List of Polish Jews

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

From the Middle Ages until the Holocaust, Jews comprised a significant part of the Polish population. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, known as a "Jewish paradise" for its religious tolerance, attracted numerous Jews who fled persecution from other European countries, even though, at times, discrimination against Jews surfaced as it did elsewhere in Europe. Poland was a major spiritual and cultural center for Ashkenazi Jews/Ashkenazi Jewry. At the start of the Second World War, Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world (over 3.3 million [3]), the vast majority of whom were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during the German occupation of Poland, particularly through the implementation of the "Final Solution" mass extermination program. Only 369,000 (11%) survived. After massive postwar emigration, the current Polish Jewish population stands at somewhere between 8,000 and 20,000.

Note that the list includes people of Jewish faith, Ashkenazi culture and/or Jewish ancestry.

Contents

[edit] Historical figures

[edit] Politicians

[edit] Others

[edit] Religious figures

[edit] Academics

[edit] Mathematicians

[edit] Sciences

[edit] Historians

[edit] Cultural figures

[edit] Artists

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Screen and stage

[edit] Writers and poets

[edit] Polish-language

[edit] Yiddish-language

[edit] Business figures

[edit] Sports

[edit] Chess

[edit] Fencing

[edit] Soccer (association football)

[edit] Swimming

[edit] Track and field

  • Irena Szewińska, sprinter & long jumper, world records (100-m, 200-m, and 400-m); 3x Olympic champion (4x100-m, 200-m, 400-m), 2 silver (200-m & long jump), and 2 bronze 1968 (100-m & 200-m)
  • Jadwiga Wajs, 2 world records (discus); Olympic silver & bronze (discus)

[edit] Weightlifting

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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