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When the slim percentage of Polish Jewry that survived the Holocaust returned home from the ghettos and concentration camps, they were not readily accepted back into the folds of Polish society. “They were physically present but socially absent,” Polish historian Lukasz Krzyzanowski tells The Times of Israel via Zoom call from his book-lined study in Warsaw. “Polish Jews after the war felt alone and socially isolated because there was no compassion or empathy forthcoming from their [non-Jewish] Polish compatriots.” In his book, “Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return to a Postwar City,” Kr...

A man moving into the Radom ghetto assisted by a Polish carter. (Courtesy Łukasz Biedka) Survivors visit the Radom Jewish cemetery in late summer or autumn of 1945. (Courtesy Barbara Fundowicz-Towarek) Open- air market on Wałowa Street in the Radom ghetto, between April 1941 and August 1942. (Courtesy Łukasz Biedka) Farmers market on Wałowa Street in the heart of the Jewish neighborhood before World War II. In the spring of 1941, the street became a main artery of the large Radom ghetto. (Courtesy Chris Webb) Main entrance to the large ghetto in Radom. On the right, an officer of the Poli...