In this article, I will take a fresh look at the allegedly universal belief in the immediate post-war period that the Jews had no future in post-Holocaust Poland. While providing new analysis of reports from Poland in 1946 that were written by Jewish travellers from United States, Western Europe and Palestine, my revisionist goal is to problematize and question the concept of the ‘Holocaust aftermath.’ I seek to demonstrate that the widespread view of post-war Poland as the cemetery of Polish-Jewish civilization in the immediate post-war period did not – contrary to common perceptions today – necessarily lead to the conclusion that the subsequent marginalization of Polish Holocaust survivors and their departure from Poland was inevitable. This logic of inevitability crystallized only over the course of a couple of years. From 1946 to at least the intensification of the Communist dictatorship in 1948–49, such logic was matched by ambivalence and the cautious belief that a collective Jewish life, centred on national expressions of Jewish identity, was still feasible in Poland.

在本文中，我将重新审视据称在战后不久的普遍信念，即犹太人在大屠杀后的波兰没有未来。在对 1946 年由来自美国、西欧和巴勒斯坦的犹太旅行者撰写的波兰报告进行新的分析时，我的修正主义目标是对“大屠杀后果”的概念提出质疑和质疑。我试图证明，战后波兰被广泛认为是战后时期波兰犹太文明的墓地——与今天的普遍看法相反——并没有必然导致波兰大屠杀幸存者随后被边缘化的结论。他们离开波兰是不可避免的。这种必然性的逻辑只是在几年的时间里才形成。