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At the start of the Second World War, Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world (over 3.3 million, some 10% of the general Polish population). [7] The vast majority were murdered under the Nazi " Final Solution " mass-extermination program in the Holocaust in Poland during the German occupation; only 369,000 (11%) of Poland's Jews ...
The Polish government condemned wanton violence against the Jewish minority, fearing international repercussions, but shared the view that the Jewish minority hindered Poland's development; in January 1937 Foreign Minister Józef Beck declared that Poland could house 500,000 Jews, and hoped that over the next 30 years 80,000–100,000 Jews a ...
After Poland regained independence in 1918, the Second Polish Republic had a large Jewish minority.The early Polish Army was formed in the aftermath of World War I mostly from ethnic Polish volunteers, but as the situation stabilized and the country enforced regular conscriptions, the number of soldiers in the Polish Army from various ethnic minorities, including Jewish, increased.
Part of a series on the History of Jews and Judaism in Poland Historical Timeline • List of Jews Early history 18th century 19th century 20th century 1989–present Groups Orthodox Polish-Ashkenazim Musar movement Hasidim Aleksander Biala Bluzhev Bobov Ger Izhbitza-Radzin Kotzk Lelov Peshischa Radomsk Sanz Sochatchov Vurka Zionist Betar Brit HaHayal Poale Zion Komverband HeHalutz Lovers of ...
Polish-Jewish diaspora (5 C, 12 P) R. Polish Reform Jews (1 C, 3 P) S. Polish Sephardi Jews (5 P) Silesian Jews (89 P) V. Volhynian Jews (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category ...
New directions in the history of the Jews in the Polish lands. Academic Studies Press and by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. ISBN 978-83-949149-0-5. OCLC 1005199886. Schatz, Jaff (1991). The generation : the rise and fall of the Jewish communists of Poland. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-07136-0. OCLC 22984393.
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Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–1946; POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; List of Polish Righteous Among the Nations; Polish Righteous Among the Nations; Polish Synagogue; Ponary massacre; Prussian deportations