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'''Racism in Poland'''
▲'''Racism in Poland''' in the 20th and 21st century has been the subject of significant inquiry. While [[Ethnic minorities in Poland|ethnic minorities]] made up a more significant proportion of the country's population from the founding of the [[History of Poland|Polish state]] through the [[Second Polish Republic]], 21st century government statistics have shown 94% or more of the population self-reports as ethnically Polish.<ref name="stat1">Główny Urząd Statystyczny, [http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/LUD_raport_z_wynikow_NSP2011.pdf Wyniki Narodowego Spisu Powszechnego Ludności i Mieszkań 2011] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021013327/http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/LUD_raport_z_wynikow_NSP2011.pdf |date=21 October 2012 }}, Warszawa 2012, pp. 105-106</ref><ref name="census2002">[https://web.archive.org/web/20081004044820/http://www.stat.gov.pl/gus/45_4520_PLK_HTML.htm Polish population census 2002] nationalities tables 1 or 2</ref>
==Racism agains ethnic minorities==
{{Expand section|Add subsections about discrimination against people of Turkish origin and of Indian origin.|date=July 2024}}
=== Jewish people ===
{{Further|History of the Jews in Poland|Antisemitism in Europe#Poland}}▼
▲{{Further|History of the Jews in Poland}}
[[File:Gwiazda-dawida-szubienica-lublin.JPG|thumb|Antisemitic graffiti in [[Lublin]] depicting a [[Star of David]] hanging from [[gallows]], c. 2012]]
[[File:Lapy zydowskie.jpeg|thumb|Antisemitic propaganda poster dating to the [[
King [[Casimir III the Great]] brought Jews to Poland during the [[Black Death]] at a time when [[Black Death Jewish persecutions|Jewish communities were being persecuted and expelled from all over Europe]]. As a result of better living conditions, 80% of the world's Jews lived in Poland by the mid-16th century.<ref name="JVL">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160414192825/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Poland.html "Poland – Virtual Jewish History Tour" at ''Jewish Virtual Library''] via Internet Archive.</ref><ref name="history1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120129091908/http://polishjews.org/history1.htm "Polish Jews History", at PolishJews.org] via Internet Archive.</ref>
During the 15th century in the royal capital of [[Kraków]], extremist clergymen advocated violence
The [[Council of Four Lands]] created in 1581 was a Jewish diet presided over by community elders from each major part of Poland, another governing body was established in Lithuania in 1623.
In [[Congress Poland]], Jews gained civic rights with the [[ukase]] (edict) of 5 June 1862, two years before [[Serfdom in Poland|serfdom]] was abolished and the peasantry was freed. 35 years later, in 1897, the 1.4 million Jews represented 14% of the population of the Russian-administered partition, which included [[Warsaw]] and [[
In the [[Second Polish Republic]], from the 1920s the Polish government excluded Jews
In the mid-20th century, notable incidents of antisemitism in Poland included the [[Jedwabne pogrom]] of 1941 in the presence of German ''[[Ordnungspolizei]] (police officers)''<ref name="Wrobel">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=--fhfkLjI8AC&q=%22It+is+unfortunate%22+%22that+Jan+Gross+neglected+the+German+part+of+his+research%22&pg=PA392 |title=Polish-Jewish Relations |publisher=[[Northwestern University Press]] |work=Dagmar Herzog: Lessons and Legacies: The Holocaust in international perspective |year=2006 |first=Piotr |last=Wróbel |pages=391–396 |isbn=0-8101-2370-3}}</ref> and [[Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–46]], attributed to postwar lawlessness as well as [[Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–46)|an anti-communist insurrection]] against the new pro-Soviet government immediately after the [[end of World War II in Europe]],<ref name="SG-1">{{cite web |url=http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id=21F8A4F9-9306-4E36-81FD-7E84C781B737 |work=Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) |publisher=Kwartalnik Historii Żydów (Jewish History Quarterly) |title=Book review of Stefan Grajek: ''Po wojnie i co dalej? Żydzi w Polsce, w latach 1945−1949'' translated from Hebrew by Aleksander Klugman, 2003 |first=August |last=Grabski |page=240 |format=PDF |via=direct download, 1.03 MB | language=pl}}</ref> and the "[[Żydokomuna]]" (Jewish communism) stereotype.<ref name="Chod">[[Marek Jan Chodakiewicz]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20050306084458/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/088033/0880335114.HTM ''After the Holocaust Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War II''], Columbia University Press, New York 2003, {{ISBN|0-88033-511-4}}.</ref> Another major event took place during the [[1968 Polish political crisis]].
