To the editors:
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But, when some of the Catholic clergy preaches in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that: “To kill a Jew is not a sin” which too often was heard on Christian Holidays in Poland, prior to and during the infamous pogrom on Jews in the Polish city of Kielce on July 4, 1946, who is to be held more responsible? The peasants with the help of the local police? Or the Clergy who instigated and created the murder environment?
I think that the subject of Polish Anti-Semitism merits a deeper analysis, since it relates of all the places to the New Testament, namely: King James Bible. Gospel according to Saint Matthew 10, 21, Jesus said: “And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.”
The slaughter of Jewish survivors in Kielce and elsewhere took place on the 170th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. It was on this anniversary of American liberty that the self-styled Polish patriots of the underground National Armed Forces with the complicity of the local church perpetrated the Kielce massacre, aimed to embarrass the new pro Soviet government. They slaughtered men, women, children and new born babies, by the hundreds.
The Polish king Kazimir the Great invited Jews to bring commerce, industry and civilization. Poland paid back with persecution, pogroms and complicity in the Holocaust, of which they have nothing to be proud of, only disgrace.
