List of Polish Jews


From the Middle Ages until the World War II Holocaust, Jews comprised an appreciable part of the general Polish population. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, known as "Paradisus Judaeorum" for its religious tolerance, had attracted tens of thousands of Jews who fled persecution from other European countries. Poland was a major spiritual and cultural center for Ashkenazi Jews.
At the start of the Second World War, Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world. The vast majority were murdered in the Holocaust during the German occupation of Poland, under the Nazi "Final Solution" mass-extermination program. Only 369,000 of Poland's Jews survived the War.
Since massive postwar emigration, the Polish-Jewish population has stood at somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000.
The list below includes persons of Jewish faith or ancestry.

Historical figures

Politicians

Economists

Artists

Polish-language

Baseball