The following e-mail was sent to the editor of the Washington Post by Frank Milewski, Chairman of the Holocaust Documentation Committee of the Polish American Congress, in response to Richard Cohen’s column, "Dear Helen: The Jews couldn’t go home" printed in June, 2010.

Dear Editor:

There’s more to the story Richard Cohen told when he wrote "The Jews couldn’t go home" in post-WWII Europe. His omissions border on negligence.

At the time of the 1946 Kielce pogrom, Poland and the other countries of Eastern Europe were under Russian Communist occupation and control. At least 15 other coordinated pogroms were also taking place throughout these Communist-dominated countries. There was a pattern to the madness.

Poland was under a reign of terror. The violence was anti-Polish as well as anti-Jewish.

U.S. Ambassador Arthur Lane was in Poland when the Kielce pogrom occurred. As a credible source, he pointed to the Communists as the ones responsible for it.

Frank Milewski, Chairman
Holocaust Documentation Committee
Polish American Congress
177 Kent St.
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11222