Polonia

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Polonia, which is the name for Poland in Latin and in many other languages, refers in modern Polish language to the Polish diaspora, and to people of Polish origin who live outside Poland. There are roughly 15 to 20 million people of Polish ancestry living outside Poland, making the Polish diaspora one of the largest in the world. Reasons for this displacement vary from border shifts, to forced resettlement, to political or economic emigration. Major populations of Polish ancestry can be found in Germany, France, several other European countries, the United States, Canada, Brazil and elsewhere in the Americas. A large proportion of the Polish citizens who migrated in the early twentieth century were Polish Jews, and these also make up part of the Jewish diaspora. Poland was home to the world's largest Jewish population as late as 1938, a decade before the establishment of Israel. Over three million Polish Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and most of the survivors emigrated. Today only about 25,000 Jewish people live in Poland.... Mehr