Easter pogrom
"In the academic church of St. Anne, the tomb of Christ: a broken cross, an atmosphere of terror, fire illuminates the scene of agony. The pious people watch with heartache – while on those same days, young people, driven by the lust for robbery or fear, listening to the whispers of the 'huzia for Jews,' lay in wait for easy, hiding victims of a double brutality," wrote the writer Aurelia Wyleżyńska in her diary, describing Easter in 1940. From Good Friday, which in 1940 fell on March 22, […]