people from every walk of life except the highest level of government officials in the city, wrote the indifference of the majority of Poles to the Jewish Holocaust combined with demands for the return of Jewish property confiscated during the Second World War created a climate of violence against Jews. Commemoration Following the fall of communism, several commemorative plaques were unveiled in Kielce. In 1990 the first plaque was unveiled following the involvement of then Polish president Lech Wałęsa. A monument by New York City-based artist Jack Sal entitled White/Wash II commemorating the victims was dedicated on 4 July 2006, in Kielce, on the 60th anniversary of the pogrom. At the dedication ceremony, a statement from the President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński condemned the events as a "crime and a great shame for the Poles and tragedy for the Polish Jews". The presidential statement asserted that in today's democratic Poland there is "no room for antisemitism" and brushed off any generalizations of the antisemitic image of the Polish nation as a stereotype. Another monument intended to be a representative grave for the victims, was unveiled in the city in 2010. See also Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–1946 Białystok pogrom Jedwabne pogrom Kielce pogrom (1918) Kraków pogrom Szczuczyn pogrom Tykocin pogrom Wąsosz pogrom From Hell to Hell, a 1997 Belarusian drama film about the Kielce pogrom References Sources External links The Jewish Pogrom in Kielce, July 1946, Jewish Virtual Library Case Study: The Pogrom in Kielce, The London School of Economics and Political Science by Anita J. Prazmowska Postwar Pogrom, The New York Times, 23 July 2006 1946 in Poland 1946 murders in Poland Massacres in 1946 Aftermath of the Holocaust Anti-Jewish violence in Central and Eastern Europe, 1944–1946 Blood libel 1946 riots Jewish Polish history Kielce Massacres in Poland Riots and civil disorder in Poland Antisemitism in Poland July 1946 events in Europe 1946 in Judaism