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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Anti-Jewish Violence In Poland, 1944–1946 refers to a series of violent incidents in Poland that immediately followed the end of World War II in Europe and influenced the postwar history of the Jews as well as Polish-Jewish relations. The exact number of Jewish victims is a subject of debate, but the range is estimated as 1,000 to 2,000 (with 327 documented cases). Jews constituted between 2% and 3% of the total number of victims of postwar violence in the country, including the Polish Jews who managed to survive the Holocaust on territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union. The incidents ranged from individual attacks to pogroms. Partly as a result of this violence, but also because Poland was the only Eastern Bloc country to allow free Jewish aliyah to Mandate Palestine, the number of Jews on the territory of Poland changed dramatically in that period. Many Jews did not wish to remain in a place that reminded them of the Holocaust. Others aimed to pursue the Zionist objectives in Palestine. Uninterrupted traffic across the Polish borders intensified with many Jews passing through on their way to the West. In January 1946, there were 86,000 survivors registered with the Central Committee of Polish Jews (CKŻP). By the end of summer, the number had risen to about 205,000–210,000 (with 240,000 registrations and over 30,000 duplicates). About 180,000 Jewish refugees came from the Soviet Union after the repatriation agreement. Most left without visas or exit permits thanks to a decree of General Marian Spychalski. A group of 435 Jews returned from Palestine to Poland in 1946, believing that the latter was actually safer, wrote Gazeta Ludowa of the Polish People's Party (PSL) on October 1, 1946. By the spring of 1947 only 90,000 Jews resided in Poland.Reasons for violent deaths have been attributed to rampant and often indiscriminate postwar banditry as well as the raging anti-communist insurrection against the new pro-Soviet government, which cost the lives of tens of thousand of people on Polish lands. Among the Jewish victims of violence were numerous functionaries of the new Stalinist regime, assassinated by the anti-communist underground without racial motives, but simply due to their political loyalties. Jan T. Gross noted that "only a fraction of [the Jewish] deaths could be attributed to anti-semitism", and Jewish resistance fighter Marek Edelman said "murdering Jews was pure banditry, and I wouldn't explain it as anti-Semitism". But sometimes Jews were targeted due to their ethnicity, because of the pre-war and Nazi German propaganda, including the blood libel rumors. The resentment towards returning Jews among some local Poles included concerns that they would reclaim their property. They were sometimes seen as supporting the consolidation of power in the hands of the Soviet and Polish Stalinist regimes.. }

• Anti-Jewish_violence_in_Poland,_1944–46 abstract "Anti-Jewish Violence In Poland, 1944–1946 refers to a series of violent incidents in Poland that immediately followed the end of World War II in Europe and influenced the postwar history of the Jews as well as Polish-Jewish relations. The exact number of Jewish victims is a subject of debate, but the range is estimated as 1,000 to 2,000 (with 327 documented cases). Jews constituted between 2% and 3% of the total number of victims of postwar violence in the country, including the Polish Jews who managed to survive the Holocaust on territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union. The incidents ranged from individual attacks to pogroms. Partly as a result of this violence, but also because Poland was the only Eastern Bloc country to allow free Jewish aliyah to Mandate Palestine, the number of Jews on the territory of Poland changed dramatically in that period. Many Jews did not wish to remain in a place that reminded them of the Holocaust. Others aimed to pursue the Zionist objectives in Palestine. Uninterrupted traffic across the Polish borders intensified with many Jews passing through on their way to the West. In January 1946, there were 86,000 survivors registered with the Central Committee of Polish Jews (CKŻP). By the end of summer, the number had risen to about 205,000–210,000 (with 240,000 registrations and over 30,000 duplicates). About 180,000 Jewish refugees came from the Soviet Union after the repatriation agreement. Most left without visas or exit permits thanks to a decree of General Marian Spychalski. A group of 435 Jews returned from Palestine to Poland in 1946, believing that the latter was actually safer, wrote Gazeta Ludowa of the Polish People's Party (PSL) on October 1, 1946. By the spring of 1947 only 90,000 Jews resided in Poland.Reasons for violent deaths have been attributed to rampant and often indiscriminate postwar banditry as well as the raging anti-communist insurrection against the new pro-Soviet government, which cost the lives of tens of thousand of people on Polish lands. Among the Jewish victims of violence were numerous functionaries of the new Stalinist regime, assassinated by the anti-communist underground without racial motives, but simply due to their political loyalties. Jan T. Gross noted that "only a fraction of [the Jewish] deaths could be attributed to anti-semitism", and Jewish resistance fighter Marek Edelman said "murdering Jews was pure banditry, and I wouldn't explain it as anti-Semitism". But sometimes Jews were targeted due to their ethnicity, because of the pre-war and Nazi German propaganda, including the blood libel rumors. The resentment towards returning Jews among some local Poles included concerns that they would reclaim their property. They were sometimes seen as supporting the consolidation of power in the hands of the Soviet and Polish Stalinist regimes.".