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Fear - Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz is a book by Jan T. Gross. It was published by Random House in 2006.
Chapter 1: Poland Abandoned
In his first chapter, Gross lays out the horrors Poland suffered during WWII: The initial division of the country between Stalin and Hitler, the subsequent Nazi conquest, the horror of the Katyn massacre of Polish army officers by the Soviets, the Warsaw uprising of 1944 and the Soviet decision to postpone entering Warsaw until the German army had defeated the Polish Armia Krajowa, the destruction of Warsaw, reduced, "to a pile of rubble," and the abandonment of Poland by Britain and America at the Yalta Conference.
Chapter Two: The Unwelcoming of Jewish Survivors
Gross describes a situation in which the homes, property and businesses owned by Poland's Jews had been taken over by their neighbors with the result that Jews returning to their former homes in the hope of finding their relatives and rebuilding their lives were warned that they would be wise to leave and, in many cases, murdered. Property belonging to the Jewish community, including not only synagogues, but office buildings and schools, became the property of local governments which could continue in possession only if no Jewish community was reestablished.
Chapters 3 and 4 describe the Kielce Pogrom
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