonder, then, that nearly as soon as they set foot on Polish soil, most fled all over again. Many went westward, to a place that, oddly enough, had suddenly become an oasis of tranquillity and safety by comparison: Germany. Far from being celebrated, those Poles who had sheltered Jews during the war — and there were many — begged them to say nothing, lest their neighbors deride them as “Jew lovers,” or beat them, or break into their homes (searching for the money the Jews had surely left behind) or kill them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/books ... ml?mcubz=0De polacker som flydde från Polen, flydde just till det av de allierade ockuperade Tyskland. Ca 250.000 flydde dit. Tyskland (iaf Västtyskland) tvingades göra upp med sitt förflutna. Det gjorde aldrig Polen, de såg väl sig själva som offer och hjältar pga kriget.
Finns en bok om flykten till Tyskland:
Safe Among the Germans: Liberated Jews After World War II av Ruth Gay.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/books ... ml?mcubz=3