Kielce Pogrom Facts Kakolewski

Umarly Cmentarz, by Krzysztof Kąkolewski. 2008

Kielce Pogrom Coverup, Secrecy, and Long-Term Tool in Propaganda Against Poland

THE CEMETERY THAT DIED is the English-language translation of this Polish-language book (review based on the 2004 edition). The title refers to a cemetery in Kielce, where Jewish and Polish victims of Nazism and Communism are interred, and which had been profaned by the Communist authorities as recently as the 1980’s. (pp. 229-230).

NO ANTI-SEMITIC DISEASE: POLISH NAZI-COLLABORATORS AGAINST JEWS EFFORTLESSLY BECAME SOVIET-COLLABORATORS AGAINST OTHER POLES

Although it preached egalitarianism and had a disproportionate Jewish membership, Russian Communism had always been essentially anti-Semitic, and this is what was forcibly exported to Poland in 1944, eventually leading to the Kielce Pogrom. Socially-marginal Poles and some members of the village lumpenproletariat, who had earlier been involved in expropriating Jewish properties, blackmailing and denouncing both Jews and Poles to the Nazis, etc., were glad that the London government hadn’t returned, and now found a new home in the Communist police (UB, or Bezpieka)(pp. 61-63). Kielce UB Commander Spychaj-Sobczynski had a similar recent history. (pp. 44-48; 125-126). Jews in the UB were commonly Russian and Ukrainian in origin, with extreme contempt for Poland. (p. 56).

RUSSIAN PROVOCATIONS OLD AND NEW

Kakolewski points out that the Communist police (NKVD and UB) had inherited the tactics of the tsarist police (Okhrana)(pp. 68-71). Staged anti-Jewish provocations (e. g., Mendel Beilis) often began with some version of the blood libel. Most Poles knew enough about the Jewish religion to realize that it abhors the very notion of consumption of blood. (p. 71). [I fully concur. Having talked to numerous elderly Poles who had remembered the Jews from before WWII, I have yet to meet a single one who believes in the blood-containing matzo.]

The Kielce Pogrom itself is described as a Communist-police riot. The heavily-armed UB entered the building, killed the Jews, and then threw them out the windows to be finished off by “the mob” (actually, by other UB members: p. 181). The actual crowd at Kielce consisted of 100-300 persons, not the 30,000-70,000 canard told by the Warsaw authorities to the American press (p. 168)(and recently revived by Jan T. Gross in his FEAR).

MANIPULATED TESTIMONIES AND THE KIELCE POGROM

Some individuals speak, with difficulty even today, of having been tortured into giving false testimonies. (p. 26). Widows of those executed after the hasty sham trial, interviewed by Kakolewski, testify that their husbands couldn’t even possibly have been involved in the Kielce crimes. (pp. 197-199). No one in Kielce can identify a single actual murderer! (p. 28, 185, 189).

Henryk Blaszczyk, the onetime “kidnapped boy”, reported that he and his parents were threatened with death if they ever discussed Kielce. (pp. 96-97). Wiktor Kuznicki, a Kielce UB insider beginning to divulge the staged nature of the pogrom, was arrested, imprisoned, and tortured by the UB. (pp. 155-157).

BURNING THE ARCHIVES TO HIDE THE EVIDENCE

The plot thickens. A fire (Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 1988) which destroyed the relevant Kielce archives burned, according to eyewitnesses, for 2-3 hours before the fire department was called. (pp. 21-23). Then firefighters were hindered, and there was an explosion near the fire (Combustion gases? Or an accelerant-filled container?).

THE OLD COMMUNIST KIELCE PROPAGANDA TRICK IS NOW OWNED BY THE JEWISH ACCUSERS OF POLAND

Kakolewski concludes that the Soviet stunt intended to defame Poland succeeded beyond the wildest expectations. It certainly did. Will we ever live to see the day that the western media outgrows its anti-Polish spin on the Kielce Pogrom, and faces up to the manifold evidences of Soviet staging? Fat chance.