The popular Catholic nationalist radio station Radio Maryja is
still the most influential source of anti-Semitic propaganda in
Poland. Outright Holocaust denial, which appeared for the first
time in a book by the historian Dariusz Ratajczyk, was also
propagated by the well-known historian Ryszard Bender. Vandalism
and desecration of Jewish sites continued in 1999. THE JEWISH
COMMUNITY On the eve of the Holocaust, Poland was home to 3.25
million Jews, of whom some 85 percent perished. The remnant of
the community was later depleted in the waves of emigration that
followed the Kielce pogrom in 1946, the relaxation of emigration
restrictions in 1956-57, and finally, the communist witch-hunt
against persons of Jewish origin in 1968. In the years leading
up to the collapse of communism, and especially in its
aftermath, the Jewish community has revived, its numbers
bolstered by young people rediscovering their Jewish roots.
There are some 5-10,000 Jews in Poland out of a total population
of close to 40 million. Mos