Kunmadaras pogrom

The Kunmadaras pogrom was a post-World War II anti-Semitic pogrom in Kunmadaras, Hungary.

The program resulted in the killing of two and wounding of fifteen Jews on 22 May 1946. According to JTA four Jews eventually died.^[1]

The riot started in the marketplace as a spontaneous protest against a suspected profiteer. Since traditional occupation of the Jews in the area was trading, the image of a profiteer was conflated with that of a Jew. Therefore the riot grew into an anti-Jewish pogrom. The frenzy was further instigated by the rumors that the Jews are stealing Christian children. The historian Péter Apor made a peculiar observation about the subsequent trial of the pogromists:"The People's Tribunal managed to produce a narrative of an anti-Semitic pogrom without involving the Jewish victims." The pogrom was portrayed as a resurgence of fascism pitched against the nascent people's democracy.^[2]

See also

• Anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe, 1944–1946

References

• Anti-Semitism in post WW II Hungary
• John Carroll University, AHEA Conference, 9-11 April 1999

Further reading

• Randolph L. Braham, Brewster S. Chamberlin (2004). Holocaust in Hungary: Sixty Years Later. Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. pp. 167, 189. ISBN 0-88033-576-9.