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Their departure was hastened by the destruction of Jewish institutions, post-war anti-Jewish violence, and the hostility of the Communist Party to both religion and private enterprise, but also because in 1946–1947 Poland was the only Eastern Bloc country to allow free Jewish aliyah to Israel, [28] without visas or exit permits.
Berek Joselewicz, Polish-Jewish Colonel in the Polish Legions of Napoleon's armies Bernard Mond , member of the Austrio—Hungarian Army, 1914–1918; Polish soldier and officer, 1918–1939; sent to POW camp by the Germans; finished his career in the rank of Brigade General and, in command of the 6th Infantry Division (Poland) , fought against ...
The greatest increase in Jewish numbers occurred in the 18th century, when Jews came to make up 7% of the Polish population. 1453 – Casimir IV of Poland ratifies again the General Charter of Jewish Liberties in Poland. 1500 – Some of the Jews expelled from Spain, Portugal and many German cities move to Poland.
Following the establishment of the Second Polish Republic after World War I and during the interwar period, the number of Jews in the country grew rapidly. According to the Polish national census of 1921, there were 2,845,364 Jews living in the Second Polish Republic; by late 1938 that number had grown by over 16 percent, to approximately 3,310,000, mainly through migration from Ukraine and ...
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 ...
Polish people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent (5 P) Pages in category "Polish people of Jewish descent" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.
Ładoś Group, Bernese Group (Polish: grupa berneńska or grupa Ładosia, French: groupe bernois) is a name given to a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists who during Second World War elaborated in Switzerland a system of illegal production of Latin American passports aimed at saving European Jews from the Holocaust.
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