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Everyone. It was created by the Nazis in 1940. All Jews in Warsaw were ordered into the ghetto, and all non-Jews were ordered out. (Note that it was not the existing, prewar Jewish district, but an area close to a large railhead, for onward deportation).

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Before World War II, Warsaw was the home of 375,000 Jews, one third of the population of the city. It once had the largest Jewish population of any city in Europe.

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Prewar Poland had a Jewish population of 3.3 million, easily the largest in Europe. About 90% of Polish Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

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The Jewish census in Poland was 3.3 Million in 1939.

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Initially, about 450,000+.

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In 1940 it had about 450,000 inhabitants.

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How many Jews lived in Poland in 1938?

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.


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Before WW2 there were about 2100 Norwegian Jews in Norway. Mostly of them were aither sent to consentrations camps in Poland or they escaped to Sweden.


To see a monument to the heroes of the Warsaw ghetto where many Jews lived before world war 2 you would travel to which European country?

Warsaw is in Poland.


How many Jewish people in Poland in 2010?

Prior to the Holocaust, Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world. As of 2010, there are about 22,000 Jews living there.


What were the results of the Holocaust?

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.


Why did Germany build so many concentration camp in Poland?

Just before the start of World War 2 Poland had a Jewish population of about 3.3 million.


How many jews were left in poland in 1945?

around 60,000


How can the Jews claim that Hitler killed 6 million Jews when the population of Jews in Germany was much smaller?

Jews were deported from all over Nazi occupied Europe: Germany Holland Hungary Slovakia and many more locations. ___ The extermination camps were nearly all on Polish territory, and Poland had about 3.3 million Jews at the start of World War 2. (The Nazis invaded Poland).


In which European country were the most jews killed and how many?

Poland, 3 million Jews were killed. Their was a jewish population of 3.3 Million in poland and 91% of the jewish population were killed due to Nazi occupation of Poland


How many European Jews were there before World War 2?

About 9.4 million in 1939.


What was the only thing in the ghetto not in short supply?

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Do Poland worship church or temple?

Where you worship depends on your religion, not your nationality. People in Poland worship in many different types of places. Most Christians in Poland worship in a church, because Christians worship in a church. Most Jews in Poland worship in a temple or synogogue, because that is where Jews worship. Muslims in Poland worship in Mosques, because that is where Muslims worship. Many religions (including Christians, Jews, and Muslims) also worship at home.