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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southeast-central Poland south of Warsaw. Founded c. 1173, it was controlled by Austria (from 1795) and Russia (from 1815) before reverting to Poland in 1919.

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Examples

  • Germany was no place to return to and in Kielce, Poland, 40 Jews who survived the Holocaust were killed in a pogrom one year after the war ended.

    What If Jews Had Followed the Palestinian Path? Warren Kozak 2011

  • Germany was no place to return to and in Kielce, Poland, 40 Jews who survived the Holocaust were killed in a pogrom one year after the war ended.

    What If Jews Had Followed the Palestinian Path? Warren Kozak 2011

  • From early childhood she was a member of the Zionist-Socialist youth movement Freiheit (Freedom), which sent her to the Kielce kibbutz.

    Zivia Lubetkin. 2009

  • In 1923 Kalish kidnapped her daughter from the Kielce home of her husband and in-laws and left for Berlin (the Warsaw rabbinical court eventually awarded her custody of the daughter), where she continued to work for HIAS and also took courses in German literature and x-ray technology.

    Ita Kalish. 2009

  • Living off his savings for a year while his wife works as a dentist in Kielce, Mr. Stawicki says he'll look for like-minded people to form a political party and work to entice yet more Poles to come home.

    Eastward Bound 2008

  • Those who managed to return "home" were often met by anti-semitic violence, such as the pogrom at Kielce in Poland, where several hundred Jews were murdered in 1946.

    Love and Rage Electronic Edition Part 4 1993

  • Among other things, he gave prominence to the Kielce pogrom of July 1946, without explaining the political context of the referendum, and lent support to Dr. Dobroszycki's (entirely credible) estimate of the 1,500 Polish Jews who were killed in the period 1944 – 1947.

    Poles and Jews: An Exchange Brumberg, Abraham 1987

  • In his lengthy comment on the shocking Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946, Brumberg completely ignores the timely provocation of the pogrom just five days after the fraudulent referendum.

    Poland and the Jews: An Exchange Switalski, John 1983

  • But on 15th January, OKW (either Hitler or Jodl) had interfered and sent a message from Zieg - enberg, ordering that Saucken be sent down to Kielce (a dis - tance of some 150 miles, involving a flank "march" over the Partisan-infested Polish railway system).

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • Over a seventy-mile stretch between the Narew curve and Kielce the German front had been blown to pieces, and with the exception of the debris of the 46th Panzer Corps there were no mobile forces with which to delay their progress.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

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