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

1. Report of Miskolc Outbreak Says Fascist Mob Utilized Workers Protest Against Profiteers
2. Péter Apor, "The Lost Deportations and the Lost People of Kunmadaras: A Pogrom in Hungary, 1946", Hungarian Historical Review 2, no. 3 (2013): 566–604

• 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.