the Middle Ages until the Holocaust, Polish Jews comprised an appreciable part of Poland's population. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, known for its...
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List of Hungarian Jews List of Polish Jews List of Romanian Jews List of Belarusian Jews List of Ukrainian Jews List of Jews born in the former Russian...
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the label paradisus iudaeorum (Latin for "Paradise of the Jews"). Poland became a shelter for Jews persecuted and expelled from various European countries...
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German Jews List of Hungarian Jews List of Polish Jews List of Romanian Jews List of South-East European Jews List of Ukrainian Jews List of West European...
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citizens of Poland have the highest count of individuals who have been recognized by Yad Vashem as the Polish Righteous Among the Nations, for saving Jews from...
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Polish Jews were the primary victims of the Nazi Germany-organized Holocaust in Poland. Throughout the German occupation of Poland, Jews were rescued from...
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Galician Jews or Galitzianers (Yiddish: גאַליציאַנער, romanized: Galitsianer) are members of the subgroup of Ashkenazi Jews originating and developed in...
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This list of Canadian Jews includes notable Canadian Jews or Canadians of Jewish descent, arranged by field of activity. Eric Berne (1910–1970), psychiatrist...
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Jewish–Ukrainian relations in Eastern Galicia List of Galician Jews List of Polish Jews Lithuanian Jews Lwów Ghetto Lwów Uprising The Holocaust in Lithuania...
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Eiss Archive. Jews were also helped by Henryk Sławik, in Hungary, who helped save over 30,000 Polish refugees, including 5,000 Polish Jews by giving them...
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This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited...
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The following is a list of Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews. This is a list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry. Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508)...
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List of Galicia (Eastern Europe) Jews – Jews born in Galicia (Eastern Europe) or identifying themselves as Galitzianer. Those born after the Congress of...
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directly or indirectly, from Polish. Several Polish words have entered English slang via Yiddish, brought by Ashkenazi Jews migrating from Poland to North...
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The Holocaust (redirect from Genocide of the European Jews)
genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across...
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Żegota (redirect from Polish Council to Aid Jews)
the "Konrad Żegota Committee") was the Polish Council to Aid Jews with the Government Delegation for Poland (Polish: Rada Pomocy Żydom przy Delegaturze Rządu...
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The list gives the name, the date, the Polish allies and enemies, and the result of these conflicts following this legend: Polish victory Polish defeat...
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Schindlerjuden (redirect from List of Schindler's Jews)
German as "Schindler Jews", were a group of roughly 1,200 Jews saved by Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust. They survived the years of the Nazi regime primarily...
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of Belz Rebbe Yissachar Dov Rokeach of Belz Friedrich Weinreb See also List of Austrian Jews; See List of German Jews; List of Polish Jews, List of North...
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Following the establishment of the Second Polish Republic after World War I and during the interwar period, the number of Jews in the country grew rapidly...
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Irena Sendler (category Polish resistance members of World War II)
Warsaw. From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews (Polish: Rada Pomocy Żydom). In the 1930s, Sendler...
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other forms of displacement that have affected Jews. The following is a list of Jewish expulsions and events that prompted significant streams of Jewish refugees...
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Expansion until the 1960s, Jews were a significant part of the population of Arab countries. Before 1948, an estimated 900,000 Jews lived in what are now Arab...
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indicated country of origin and are notable. The following is a list of some prominent Latin American Jews, arranged by country of origin: Ernesto Acher...
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spiritual center of the Jewish people in Europe. The most prosperous period for Polish Jews began following this new influx of Jews with the reign of Sigismund...
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of selected events concerning the history of the Jews in Poland beginning with the formation of the Polish state under its first ruler, Mieszko I of Poland...
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numbers of Polish and Soviet Jews fled eastwards from German-occupied Europe or were deported by the Soviet Union. The majority of exiled Polish Jews lived...
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This is a list of LGBT Jews. Each person is both Jewish (by birth or conversion according to Jewish law, or identifies as Jewish via ancestry) and has...
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Ashkenazi Jews (/ˌɑːʃkəˈnɑːzi, ˌæʃ-/ A(H)SH-kə-NAH-zee; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged...
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Khmelnytsky Uprising (redirect from Polish-Cossack War)
hundred thousand Jews—about a fifth of Polish Jewry—perished. It was the greatest calamity the Jews were to experience until the rise of Hitler. Bamberger...
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