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      • Throughout the German occupation of Poland, Jews were rescued from the Holocaust by Polish people, at risk to their lives and the lives of their families. According to Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, Poles were, by nationality, the most numerous persons identified as rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.
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  1. Feb 6, 2018 · Despite severe penalties, more Christian Poles have been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations—those who risked their lives to aid Jews—than citizens of any other country in Europe. But...

    • Edna Friedberg
  2. Ethnic Poles assisted Jews by organized as well as by individual efforts. Food was offered to Polish Jews or left in places Jews would pass on their way to forced labor. Other Poles directed Jewish ghetto escapees to Poles who could help them.

  3. Few Poles were willing to help Jews, and those who were endured threats and sometimes retaliation, including murder, from fellow Poles.

  4. May 13, 2016 · Scholars suggest that between 40,000 and 60,000 of the Jews who survived were rescued by Poles. 2 However, the majority of the Polish population was under the brutal control of the Nazis and was not in a position to help.

  5. Feb 11, 2017 · More than 200,000 Jews were killed, directly or indirectly, by Poles in World War II, says historian Jan Grabowski, who studied the brutal persecution of the victims. His conclusion: There were no bystanders in the Holocaust.

    • Ofer Aderet
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  6. Jews were aided also by diplomats outside Poland. The Ładoś Group was a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists who created in Switzerland a system of illegal production of Latin American passports aimed at saving European Jews from the Holocaust.

  7. Apr 19, 2013 · After communism collapsed in 1989, academics were free to research the brutal reality of this war-time period, when the occupying Nazis induced Poles to give up Jews and forbade them to help...

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