Anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe, 1944–46

Anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe included anti-Jewish crimes in various countries that occurred after the retreat of the Nazi German forces and arrival of the Soviet Union Red Army forces.

Poland

Main article: Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–1946

Romania

Hundreds of returning Jews were allegedly killed in Romania.

Hungary

Anti-Jewish manifestations, sometimes based on blood libel accusations, took place in Hungary in a dozen of places, for example, in Kunmadaras (two or four dead victims) and Miskolc.

Slovakia

In Slovakia in Topoľčany 48 Jews were seriously injured. 13 anti-Jewish incidents called partisan pogroms took place 1–5 August 1946, the biggest one in Žilina, where 15 people were wounded.

Ukraine

In Kiev, Ukraine on September 4–7, 1945 around one hundred Jews were beaten, of whom thirty-six were hospitalized and five died of wounds.

Russia

In Rubtsovsk, Russia a number of anti-Semitic incidents took place in 1945.

Further reading

• Nehemiah Robinson (1956). European Jewry Ten Years After the War: An Account of the Development and Present Status of the Decimated Jewish Communities of Europe. New York: Institute of Jewish Affairs of the World Jewish Congress. p. 100. 
• State-sponsored Anti-Semitism in Postwar USSR. Studies and Research Perspectives by Antonella Salomoni