13,000 Jews were driven out of Poland in 1968, some are returning to tell their story

Sanatate

In March 1968, Rachelle Halpern walked into her university in Szczecin, Poland, and found a group of her classmates gathered around a newspaper. She asked what they were reading about. The answer came: “Zionists.”Halpern didn't understand. Who were the Zionists? One classmate said, “The Jews.”“But I'm a Jew,” said Halpern. Her classmates looked at her in disbelief. She couldn't be, one said. She had no horns.Halpern was about to be swept up in a spiral of social and political crises in