To Stay Or Go? Jews In Europe In The Immediate Aftermath Of The Holocaust
To Stay Or Go? Jews In Europe In The Immediate Aftermath Of The Holocaust

Summary/Abstract: The German racial extermination policy during World War II resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Jewish population of Europe in the areas controlled by Nazi Germany. Poland in particular is a case in point. Out of the 3,5 million Polish Jews only about ten percent escaped mass murder, the majority of them surviving in the Soviet Union. According to estimates, only several tens of thousands Jews managed to survive in the areas of German-occupied Poland, among them survivors of ghettos and camps, partisans and those who had been hidden by non-Jews on the so-called Aryan side.2 The remnants of Polish Jewry had not only lost their families, relatives and friends, but also their homes, communities and homeland.

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