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1968
Poland
Antisemitism

Władysław Gomułka speech

Władysław Gomułka, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, delivered a two-hour speech in front of the party activists at Warsaw’s Congress Hall. Broadcast nationwide on radio and television, his address accused “Zionists” and intellectuals of disloyalty to the Polish state. Coming amid student protests and political unrest, the speech marked the public start of an antisemitic purge that reshaped Polish society.

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