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between a half and two million Poles were deported from the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union to the Regained Territories in the repatriation of 1944-1946 ?
Ponary massacre lasted for 3 years as 100,000 Jews , Poles and Russians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators near Vilnius ?
Pogórzanie (pictured) are an ethnic group of Poles from the Subcarpathian Voivodeship ?
in mid-1939 almost 5000 Poles volunteered as living torpedoes ?
the Battle of Chudniv in 1660 was the largest Polish victory over the Russians until the Battle of Warsaw in 1920 ?
when the Polish Eddie Borysewicz became coach of the US cycling team in 1977, he used a 12-year-old to translate his commands?
the name of Polish anti-Nazi and anti-communist activist Łukasz Ciepliński (pictured) was banned from all books by the Communist government ?
the German historian Albert Brackmann argued that the Poles should be pushed farther eastwards, into Ukraine ?
Otto Schimek was himself later executed for refusing to join a firing squad executing a Polish family in 1944?
Juliusz Wertheim , a Polish pianist , conductor and composer , was a mentor of Arthur Rubinstein , considered one of the greatest piano virtuosi of the 20th Century?
Polish writer of youth literature Alfred Szklarski often compared Polish people to Native Americans ?
Polish publicist and politician Jan Ludwik Popławski was one of the first chief activists and ideologues of the right-wing National Democracy political camp?
Polish historian, army officer, and independence activist Wacław Lipiński joined the anti-communist resistance , was arrested by communist secret police in 1947 and died in prison two years later?
Edward Kossoy represented about sixty thousand Jews , Roma and Poles in cases for reparations from Germany for Nazi terror?
Jan Konopka was a Polish cavalry commander in the Napoleonic period , a general, a Baron of the French Empire , and was decorated with the Légion d'honneur ?
Judeopolonia was a proposed buffer state between the Russian and German Empires with a projected population of 30 million Jews , Poles , Ukrainians , Belarusians , Lithuanians , Latvians , and Baltic Germans ?
Jan Nagórski , Polish pioneer of aviation and the first person to fly an airplane over the Arctic , was presumed dead for 38 years?
Polish bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski , founded Załuski Library , one of the largest 18th century European libraries ?
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Question 1 : What is the population of Poles?
Question 2 : In recent years, since joining the ________ , many Polish people have emigrated to countries such as Ireland , where an estimated 200,000 Polish people have entered the labour market.
Question 3 : What region does Poles belong to?
Question 4 : What is the metropolitican population of Poles?
Question 5 : Following the Holocaust , the vast majority of surviving Polish Jews moved to ________ , contributing to the largest single place of origin of Israeli Jews.
Question 6 : The Poles can also be referred to as the inhabitants of Poland and Polish ________ irrespective of their ethnicity.
Question 7 : ________ has a historic relationship with Poland and has a relatively large Polish-descendant population.
Question 8 : However, as in most European countries, many people limit the group to native speakers of the ________ , people who share certain traditions, or people who share a common ethnic background originating from Poland.
Question 10 : There are some smaller indigenous minorities in nearby countries such as Moldova and ________ .