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January 4, 2023

A New Film Documents Communist Poland’s Expulsion of Its Jews

March 1968.

Most European countries expelled their Jews at some point, usually between the 13th and 16th centuries. But Poland remained one of the most notable exceptions up until 1968, when the Six-Day War, tensions within the Communist party, and student unrest combined to lead the country’s rulers to inaugurate an “anti-Zionist” campaign. No formal edict of expulsion was ever issued, but more than half of the Jewish population left Poland by 1970. Tom Sawicki reviews a recent Polish film, March 1968, depicting these events:

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