JEWS IN POLAND AFTER THE

Before World War 2 and the Holocaust over 3,5 million Jews lived in Poland.
Were there any Jews in Poland after the Holocaust?
Watch the full episode of TJHTalks episode: Poland’s Jewish Community Today: Looking Back; Moving Forward.
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Konstanty Gebert is an international reporter and columnist for Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s largest daily newspaper, and founder of the Polish-Jewish intellectual monthly magazine Midrasz (1997-2019). Konstanty was a democratic opposition activist in the 1970s when together with Stanisław Krajewski and others he organized the Jewish Flying University, an underground group that met clandestinely to study Judaism and Jewish culture. He was then an underground journalist under the Communist military dictatorship. He is the author of Living in the Land of Ashes (2013) and ten other books on subjects such as the Polish democratic transformation, French policy towards Poland, the Yugoslav wars, Israel, and postwar Polish Jewry. In 2018, he was awarded the American Jewish Press Association Rockower Award.
Monika Krajewska is a Warsaw-based artist and educator. Formerly a journalist, editor and--for many years--an art teacher at the Lauder Morasha Jewish day school in Warsaw. She is the author of two groundbreaking photography books on Jewish cemeteries in Poland: “Time of Stones” (1982) and “A Tribe of Stones” (1993), as well as several analyses of the symbolic meaning of tombstone reliefs. As a papercut artist, she is inspired by this traditional Jewish art form, which she infuses with her own, unique style. Her papercuts and photographs have been exhibited in Poland and abroad and are included in many private collections and synagogues. Monika Krajewska also conducts workshops on exploring Jewish tradition through art.
Stanisław Krajewski, professor of philosophy at the University of Warsaw, has published widely in the field of logic, philosophy of mathematics, as well as the Jewish experience and Christian-Jewish dialogue. He has been actively involved in the renewal of Jewish life in Poland since the late 1970s. Professor Krajewski has served as the Jewish co-chairman of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews since its inception in 1991. He also co-authored the post-war section of the Core Exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. In 2005 he published a critically acclaimed book: “Poland and the Jews: Reflections of a Polish Polish Jew.
Helise Lieberman, a former Hillel director, was the founding principal of the Lauder-Morasha Day School in Warsaw. She has served as a consultant to the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe, the Westbury Group, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and to the JDC - Baltics. In 2007-2008, Ms. Lieberman received a scholarship to participate in the Senior Educators Program of the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at Hebrew University. Helise Lieberman was awarded the Bene Merito medal by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2015. A dual citizen, she has lived in Warsaw since 1994. In 2008, she became the Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Life and Learning.
Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland, has a long and rich history of involvement with Jewish communities of both Eastern Europe and Asia. As a student in the 1970s, Rabbi Schudrich began traveling to Eastern Europe, leading Jewish groups and meeting with the members of Jewish communities behind the Iron Curtain. After receiving rabbinic ordination, he served as Rabbi of Japan from 1983-1989. In 1992, he returned to Warsaw and, in June 2000, became the Rabbi of Warsaw and Lodz. In December 2004, he was appointed to the position of Chief Rabbi of Poland. Rabbi Schudrich serves Poland’s growing Jewish community as the official interlocutor between Polish Jews, the government, and the Catholic Church.
Michael H. Traison is a partner at Cullen and Dykman LLP with its Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights department. In his practice, he focuses on restructuring and insolvency as well as commercial and international law. Michael has represented corporate clients for more than 35 years and is a widely-recognized expert in helping businesses resolve complex legal issues. He also maintains a special focus on Israel, Poland, and Eastern Europe, and has appeared before courts throughout the United States, Poland, and Israel.
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Wow that was very interesting to hear

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Thanks, it is pity it is so short.

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Dear Andrzej, here is the full conversation:
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There was more thsn 3.5vmillion in prewar Poland (which included much of what is now Ukraine and Bełarus).

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only in Poland there were 3,500,000 million Jews