[[History of the Jews in Poland|The Jewish community in Poland]] made up about 10% of the country's total population in 1939
In 2017, the [[University of Warsaw]]'s Center for Research on Prejudice found an increase in antisemitic views in Poland, possibly due to growing
Despite
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=== Roma ===
{{Expand section|History of the Roma in Poland, history of their social discrimination, history of their forced settlement after WW2, modern-day issues with integration.|date=July 2024}}
In June 1991, the [[Mława riot]]
During
=== Ukrainians ===
{{Expand section|Expand by adding the history of anti-Ukrainian policies, including pogroms and religious persecution, e.g., based on [[Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia#Polish policy towards Ukrainian minority]]|date=July 2024}}
During the second half of the last millennium, Poland experienced significant periods
=== Sub-Saharan Africans ===
The most common word in [[Polish language|Polish]] for a [[black people|black person]] has traditionally been ''"[[Murzyn]]"''. It is often regarded as a neutral word to describe a person of black ([[Sub-Sahara Africa|Sub-Saharan African]]) ancestry, but nowadays many consider it [[pejorative]], with dictionaries reflecting this. Professor Marek Łaziński has said that "Murzyn" is now "archaic".<ref>{{cite web|title="Murzyn" i "Murzynka"|url=http://www.rjp.pan.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1892:murzyn-i-murzynka&catid=44&Itemid=208&fbclid=IwAR2O5xjhyVGVeKMTeGA4Fl2X8_1Ft2R_lSn7tddkUAkz2GwkKOX50ODM3UM|agency=www.rjp.pan.pl|access-date=2020-08-14}}</ref><ref name=dcmm/>
Perceptions of black people have also been shaped by literature. [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]]’s novel ''[[In Desert and Wilderness]]'' contains the famous character [[Kali (character)|Kali]], who speaks broken English and has
One high-profile event with regard to blacks in Poland was the death of [[Maxwell Itoya]] in 2010, a [[Nigerians|Nigerian]] street vendor from a mixed marriage who was selling [[counterfeit]] goods.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Joanna |first=Podgorska |title=Wdowa po Nigeryjczyku |url=http://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/spoleczenstwo/1512204,1,wdowa-po-nigeryjczyku-czeka-na-pomoc.read |magazine=Polityka |quote=W tym roku miał dostać polski paszport.|date=2011-01-19 }}</ref> He was shot in the upper leg by a
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===German Empire===
Racist publications about Poles appeared as early as the 18th century
When part of Poland was under the rule of the [[German Empire]], the Polish population was discriminated against by racist policies. These policies gained popularity among German nationalists, some of whom were members of the [[Völkisch movement]], leading to the [[expulsion of Poles by Germany]]. This was fueled by [[Anti-Polish sentiment]], especially during the [[Partitions of Poland|age of partitions]] in the 18th century.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Robert|last1=Bideleux|author2=Jeffries, Ian|year=1998|title=A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change|page=[https://archive.org/details/A_History_of_Eastern_Europe_Crisis_and_Change_by_Ian_Jeffries_2007/page/n200 156]|publisher=Routledge|url=https://archive.org/details/A_History_of_Eastern_Europe_Crisis_and_Change_by_Ian_Jeffries_2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1=Judy Batt|editor2=Kataryna Wolczuk |title=Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe |journal=Regional & Federal Studies |volume=12 |issue=2 |publisher=Routledge |chapter=Poland's Eastern Borderlands: Political Transition and the 'Ethnic Question'|first=Marzena|last=Kisielowska-Lipman| year=2002|page=153|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sw72GPjF0DYC&q=page+153|doi=10.1080/714004742|isbn=9780714682259 |s2cid=154262562 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Nancy |last=Sinkoff |title=Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands |publisher=Society of Biblical Literature |year=2004 |page=271|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-KmeZgY2hIC&q=page+271|isbn=9781930675162 }}</ref> The Kulturkampf campaign led by [[Otto von Bismarck]] resulted in a legacy of anti-Polish racism;
===Nazi Germany===
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[[File:P Oboz.svg|thumb|[[Nazi concentration camp badge|Concentration camp badge]] with the letter "P" to identify people of Polish ethnicity, which Polish slave laborers and inmates were required to wear in occupied Poland during World War II]]
During World War II Poland was [[Occupation of Poland (1939–45)|occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union]] and Polish people were harshly discriminated against in their own country. In directive No. 1306, issued by [[w:Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda|Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda]] on 24 October 1939, the concept of ''[[untermensch]]en'' (subhuman) is cited in reference to Polish ethnicity and culture: {{
