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The history of Warsaw spans over 1400 years. ... as illustrated by the rapid growth of the population to 20,000 people compared to c. 4500 people a century earlier. ...
Prior to the Second World War, Warsaw hosted the world's second largest Jewish population after New York – approximately 30 percent of the city's total population in the late 1930s. [53] In 1933, 833,500 out of 1,178,914 people declared Polish as their mother tongue. [ 142 ]
The following is a timeline of the history of Warsaw in Poland. ... Population: 161,008. [7] 1862 Szkoła Główna Warszawska (school) ...
The 1950 census (3 December 1950) showed the population rise to 25,008,000, and the 1960 census (6 December 1960) placed the population of Poland at 29,776,000. [57] In 1950, Warsaw was the biggest city of the country, with population of 804,000.
Adam Czerniakow who was the head of the Warsaw Judenrat committed suicide when he was forced to collect daily lists of Jews to be deported to the Treblinka extermination camp at the onset of Grossaktion Warsaw. [250] The population of the ghetto reached 380,000 people by the end of 1940, about 30% of the population of Warsaw.
The Warsaw metropolitan area (known in Polish as: aglomeracja warszawska or Miejski Obszar Funkcjonalny Warszawy) is the metropolitan area of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. The metropolitan area covers ten counties in the Masovian Voivodeship, with an area of 6,100 km 2 (2,400 sq mi) [4] [5] and a population of around 3.5 million in 2022. [6]
The Jewish community was the most prominent there, constituting over 88% of the inhabitants of Muranów; with the total of about 32.7% of the population of the left-bank and 14.9% of the right-bank Warsaw, or 332,938 people in total according to 1931 census. [12] Many Jews left the city during the depression. [12]
The destruction of Warsaw was practically unparalleled in the Second World War, with it being noted that "Perhaps no city suffered more than Warsaw during World War II", with historian Alexandra Richie stating that "The destruction of Warsaw was unique even in the terrible history of the Second World War". [1]