| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 26, 2018 | 7:30PM - 9:30PM | External Event, George Ignatieff Theatre 15 Devonshire Place |
March 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the so-called “March Events” in Poland, which saw unprecedented student protests and their brutal pacification. The communist government blamed the event on the Jewish community, which was accused of being the fifth column working against the national interests of Poland and its citizens. The accusations were followed by the dismissals of people of Jewish descent from their jobs or academic posts and, if they were students, from the institutions of higher learning. These reprisals resulted in mass emigration, encouraged by the political rulers, of the remnants of the Jewish community, those few thousand survivors of the Holocaust and their families. The emigrating members of the Jewish community were forced to renounce their Polish citizenship and leave the country stateless and in most cases with very few resources.
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