The jewish community before and after WWII

Jewish community in Poland before and After WWII.

• Polish Jewry was threatend durimg the end of the 18th century.
• This happened through a series of diplomatic moves between poland, Russian, Prussia, and Austria.
• Russsia was in crontol of vast areas of Poland meaning many polish jewas found themselves under russian rule.

• When the Crusaders moved through Europe in the 13th century Jewish refuges sought saftey in Poland.
• The 1264 Statue Kalisz created legal protections for jews.
• With these protections Jewish communitys in poland were thriving

• 80 percent of all jews lived in poland
• Several significant jewish religous movements were developing.

• Jews live in both shtetls and big cities.
• Some are very religous and some are infulenced by mordern ideas.

• By the 1920s Jews made about a quater and a half of the population in larger cities
• Those cities became the cultural, religous, and intellectual centers of world Jewry.

Jewish synagogue in Poland circa 1920.

Jewish shtelts in poland circa 1920

Russian control over Poland after 1795

1264 Statue Kalisz

Poland in the 1500s

Circa 1920

1500s

1264

circa 1920

1795

The history of the Jewish community in Poland before and after WWII.

• After the Holocaust about 90% of the Jewish population had been murderd.
• Many choose to leave the country after birth.

• Holocaust survivors in Poland did their best to make due wth what little was left of their community.
• Right after the war Polish Jewish community organizations primarily centered around immediate recovry matters.

• Jews noe mix age-old tradidtions with the modern world and belifs
• there are only about 10,000 Polish Jews.

• Today Jewish people live all around the World
• They have lots of museums and historical sites to honor these people
• One of these museums is here in Tulsa!

• Today there are many Jewish organizations
• This includes an organization comprising person orphend in the Holocaust raised by non Jews.
• Many didn't discover their origin until late in life.

Jewish population befor and after Holocaust.

Jewish combat organization

A historic Jewish site in Poland

Map of Jewish populated areas.

Warsaw 1950

present day

presnt day

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1945

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