Jews
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...explusions throughout the 15th cent., fled to Poland, where, although subject to persecution...the Ashkenazim also migrated east into Poland. The Polish-Lithuanian community became...systematically slaughtered (see anti-Semitism ; Holocaust ). After the war, great numbers of Jews...