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== == The great majority of them (about 90%) were murdered by German soldiers. Initially, many of them were forced to live in appalling conditions in ghettos established by the Nazis. Warsaw, Krakow and Lodz (Litzmannstadt) are among the best known. Late in 1941, Chelmno extermination camp was established for the sole purpose of gassing Jews. Other extermination camps followed: Belzec, the Birkenau section of Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka II and a key section of Majdanek. Just before the start of World War 2, over one-third of all Jews in Europe lived in Poland - about 3.3 million out of about 9.5 million. By the end of the war, 3 million Polish Jews had been killed by the Nazis. (This is based on pre-war frontiers for both figures). Many Jews were saved by Poles who risked their lives doing so. However, after the war, there were pogroms in Poland and a further 600 Jews were killed . The best known of these pogroms took place in Kielce in July 1946. Many Jews fled to the United States, or Israel, when it was established in 1948.

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