Non-Jews of Polish descent suffered over 100,000 deaths at Auschwitz. The Germans forcibly deported approximately 2,000,000 Polish gentiles into labor for the Third Reich. The Russians deported almost 1,700,000 Polish non-Jews to Siberia.

Collaboration by non-Jewish Polish citizens in the Holocaust was sporadic, but incidents of hostility against Jews are well documented and have been a subject of renewed scholarly interest during the 21st century.

Poland’s Underground army –- made up of children, teenagers, men and women – was responsible for defending the lives of thousands of its Jewish and non-Jewish citizens. Many were killed for their acts of courage against the Nazis.

It is estimated that the Germans killed between 1.8 and 1.9 million non-Jewish Polish civilians during World War II. In addition, the Germans murdered at least 3 million Jewish citizens of Poland.

Jan 27, 2015 · Six million Jewish people were murdered during the genocide in Europe in the years leading up to 1945, and the Jews are rightly remembered as the group that Adolf Hitler's Nazi party most savagely persecuted during the Holocaust.

Between 1939 and 1945, at least 1.5 million Polish citizens were deported to German territory for forced labour. Hundreds of thousands were also imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. It is estimated that the Nazis killed at least 1.9 million non …

3.3 million Jewish men, women, and children for destruction, Nazi plans for the Polish Catholic majority focused on the murder or suppression of political, religious, and intellectual leaders. This policy had two aims: first, to prevent Polish elites from organ-izing resistance or from ever regrouping into a governing class; second, to exploit ...

Historians estimate that between 1.5 and 1.8 million non-Jewish Polish people died during Nazi occupation. In the Soviet Union, millions of Soviet civilians died as a result of the Nazis’...

Feb 6, 2018 · In May 1942, non-Jewish residents of the town held hostage some two to three dozen local Jews. Over the course of several days, they tortured and raped their hostages before finally murdering...

May 13, 2016 · Before liberation in 1945, nearly five million Poles died—including three million Jews and 1.9 million non-Jewish Polish citizens. The Poland that emerged from the war, as evidenced by postwar attacks on Jewish survivors, lacked the diversity that had been essential to Polish culture on the eve of the Second World War.