בין שחרור לבריחה

בספר עדויות של ניצולי שואה, עלילותיהם של מארגני הבריחה מפולין ופועלם של הצדדים השונים שהיו מעורבים בבריחה. ; Many of the Jews who left Poland after World War II emigrated because of local antisemitism, expressed in the Kielce pogrom of July 1946, widespread violence against Jews, blood libels, and threats of ostracism and death. From the liberation until mid-1947, ca. 1,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were killed by Poles, some by their former neighbors. The struggle for political power in 1946 turned the Jews into scapegoats, and many were killed by anti-communists. Despite official condemnation of the murders, the Jews lived in constant fear, especially in the provinces, and some even remained in hiding. Those who had hoped to rehabilitate themselves in Poland realized, especially after the Kielce pogrom, that deep-rooted antisemitism would prevent their assimilation in Polish society. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)