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TheMiskolcpogrom led to death of one accusedJewishblack marketeer, the wounding of another, and subsequently the death of a Jewish policeman inMiskolc, Hungary, July 30 and August 1, 1946. Economic hardship andanti-Semitism motivated the riots.
Lieutenant GeneralLászló Piros[1] participated in the riots.
Blood libel rumors had led to violence inKunmadaras andTeplicany, and were present in Miskolc before the riot.Mátyás Rákosi had given a speech in Miskolc some days before the riot attacking "speculators" and suggesting death for them. Reports (likely from the police) circulated of the arrest of three black marketeers, two of them Jewish. The prisoners were to be moved to aninternment camp on the morning of the 31st. A mob awaited them, displaying signs with slogans like "Death to the Jews" and "Death to the Black Marketeers." The mob attacked. One man was murdered, another beaten severely, and a third (not Jewish) escaped.That afternoon, police appeared in force and arrested sixteen people for the lynching. The crowd attacked the police, occupied the police station, and murdered a Jewish policeman.[2]
Hungarian Communist Party propaganda at the time featured posters and brochures denouncing "speculators" depicted with images ofJewish caricatures; likely this was to deflect public grievances about hyperinflation and otherwise poor economic conditions.[2]
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