Didn't some people from Poland die in the Holocaust?

Question

I know a majority were Jewish, but weren't some Polish?

Answer 1

Yes, I think some were.

Answer 2

About 3 million Poles were killed by the Germans in camps and other forms of killing. The question that needs to be asked is this still a genocide. Over 10% of the former Yugoslavain population were killed by the Germans, the highest percentage of any country involved in World War II. Is this a genocide? Every country Germany attacked or occupied was affacted, regardless of ethinicity, religious affilation and sexual oreination they were all affected by the Nazis. Whether it is six million Jews or twenty million Russians what difference does it make death is death.

Answer 3

I'd suggest you be careful about this topic because it tends to bring out the worst vermin on the internet.

Yes... many poles died, some of whom were jews. Gypsies were murdered, the mentally deficient and mentally ill. Homosexuals etc etc. Something like 20 million russians died in the war.

Estimates are 6 million jews died and that was a significant percentage of the worldwide population. It gets a lot of press because that was one of the overt goals of nazism... to eradicate an entire "race" of people.

So while jews have a real reason to grieve and be wary of the continuing threat of anti-semitism, millions of people suffered in WWII who were not jews.

It's not a popularity contest. Nobody "owns" the suffering. However, a lot of ugly evil people compain about the fact the 6 million jews thing gets a lot of press. You'd have to be a pretty small bit of filth to make a big deal to disupte their pain.

From wikipedia:
Some three million non-Jewish Polish citizens perished during the course of the war, over two million of whom were ethnic Poles (the remainder being mainly ethnic minorities of Ukrainians and Belarusians). The vast majority of those killed were civilians, mostly massacred during special action ope

Answer 4

The same person can be Polish and a Jew. So the answer is yes a lot of Polish Jews and their sympathizers were slaughtered in the Holocaust. Some of the death camps were in Poland.

Answer 5

OMG Jewish is a religion not a nationality! And Jews weren't even the only people persecuted. So yes many Polish people who had disabilities and were homosexual, were anti Nazis or were of Jewish descent were killed.

Answer 6

Anyone that did not agree with the Nazi ideology died at the death camps. It was not all Jews. That is a myth.

Answer 7

Lots of Poles died duringWW2