Mixed feelings on Poland. Even after WW2, Poland was not safe for Jews:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/07/AR2010060702583.html
One would think the anti-semitism in Europe ended after WW2 ended (or at least the mass killings of Jews), but that was not the case.
I posted this in response to another poster but it applies to your post ref the Kielce “pogrom.” It supports the theme I have identified,especially given all the dynamics in the discussion Polish-Jewish relations.
I believe the numbers are overblown.
According to Michael Checinski, a Jewish member of Polish Counter Intelligence (SMERSH) at the time, it was a provoked government (communist) event to create difficulties for the opposition (patriotic Polish Catholics)among Jewish circles in the US. It also forced Jews who decided to stay in Poland to become ardent supporters of the new regime for protection, and allowed the communist to accuse Poles and the Catholic church of antisemitism while posing as the “defenders of the remnants of Polish Jewry.”