A community under pressure: Jews in Poland, 1957-1967

"It is our view that each Polish citizen should have only one fatherland - People's Poland...we do not want a fifth column to emerge in our country" This statement was made by Gromulka on June 1967, a few days after Israel's victory in the Six-Day War. Only a spark was needed for the government to yield to the documentation prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MSW) with an antisemitic bias in the years preceding the events of 1968. The aim of this article is to explore the atmosphere surrounding the Jewish minority in Poland in the years preceding the events of 1968.