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* [[Ludwik Gintel]], Poland national team<ref name=sporting>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_Si5OP6cjkC&pg=PA17&dq=%22ludwik+gintel%22+jewish&hl=en&ei=Zk8PTcruIMOAlAfWuK25DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA |title=Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII |author= Ezra Mendelsohn |publisher= Oxford University Press |ISBN=0-19-538291-9|year= 2009|accessdate=December 24, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Ludwik Gintel]], Poland national team<ref name=sporting>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_Si5OP6cjkC&pg=PA17&dq=%22ludwik+gintel%22+jewish&hl=en&ei=Zk8PTcruIMOAlAfWuK25DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA |title=Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII |author= Ezra Mendelsohn |publisher= Oxford University Press |ISBN=0-19-538291-9|year= 2009|accessdate=December 24, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Avram Grant|Abraham "Avram" Grant]] (b. 1955), football manager of various football clubs and national teams (e.g. [[Chelsea F.C.]], [[Israel national football team|Israel]], [[Ghana national football team]])
* [[Avram Grant|Abraham "Avram" Grant]] (b. 1955), football manager of various football clubs and national teams (e.g. [[Chelsea F.C.]], [[Israel national football team|Israel]], [[Ghana national football team]])
* [[Józef Klotz]], Poland national team; killed by the Nazis<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/news.php?id_article=5604 |author=Eldad Beck|title= Anti-Semitism feared ahead of Euro 2012 |publisher=[[European Jewish Congress]] |date=August 9, 2010 |accessdate=December 24, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Józef Klotz]], Poland national team; killed by the Nazis<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/news.php?id_article=5604 |author=Eldad Beck|title=Anti-Semitism feared ahead of Euro 2012 |publisher=[[European Jewish Congress]] |date=August 9, 2010 |accessdate=December 24, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Józef Lustgarten]], spent 17 years in the [[Gulag]]
* [[Józef Lustgarten]], spent 17 years in the [[Gulag]]
* [[Leon Sperling]], left wing, Polish national team; killed by the Nazis in the [[Lemberg Ghetto]]
* [[Leon Sperling]], left wing, Polish national team; killed by the Nazis in the [[Lemberg Ghetto]]

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From the Middle Ages until the Holocaust, Jews comprised a significant part of the Polish population. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, known as a "Jewish paradise" for its religious tolerance, attracted tens of thousands of Jews who fled persecution from other European countries, even though, at times, discrimination against Jews surfaced in Poland just as it did elsewhere in Europe. Poland was a major spiritual and cultural center for Ashkenazi Jews and Ashkenazi Jewry. At the start of the Second World War, Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world (over 3.3 million),[1] but the vast majority of them were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during the German occupation of Poland, particularly through the implementation of the "Final Solution" mass extermination program. Only 369,000 (11%) survived. After massive postwar emigration, the Polish Jewish population stands at somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000.

The below list includes people of Jewish faith or ancestry.

Historical figures

Politicians

Others

Graves of Polish Jews among the fallen soldiers of the Polish Defensive War of 1939; Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw

Sovereign Polish Armed Forces

  • Berek Joselewicz, Polish-Jewish Colonel in the Polish Legions of Napoleon's armies
  • Bernard Mond, member of the Austrio--Hungarian Army 1914-1918; Polish soldier and officer 1918-1939; sent to POW camp by the Germans; finished carrier in the rank of Brigade General and in charge of the 6th Infantry Division (Poland) fought against the Germans in 1939
  • Poldek Pfefferberg, Polish soldier in 1939 saved from death by his sergeant major; Holocaust survivor; a man who inspired the book that the film Schindler's List was based on
  • Baruch Steinberg, Chief Rabbi of the Polish Armed Forces, murdered by the Soviet NKVD

Religious figures

Academics

Economists

Mathematicians

Philosophers

Sciences

Historians

Cultural figures

Artists

Musicians

Screen and stage

Writers and poets

Polish-language

Yiddish-language

Business figures

Sports

Chess

Fencing

Football

Professional wrestling

Swimming

Track and field

  • Myer Prinstein, Olympic long-jumper from Szczuczyn, Poland
  • Irena Szewińska, sprinter and long jumper; world records in 100-m, 200-m, and 400-m; three-time Olympic champion, plus four medals (for a total of seven Olympic medals)
  • Jadwiga Wajs, two world records (discus); Olympic silver and bronze (discus)

Weightlifting

  • Ben Helfgott, Polish-born, three-time British champion (lightweight), three-time Maccabiah champion; survived Buchenwald and Theresienstadt; all but one family member was killed by the Nazis

Holocaust survivors

See also

References

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  9. ^ Shimon Peres - Biography
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