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According to the Polish government's official report on war damages which was published in 1947, the total number of Poland's war dead was 6,028,000; 3.0 million ethnic Poles and 3.0 million Jews, excluding the losses of Polish citizens who were members of the Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnic groups.
Anti-Jewish violence in Poland from 1944 to 1946 preceded and followed the end of World War II in Europe and influenced the postwar history of the Jews and Polish-Jewish relations. It occurred amid a period of violence and anarchy across the country caused by lawlessness and anti-communist resistance against the Soviet-backed communist takeover ...
During World War II, Jews in Poland suffered the worst percentage loss of life compared to all other national and ethnic groups. The vast majority were civilians. On average, 2800 Polish citizens died per day during its occupation. [240]
Pogrom halted after intervention by German army in favor of the Jews. Additional 100 Jews killed in July by Poles. The Jews were subsequently murdered by the Germans. 1941 Białystok massacres: 27 June, 3–4 July, 12–13 July 1941 Białystok Nazi Germany: 6,500–7,000 Jews Dobromil massacre 30 June 1941 Dobromil Nazi Germany: 50–132 Jews
Between the 1939 invasion of Poland, and the end of World War II, over 90% of Polish Jewry was murdered. Six extermination camps ( Auschwitz , Belzec , Chełmno , Majdanek , Sobibor and Treblinka ) were established in which the mass murder of millions of Polish Jews and various other groups, was carried out between 1942 and 1944.
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 is a book by American historian Joshua D. Zimmerman, published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press, discussing relations between Poland's Jewish population and the Polish resistance in World War II.
[168] [176] Of Poland's prewar Jewish population of about or above three million, about or above 10% survived the war. [174] [177] Davies wrote of some 150,000 Jews surviving the war in Poland. [168] Between 50,000 and 100,000 survived in hiding helped by other Poles according to Kochanski, between 30,000 and 60,000 according to Sowa.
Jewish: killed in the Warsaw Ghetto: Janusz Kusociński: 1907–1940: Polish: athlete;1932 Los Angeles men's athletics gold medalist Polish resistance movement in World War II: executed in Palmiry: Dawid Przepiórka: 1880–1940: Polish: chess player; chess Olympian Jewish: executed, Warsaw: Leon Sperling: 1900–1941: Polish: left wing on ...