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.

All labels observed (8)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (56)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish community
ethnic group
religious community
confinedIn Bialystok Ghetto
linked to: Białystok Ghetto

Krakow Ghetto
linked to: Kraków Ghetto

Lodz Ghetto
linked to: Łódź Ghetto

Lublin Ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto
countryOfOrigin Poland
estimatedVictimsDuringHolocaust about 3 million
experienced community annihilation
cultural destruction
property confiscation
widespread antisemitism
historicalLanguage Hebrew
knownFor Hasidic Judaism
linked to: Hasidism

Jewish literature
Jewish political movements
Jewish theater
yeshiva scholarship
mainLanguage Polish
Yiddish
murderedIn Auschwitz concentration camp
linked to: AuschwitzBirkenau

Belzec extermination camp
linked to: Belzec

Chelmno extermination camp
linked to: Chelmno

Majdanek concentration camp
linked to: Majdanek

Sobibor extermination camp
linked to: Sobibor

Treblinka extermination camp
linked to: Treblinka
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
Western Europe
preWarCenter Krakow
linked to: Kraków

Lodz
linked to: Łódź

Lublin
Vilnius
Warsaw
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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Referenced by (32)

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German occupation of Poland victim Polish Jews
Joseph Rotblat ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Paul Baran ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Leopold Infeld ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Roman Polanski ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Mapah associatedCommunity Polish Jewry
linked to: Polish Jews
Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery partOf Jewish heritage of Warsaw
linked to: Polish Jews
Rosa Luxemburg ethnicGroup Polish Jews
subject linked to: Luxemburg
Augusta Barnett Miller ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Adam Ulam ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Soma Morgenstern workSubject Galician Jews
linked to: Polish Jews
Helena Rubinstein ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Solomon Asch ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Einsatz Reinhardt victim Polish Jews
Adam Holender ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Second Aliyah appliesToDemographicGroup Polish Jews
Bronislau Kaper ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Rema of Kraków partOf Polish–Lithuanian Jewish community
linked to: Polish Jews
HaMapah on Yoreh De’ah associatedWith Polish Jewry
linked to: Polish Jews
HaMapah on Even HaEzer geographicTradition Polish Jewry
linked to: Polish Jews
Toras HaChatas associatedWith Polish Jewry
linked to: Polish Jews
Fishke depictsSocialGroup Eastern European Jews
linked to: Polish Jews
Vaad Arba Aratzot appliesToJurisdiction Polish Jewry
linked to: Polish Jews
Ashkenazi tradition influencedBy Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Jewish communities
linked to: Polish Jews
Juliusz Schauder ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Józef Schreier ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Ignacy Krieger ethnicGroup Polish Jews
Moskat family represents Polish Jewry
linked to: Polish Jews
Old Synagogue (Kraków) culturalHeritageOf Polish Jews
subject linked to: Old Synagogue
New Jewish Cemetery in Kraków usedByCommunity Kraków Jews
linked to: Polish Jews