Poles

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ethnic group nation

Poles are the ethnic and national group native to Poland, many of whom suffered persecution and mass murder under Nazi occupation during the Holocaust.

Aliases (4)

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ethnic group → nation →
countryOfOrigin	Poland →
diaspora	Argentina → Australia → Belarus → Brazil → Canada → France → Germany → Ukraine → United Kingdom → United States →
ethnicallyAssociatedWith	Poland →
ethnogenesisPeriod	Early Middle Ages →
formedResistance	Home Army → Polish Underground State →
historicalState	Kingdom of Poland → Polish People’s Republic → Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth → Second Polish Republic → Third Polish Republic →
language	Polish language →
majorReligion	Roman Catholicism →
nativeTo	Poland →
notableMinorityReligion	Eastern Orthodoxy → Protestantism →
partOf	Slavs → West Slavs →
persecutedDuring	German occupation of Poland → World War II →
populationCenter	Gdańsk → Kraków → Poznań → Warsaw → Wrocław → Łódź →
region	Central Europe →
relatedGroup	Czechs → Kashubians → Silesians → Slovaks →
uprising	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising → Warsaw Uprising →
victimOf	AB-Aktion → Holocaust → Intelligenzaktion → Katyn massacre → Nazi crimes against the Polish nation → Soviet repressions of Poles → ethnic cleansing in occupied Poland → forced labor under Nazi Germany → mass executions by Nazi Germany →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet →

Referenced by (104)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Aleksander Zawisza → Antoni Chruściel → Antoni Pająk → Austrian Silesia → Bolesław Bierut → Bór → Catherine Opalinska → Congress Poland → East Prussia → Eduard Rydz-Śmigły → Edward Gierek → Edward Szczepanik → Ewelina Hańska → Felix Dzerzhinsky → Franciszek Duszeńko → Henryk Sucharski → Jarosław Kaczyński → Johnny Ramone ("Polish American") → Joseph Conrad → Jędrzej Moraczewski → Kazimierz Sabbat → Konrad Krajewski → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Kresy → Marcin Zukowski → Maria Piłsudska → Marian Smoluchowski → Paweł Edmund Strzelecki → Podlasie → Polesia → Pope John Paul II → Province of Posen → Russian Partition of Poland → Second Polish Republic → Silesia → Stanislav Kosior → Stanisław Mikołajczyk → Stanisław Narutowicz → Stanisław Radkiewicz → Stanisław Wojciechowski → Stefan Banach → Tadeusz Kościuszko → Tadeusz Kutrzeba → Tadeusz Rozwadowski → Tomasz Arciszewski → Wanda Piłsudska → Wanda Wasilewska → West Prussia → Wincenty Witos → Władysław Anders → Władysław Bortnowski → Władysław Gomułka → Włodzimierz Steyer → Zofia Leśniowska →	ethnicGroup
Belzec → Holocaust → Holocaust ("Slavs") → Nazi war crimes → Treblinka →	victimGroup
Czechs → Slovaks → Sorbs → Ukrainians →	relatedEthnicGroup
Cieszyn Silesia → Leopold Okulicki → Volhynia →	hasEthnicGroup
Luck (Polish) → Wilno →	associatedWithEthnicGroup
GeneralplanOstPolicies →	aimedAt
Poland →	demonym
Silesia →	ethnicallyInhabitedBy
Polesie Voivodeship →	ethnicComposition
Spiš highlanders →	ethnicContext
Mazovia →	ethnicGroupHistoricallyDominant
Lachians →	ethnicGroupOf
District of Lublin →	ethnicGroupPersecuted
Vilna Governorate →	ethnicGroupsSignificant
District of Galicia →	ethnicGroupsTargeted
Mazovians →	ethnicSubgroupOf
Mazovians →	ethnolinguisticGroup
Western Ukraine →	hasMinority
Right-bank Ukraine →	hasSignificantMinority
European American ("Polish American") →	hasSubgroup
Western Belarus →	historicalEthnicGroup
Czech lands →	historicallyInhabitedBy
West Slavs →	includes
Slavic cultural sphere →	includesEthnicGroup
Polish–Ukrainian War →	involvesEthnicGroup
Mazovians ("Greater Poles") →	neighboringEthnicGroups
Old Prussians →	neighboringPeople
Mazovians ("Polish nation") →	partOf
LiberationOfAuschwitz →	perpetratedAgainst
General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland) →	populationGroupTargeted
West Ukrainian People’s Republic →	populationMinority
Eastern Poland →	preWarPopulationIncluded
Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland) →	primaryEthnicGroup
Plaszow concentration camp →	prisonerPopulationIncludes
Slavs →	secondLargestSlavicNation
West Slavs →	sharesCulturalTraditionsWith
Free City of Danzig →	significantMinority
Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz →	targetedGroup
NaziRacialPolicy →	targetsAsRacialEnemy
Wilno →	usedBy
Auschwitz-Birkenau →	victimGroups