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 tens of thousands of Jews who fled persecution from other European countries, even though, at times, discrimination against Jews surfaced in Poland just as it did elsewhere in Europe. Poland was a major spiritual and cultural center for Ashkenazi Jews and Ashkenazi Jewry. At the start of the Second World War, Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world (over 3.3 million),[1] but the vast majority of them 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[when?] Polish Jewish population stands at somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000.

The below list includes people of Jewish faith or ancestry.

Historical figures

Politicians

Others

Religious figures

Academics

Economists

Mathematicians

Philosophers

Sciences

Historians

Cultural figures

Artists

Musicians

Screen and stage

Writers and poets

Polish-language

Yiddish-language

Business figures

Sports

Chess

Fencing

Football

Swimming

Track and field

  • Irena Szewińska, sprinter and long jumper; world records in 100-m, 200-m, and 400-m; 3x Olympic champion, plus 4 medals (for a total of 7 olympic medals)
  • Jadwiga Wajs, 2 world records (discus); Olympic silver & bronze (discus)

Weightlifting

Holocaust Survivors

See also

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