According to the Jewish Virtual Library, world Jewish population in 1939 was 16,728,000.
The US Holocaust Memorial indicates that European Jewish population in 1933 was approximately 9.5 million, 60% of world Jewish population (15.3 million) and 1.7% of the overall European population.
It's estimated that between 9.4 Million and 9.4 million Jews were in Europe by 1939. However only about 2.75 Million Jews still existed in Europe by May 1945.
About 3.3 million.
There are about 8,000 practising Jews in Poland. In 1939 there were about 3.3 million ...
Some Jews were transported from Germany to Poland in late 1939 and early 1940 on an 'experimental basis'. Routine transports of Jews from Germany to Poland began on 15 October 1941.
The Germans attacked Poland in 1939 then kicked the Poles out of their own country and next he moved his own Germans into Poland. He put the Polish Jews into concentration camps. _____ The Polish people weren't kicked out of their own country after the invasion. There were approx 35 million people living in Poland at the outbreak of the war so logistically it would have been impossible to do this. The Polish people, and especially the Jews, suffered greatly during the German occupation. Many Jews were moved into Ghettos and later into concentration camps.
The Nazis started to move Jews into ghettos in Poland in November 1939.
Germany NEVER invaded the jews--they took them from their homes and workplaces all over Nazi-occupied Europe and sent them to concentration camps where they either performed labor for the Nazis or were killed.
There are about 8,000 practising Jews in Poland. In 1939 there were about 3.3 million ...
The US had about 4.5 million Jews. In Europe, Poland with 3.3 million Jews.
Some Jews were transported from Germany to Poland in late 1939 and early 1940 on an 'experimental basis'. Routine transports of Jews from Germany to Poland began on 15 October 1941.
From 1939 when he invaded Poland to 1945 when he committed suicide.
The current Jewish population of Poland is about 8,000 only. See the Wikipedia article on The Jews in Poland. (Compare with an estimated 3.3 million in 1939). In 2010 3,200 Jews lived in Poland according to http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/jewpop.HTML.
Well, to begin with, when Nazi Germany occupied Poland starting in 1939, they made a point of murdering the Jews there. When the war ended, about 3 million Polish Jews had been slaughtered, leaving around 200,000 survivors. After the war was over, many of these survivors wound up leaving Poland, and moved to places like the US or Israel.
Approximately 300,000 Jews were living in France in 1939.
The Germans attacked Poland in 1939 then kicked the Poles out of their own country and next he moved his own Germans into Poland. He put the Polish Jews into concentration camps. _____ The Polish people weren't kicked out of their own country after the invasion. There were approx 35 million people living in Poland at the outbreak of the war so logistically it would have been impossible to do this. The Polish people, and especially the Jews, suffered greatly during the German occupation. Many Jews were moved into Ghettos and later into concentration camps.
More than 6 million Jews and a like number of non-Jews were killed. Millions more emerged with major injuries and horrific memories. Today there are more living "Schindler Jews" around the world, than Jews in Poland. In 1939, there were 3 million Jews in Poland.
German occupation authorities established the first ghetto in Poland in Piotrków Trybunalski in October 1939.
poice insured that Jews did not leave the confines of the ghetto
Ghettos started in Poland and moved forward to Germany because the Jews were forced to live there after being kicked out of Jerusalem and then the holocaust started... ___The Nazi ghettos for Jews started in occupied Poland in October 1939.