Local residents and members of Polish security forces attacked surviving and returning Jews in Kielce; 42 Jews were killed. The pogrom drew on entrenched antisemitism and blood-libel allegations and...
Industrial workers demonstrated over wages, food shortages, and working conditions. Polish security forces crushed the protests, and the unrest revealed popular opposition within the Soviet bloc as...
During a strike against martial law, Polish security forces shot miners at the Wujek coal mine, killing nine. The killings expose the coercion used by the Polish state to suppress worker resistance.
