A collection of interviews with several important party functionaries, some of them Jewish, active in Poland during the Stalinist period. Among those interviewed were Edward Ochab (first Secretary of the Communist Party), Stefan Staszewski, Wiktor Klosiewicz, and Jakub Berman. Touches on the "Jewish question" as a political problem and Jewish representation in the Communist Party as viewed by these functionaries during the Stalinist terror of the 1950s and the antisemitic campaign of 1968. On pp. 140-144, Staszewski quotes from his conversation with Khrushchev about Stalin's antisemitism and his plans to organize pogroms.

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