Polish President Andrzej Duda has led commemorations to honor the victims of a post-war massacre of Jews in the city of Kielce, south of Warsaw. Duda used the pogrom's 70th anniversary to condemn all forms of racism. [...]
At least 42 Polish Holocaust survivors were bludgeoned to death and dozens more were injured in the Kielce pogrom. According to the Washington-based United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it constituted the worst anti-Semitic attack in postwar Poland. [...]
In the past, leading members of Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party, including Duda, have made contradictory statements on matters of prejudice and xenophobia. The conservative party took a strong anti-migrant stance during the election campaign that saw them clinch power late last year. During that time, party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski accused refugees of carrying "parasites and protozoa" to Europe. In recent months, however, both Duda and Kaczynski have strongly condemned xenophobia and anti-Semitism at a number of events.
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