North America
The United States and Canada were the major focus of Polish political and economic migration after 1850 and up until the fall of the Iron Curtain. Many North American Jews trace their ancestry to Poland, which was Europe's Jewish heartland before World War II. Some 3 million Polish Jews were killed in the Holocaust; however, there's a revival of contemporary Jewish life in the new democratic Poland.
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