A Dreamed Appropriation: The Plunder of Jewish Property during the Anti-Semitic Campaign of 1967–68
The wave of anti-Semitism unleashed in 1967–1968 was not limited to pervasive propaganda and various forms of harassment. It also engulfed the private property of thousands of Polish Jews who, emigrating to different parts of the world, were compelled to relinquish their material possessions or were dispossessed of them. The positions they vacated at their workplaces were likewise filled by others. Personal documents and interviews with Holocaust survivors and their children make it possible to examine yet another episode in the long history of the appropriation of Jewish property.
Piotr Forecki – political scientist, Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure. His research focuses on Polish memory of the Holocaust, anti-Jewish violence in postwar Poland, contemporary anti-Semitic rhetoric, and representations of the Holocaust in popular culture. Member of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland and the Polish Association for Yiddish Studies.
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Photo: Zbyszko Siemaszko, Warsaw, 1968. From the exhibition “Estranged: March ‘68 and Its Aftermath” at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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