WARSAW, Poland, July 4 (UPI) -- Polish authorities Tuesday unveiled a monument to 39 Jews killed in a massacre 60 years ago, one year after the end of World War II.
A ceremony commemorated the anti-Semitic pogrom of the Jews, killed by a mob of several hundred Poles in the country's central town of Kielce on July 4, 1946, Polonia Radio reported.
The mob raided a house inhabited by the Jewish survivors of the holocaust after rumors circulated that a Jewish family planned to kidnap and kill a Polish child.
However, the motive for the massacre has never been fully clarified, the radio said.
About 90 percent of Poland's 3.5 million Jews were killed by the Nazi Germans during World War II, the BBC said.
The Kielce pogrom forced many of Poland's 250,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust to flee the country.
