• Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zip
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    22 hours ago

    According to this webpage:

    Jewish population of Poland in 1937: 3,350,000
    Deaths: 2,770,000–3,000,000

    Only the Soviet Union had a Jewish population that came close to that scale, and suffered half to a third as many losses of that specific demographic:

    Jewish population of the Soviet Union in 1939: 3,028,538
    Deaths: approximately 1,340,000

    Poland was home to the largest contiguous population of Jewish people in Europe… and sustained the most loss of life directly from the holocaust. So, to me, it feels like a kind of big deal that any part of Poland has lost confidence in Israeli moral superiority.