RAPORTY O ANTYSEMICKICH WYSTĄPIENIACH W POLSCE PO I WOJNIE ŚWIATOWEJ

The article presents sources concerning the situation of the Jewish community in Poland in the independence-formation period. The documents were most probably drawn up by the Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and sent to the Polish Mission in Rome. Illustrative reports from the activity of foreign commissions: the US commission led by Henry Morgenthau and the British commission led by Stewart M. Samuel (which investigated the reported cases of pogroms and the persecution of Jews for several months in 1919) as well as a report by Peter Wright, a member of the British commission, were published. The reports have a high educational and historical value, since they present a rather balanced approach, and conclude that there were no pogroms, that the poor situation of Jews resulted from the generally disastrous condition of our country, which was devastated by the war, and that their accusations against the Polish government had proved to be groundless. The published documents are an interesting picture of the situation of the Republic of Poland, which was experiencing a rebirth after 123 years.