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From the ] until the ], ] comprised an appreciable part of ]'s population. The ], known for its ]<ref name="Hugh">Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, ''From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution'', University of Chicago Press 1992, page 51. Quote: "Poland, at that time, was the most tolerant country in Europe." Also in '''' by S. Groenveld, Michael J. Wintle; and in '''' (Walburg Instituut, 1994).</ref> and described as '']'' (] for "] of the Jews"),<ref name="Haumannp30">{{Cite book|last=Haumann|first=Heiko|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ypcWuuGVvX8C&pg=PA30|title=A History of East European Jews|date=2002-01-01|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=9789639241268|page=30}}</ref><ref name="Gellerp20">{{cite book|last=Geller|first=Ewa|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mlNuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|title=Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe|publisher=Springer|year=2018|isbn=9783319924809|editor1-last=Moskalewicz|editor1-first=Marcin|page=20 (13–26)|chapter=Yiddish 'Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum" from Early Modern Poland: A Humanistic Symbiosis of Latin Medicine and Jewish Thought|editor2-last=Caumanns|editor2-first=Ute|editor3-last=Dross|editor3-first=Fritz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Despard|first=Matthew K.|date=2015-01-02|title=In Search of a Polish Past|journal=Jewish Quarterly|volume=62|issue=1|pages=40–43|doi=10.1080/0449010x.2015.1010393|issn=0449-010X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rosenfeld|first=Gavriel D.|date=September 2016|title=Mixed Metaphors in Muranów: Holocaust Memory and Architectural Meaning at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews|journal=Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust|volume=30|issue=3|pages=258–273|doi=10.1080/23256249.2016.1242550|s2cid=191753083|issn=2325-6249}}</ref><ref name="Elphick2019">{{cite book|author=Daniel Elphick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KCsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18|title=Music behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and his Polish Contemporaries|date=3 October 2019|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-49367-3|page=18}}</ref> had attracted tens of thousands of Jews who fled persecution from other European countries. Poland was a major spiritual and cultural center for ]. From the ] until the ], ] comprised an ethnic minority in ]'s population. The ], known for its religious tolerance]]<ref name="Hugh">Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, ''From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution'', University of Chicago Press 1992, page 51. Quote: "Poland, at that time, was the most tolerant country in Europe." Also in '''' by S. Groenveld, Michael J. Wintle; and in '''' (Walburg Instituut, 1994).</ref> and described as ''] for Paradise/safety of the Jews"),<ref name="Haumannp30">{{Cite book|last=Haumann|first=Heiko|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ypcWuuGVvX8C&pg=PA30|title=A History of East European Jews|date=2002-01-01|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=9789639241268|page=30}}</ref><ref name="Gellerp20">{{cite book|last=Geller|first=Ewa|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mlNuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|title=Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe|publisher=Springer|year=2018|isbn=9783319924809|editor1-last=Moskalewicz|editor1-first=Marcin|page=20 (13–26)|chapter=Yiddish 'Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum" from Early Modern Poland: A Humanistic Symbiosis of Latin Medicine and Jewish Thought|editor2-last=Caumanns|editor2-first=Ute|editor3-last=Dross|editor3-first=Fritz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Despard|first=Matthew K.|date=2015-01-02|title=In Search of a Polish Past|journal=Jewish Quarterly|volume=62|issue=1|pages=40–43|doi=10.1080/0449010x.2015.1010393|issn=0449-010X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rosenfeld|first=Gavriel D.|date=September 2016|title=Mixed Metaphors in Muranów: Holocaust Memory and Architectural Meaning at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews|journal=Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust|volume=30|issue=3|pages=258–273|doi=10.1080/23256249.2016.1242550|s2cid=191753083|issn=2325-6249}}</ref><ref name="Elphick2019">{{cite book|author=Daniel Elphick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KCsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18|title=Music behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and his Polish Contemporaries|date=3 October 2019|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-49367-3|page=18}}</ref> had attracted tens of thousands of Jews who fled persecution from other European countries. Poland was a center for ] because of the famous Polish religious tolerance that offered shelter also for many Europeans who fled brutal religious wars their countries during reformation (Catholics vs Protestants religious wars).


At the start of the ], Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world (over 3.3 million, some 10% of the general Polish population).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Poland.html|title = Poland Virtual Jewish History Tour|website = Jewish Virtual Library|publisher = American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise}}</ref> The vast majority were murdered under the Nazi "]" mass-extermination program in ] during the German occupation; only 369,000 (11%) of Poland's Jews survived the War. At the start of the ], Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world (over 3.2 million, <ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Poland.html|title = Poland Virtual Jewish History Tour|website = Jewish Virtual Library|publisher = American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise}}</ref> Almost all were murdered under the Geman Nazi "]" mass-extermination program in ] during the German occupation of Poland; only 269,000 survived the War.


The list below includes persons of Jewish faith or ancestry. The list below includes persons of Jewish faith or ancestry.

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From the Middle Ages until the Holocaust, Polish Jews comprised an ethnic minority in Poland's population. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, known for its religious tolerance]] and described as [[Heaven for the nobles, Purgatory for the townspeople, Hell for the peasants, and Paradise for the Jews (Latin for Paradise/safety of the Jews"), had attracted tens of thousands of Jews who fled persecution from other European countries. Poland was a center for Ashkenazi Jews because of the famous Polish religious tolerance that offered shelter also for many Europeans who fled brutal religious wars their countries during reformation (Catholics vs Protestants religious wars).

At the start of the Second World War, Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world (over 3.2 million, Almost all were murdered under the Geman Nazi "Final Solution" mass-extermination program in the Holocaust in Poland during the German occupation of Poland; only 269,000 survived the War.

The list below includes persons of Jewish faith or ancestry.

Historical figures

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Others

Graves of Polish Jews among the fallen soldiers of the Polish Defensive War of 1939; Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw

Sovereign Polish Armed Forces

  • Berek Joselewicz, Polish-Jewish Colonel in the Polish Legions of Napoleon's armies
  • Bernard Mond, member of the Austrio—Hungarian Army, 1914–1918; Polish soldier and officer, 1918–1939; sent to POW camp by the Germans; finished his career in the rank of Brigade General and, in command of the 6th Infantry Division (Poland), fought against the Germans in 1939
  • Poldek Pfefferberg, Polish soldier in 1939 saved from death by his sergeant major; Holocaust survivor; a man who inspired the book that the film Schindler's List was based on
  • Baruch Steinberg, Chief Rabbi of the Polish Armed Forces, murdered by the Soviet NKVD

Religious figures

Rabbis

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Football

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Swimming

Track and field

  • Myer Prinstein, Olympic long-jumper from Szczuczyn, Poland
  • Irena Szewińska, sprinter and long jumper; world records in 100-m, 200-m, and 400-m; three-time Olympic champion, plus four medals (for a total of seven Olympic medals)
  • Jadwiga Wajs, two world records (discus); Olympic silver and bronze (discus)

Weightlifting

  • Ben Helfgott, Polish-born, three-time British champion (lightweight), three-time Maccabiah champion; survived Buchenwald and Theresienstadt; all but one family member was murdered by the Nazis

Holocaust survivors

See also

References

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