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  2. History of the Jews in Poland - Wikipedia

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    In total these five cities had 766,272 Jews which was almost 25% of the total Jewish population of Poland. In cities and towns larger than 25,000 inhabitants there lived nearly 44% of Poland's Jews. The table below shows the Jewish population of Poland's cities and towns with over 25,000 inhabitants according to the 1931 census:

  3. History of the Jews in 20th-century Poland - Wikipedia

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    Jewish population in cities and towns of Poland with at least 25,000 inhabitants in 1931 City or town # Voivodeship City or town Total population Jews Non-Jews Percentage of Jews 1 Warsaw Voivodeship Warszawa: 1171898 352659 819239 30.1% 2 Łódź Voivodeship Łódź: 604629 202497 402132 33.5% 3 Lwów Voivodeship Lwów: 312231 99595 212636 31.9% 4

  4. Timeline of Jewish-Polish history - Wikipedia

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    1648 – Jewish population of Poland reaches 450,000 or 60% of the world Jewish population. In Bohemia Jews number 40,000 and in Moravia 25,000. ... 1930 – The ...

  5. History of Poland (1918–1939) - Wikipedia

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    As the Great Depression worsened in the 1930s, antisemitism began to rise even though Poland was home to over three million Jews (10 percent of Poland's population), the largest Jewish population in Europe at the time.

  6. 1931 Polish census - Wikipedia

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    Thus the number of Jews by mother tongue increased as a percentage of the population in the 1931 survey, relative to the number of Jews as a nationality in the 1921 Census. This situation created a difficulty in establishing the true number of ethnic non-Polish citizens of Poland.

  7. Second Polish Republic - Wikipedia

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    By 1931, Poland had the second largest Jewish population in the world, with one-fifth of all the world's Jews residing within its borders (approx. 3,136,000). [49] The urban population of interbellum Poland was rising steadily; in 1921, only 24% of Poles lived in the cities, in the late 1930s, that proportion grew to 30%.

  8. Historical Jewish population - Wikipedia

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    In the 16th and 17th centuries the main centers of Jewish population were in Poland and the Mediterranean countries, Spain excepted. [ 10 ] By the early 13th century, the world Jewish population had fallen to 2 million from a peak at 8 million during the 1st century, and possibly half this number, with only 250,000 of the 2 million living in ...

  9. Demographic history of Poland - Wikipedia

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    The population of Jews in Poland, which formed the largest Jewish community in pre-war Europe at about 3.3 million people, was all but destroyed by 1945. Approximately 3 million Jews died of starvation in ghettos and labor camps , were slaughtered at the German Nazi extermination camps or by the Einsatzgruppen death squads.