After invading Poland on Sept. 1, 1939 and taking over the country, Nazi Germans punished any form of assisting Jews, even offering them a glass of water, by killing the helpers and their families ...

Poland today remains a country of few Jews and Jewish life and culture is minimal. Some three million Jews were massacred during the 1939-1945 war and their numbers have not grown.

What should Jews think of Poland? MIDDLE ISRAEL: The fact that it wasn’t Nazism’s accomplice doesn't mean it wasn't plagued by antisemitism. By AMOTZ ASA-EL APRIL 14, 2023 21:00 ...

Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II; By Judy Rakwosky; Sourcebooks; 384 pp., $17.99 A veteran reporter who spent ...

Shmueli, a Polish Jew born in Lodz in 1908, focuses on the storied Jewish community of Poland during the 1920s, when it was home to 3.3 million Jews, representing nine percent of its population.

Only 18 Percent of Prussian Jews Foreigners, Figures Show. December 24, 1930. ... Of this total of foreign Jews in Prussia, 35,385 came from Poland, 9498 from Austria, 6986 from Russia, ...

Poland's president has taken part in nationwide observances Friday to honor Poles who risked — and often lost — their lives trying to save Jews from the Holocaust during the Nazi German ...

Poland honors citizens who risked and lost their lives to help Jewish people during the Holocaust. Polish President Andrzej Duda took part in the nationwide observances on Friday.