Vengeance for the Jewish Victory

HERSH SMOLAR, a native of Poland and a much-decorated Resistance hero, was head of the Minsk ghetto underground during World War II and a member of the high command of an entire Partisan zone comprising four brigades. After the war he returned to Poland and became one of the leaders of the Jewish community and editor-in-chief of the Yiddish newspaper Folks-Shtimme (“People’s Voice”). With the outbreak of anti-Semitism in Poland in 1967, he was removed from both post...