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Source: Franciszek Proch. Poland's Way of the Cross, 1939-1945. New York: Polish
Association of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi and Soviet Concentration Camps, 1987,
p. 147, as cited in Tadeusz Piotrowski. Poland's Holocaust. Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1998, p. 304.
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Civilian |
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End of 1938 |
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Jewish |
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Population |
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Soviet Union |
170,500 |
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7,000 |
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8,500 |
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845 |
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16,345 |
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9.6% |
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Poland |
28,400 |
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360 |
** |
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3,230 |
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2,500 |
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6,090 |
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21.4% |
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Germany |
68,500 |
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3,500 |
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500 |
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110 |
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4,110 |
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6.0% |
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Yugoslavia |
15,490 |
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300 |
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1,150 |
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63 |
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1,513 |
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9.8% |
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Rumania |
16,070 |
* |
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300 |
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– |
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370 |
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670 |
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4.2% |
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France |
41,680 |
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250 |
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250 |
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70 |
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570 |
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1.4% |
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Czechoslovakia |
14,610 |
* |
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200 |
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75 |
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271 |
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546 |
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3.7% |
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Italy |
43,780 |
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330 |
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80 |
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17 |
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427 |
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1.0% |
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Hungary |
9,200 |
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140 |
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50 |
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200 |
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390 |
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4.2% |
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U.K. |
47,814 |
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326 |
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62 |
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– |
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388 |
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0.8% |
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Austria |
6,653 |
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230 |
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24 |
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53 |
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307 |
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4.6% |
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Holland |
8,729 |
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12 |
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94 |
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105 |
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211 |
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2.4% |
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Lithuania |
2,400 |
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– |
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50 |
*** |
125 |
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175 |
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7.3% |
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Greece |
7,295 |
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20 |
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80 |
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62 |
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162 |
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2.2% |
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Belgium |
8,386 |
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12 |
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49 |
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50 |
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111 |
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1.3% |
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Latvia |
2,000 |
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– |
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30 |
*** |
80 |
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110 |
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5.5% |
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Bulgaria |
6,270 |
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10 |
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– |
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3 |
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13 |
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0.2% |
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Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Danzing, Luxemburg |
8,520 |
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7 |
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5 |
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6 |
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18 |
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0.2% |
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Total |
506,297 |
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12,997 |
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14,229 |
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4,930 |
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32,156 |
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6,4% |
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* Not including territories ceded to Soviet Union but including, in the case of Poland, the Polish and Jewish populations of these territories.
** Including 32,000 Jews.
*** Franciszek J. Proch's estimate.
See: note on Polish WWII casualties  |
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| © Copyright 1998 by Thaddeus M. Piotrowski. All rights reserved. |
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