Polish Jews

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Polish Jews were the Jewish communities living in Poland who suffered devastating persecution and mass murder during the Holocaust under Nazi German occupation.


Statements (56)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish community
ethnic group
religious community
confinedIn Bialystok Ghetto NERFINISHED
Krakow Ghetto NERFINISHED
Lodz Ghetto NERFINISHED
Lublin Ghetto NERFINISHED
Warsaw Ghetto
countryOfOrigin Poland
estimatedVictimsDuringHolocaust about 3 million
experienced community annihilation
cultural destruction
property confiscation
widespread antisemitism
historicalLanguage Hebrew
knownFor Hasidic Judaism
Jewish literature
Jewish political movements
Jewish theater
yeshiva scholarship
mainLanguage Polish
Yiddish
murderedIn Auschwitz concentration camp NERFINISHED
Belzec extermination camp NERFINISHED
Chelmno extermination camp NERFINISHED
Majdanek concentration camp NERFINISHED
Sobibor extermination camp NERFINISHED
Treblinka extermination camp NERFINISHED
participatedIn Polish resistance movement
partOf Ashkenazi Jews
persecutedBy Nazi Germany
persecutedDuring German occupation of Poland
populationBeforeWorldWarII about 3.3 million
populationBeforeWorldWarIIShareOfPoland about 10 percent
postWarDiasporaDestinations Canada
Israel
United States NERFINISHED
Western Europe NERFINISHED
preWarCenter Krakow NERFINISHED
Lodz NERFINISHED
Lublin NERFINISHED
Vilnius NERFINISHED
Warsaw NERFINISHED
religion Judaism
resistedIn Bialystok Ghetto Uprising
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
subjectOf Holocaust historiography
Holocaust memorials in Poland
sufferedEvent Holocaust
World War II atrocities
timePeriodOfLargestCommunity interwar period
victimsOf deportation to extermination camps
forced labor
genocide
ghettoization
mass murder


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