Most Nazis considered the Poles, like the majority of other [[Slavs]], to be [[Racial policy of Nazi Germany#Basis of Nazi policies and constitution of the Aryan Master Race|non-Aryan]] and non-European "masses from the East" which should be either totally annihilated along with the [[Jews]] and [[Romani people|Gypsies]], or entirely [[Generalplan Ost|expelled from the European continent]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Poles: Victims of the Nazi Era|url=https://www.ushmm.org/learn/students/learning-materials-and-resources/poles-victims-of-the-nazi-era|publisher=[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] |access-date=September 23, 2019}}</ref> Poles were the victims of [[Nazi crimes against the Polish nation|Nazi crimes against humanity]] and some of the main [[The Holocaust#Ethnic Poles|non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust]]. Approximately 2.7 million ethnic Poles were murdered or killed during [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://poland-historical-background.html/|title=Poland {{!}} www.yadvashem.org|website=poland-historical-background.html|language=en|access-date=2019-05-25}}</ref>
Nazi policy towards ethnically Polish people
On March 15, 1940, Heinrich Himmler stated that "All Polish specialists will be exploited in our military-industrial complex. Later, all Poles will disappear from this world. It is imperative that the great German nation considers the elimination of all Polish people as its chief task."<ref>Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947
by Tadeusz Piotrowski page 23 2007</ref> The goal of the policy was to prevent effective Polish resistance and to exploit Polish people as slave laborers,<ref>{{cite web |title=Poles: Victims of the Nazi Era |url=http://www.ushmm.org/education/resource/poles/poles.php?menu=/export/home/www/doc_root/education/foreducators/include/menu.txt&bgcolor=CD9544 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051128015157/http://www.ushmm.org/education/resource/poles/poles.php?menu=%2Fexport%2Fhome%2Fwww%2Fdoc_root%2Feducation%2Fforeducators%2Finclude%2Fmenu.txt&bgcolor=CD9544 |archive-date=2005-11-28 |publisher=[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] |access-date=January 25, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
David Nicholls, Gill Nicholls ABC-CLIO 2000, page 201</ref> Polish [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|slaves]] in Nazi Germany were forced to wear identifying red tags with the letter P
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In 1942, racial discrimination became Nazi policy with the ''Decree on Penal Law for Poles and Jews''.<ref>{{cite web|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|title=Full Text of Cruel Nazi Decree Against Jews and Poles Released in Washington|url=http://pdfs.jta.org/1942/1942-03-12_059.pdf?_ga=2.133965574.908760147.1569357999-265582471.1569357987|access-date=24 September 2019|date=12 March 1942|language=en}}</ref>{{rp|3}}<ref>Nazism, War and Genocide: Essays in Honour of Jeremy Noakes Jeremy Noakes, Neil Gregor University of Exeter Press, 2005, page 85</ref>
During the post-war Trials of Nazis it was stated during Trial of Ulrich Freifelt that:{{
|text=The methods applied by the Nazis in Poland and other occupied territories, including once more Alsace and Lorraine, were of a similar nature with the sole difference that they were more ruthless and wider in scope than in 1914-1918. In this connection the policy of " Germanizing " the populations concerned, as shown by the evidence in the trial under review, consisted partly in forcibly denationalising given classes or groups of the local population, such as Poles, Alsace-Lorrainers, Slovenes and others eligible for Germanization under the German People’s List. As a result in these cases the programme of genocide was being achieved through acts which, in themselves, constitute war crimes.
|source=<small>Law Reports of the Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission. Vol. XIII. London: HMSO, 1949 Trial of Ulrich Greifelt and Others, United States Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 10 October 1947 – 10 March 1948, Part IV</small>}}
Likewise, during World War II around 120,000 Polish people, mostly women and children, became the primary victims of
==Studies and surveys==
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These attitudes began to change after 2000, possibly due to Poland's entry into the European Union, increased travel abroad and more frequent encounters with people of other races. By 2008, the EVS showed Poland as one of the least xenophobic countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The negative attitudes towards Jews have likewise returned to their lower 1990s level, although they do remain somewhat above the European average.<ref name=evs/> During the same time period, ''ethnic tolerance'' and ''political tolerance'' increased in Southern Europe (Spain, Greece) and decreased in other parts of Northern Europe (Netherlands).<ref name=evs/>
While the Roma group was listed as the most rejected, the level of exclusion was still lower than elsewhere in Europe, most likely due to the long history of Roma (see [[Polska Roma]]) and their relatively low numbers in the country.<ref name=evs/>
===2012 CRP survey===
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===2018 FRA survey===
In the [[European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights|FRA]] 2018 Experiences and perceptions of antisemitism/Second survey on discrimination and hate crime against Jews in the EU, antisemitism in Poland was identified as a "fairly big" or "very big" problem by 85% of respondents (placing Poland at the fourth place after France, Germany and Belgium); 61% reported that antisemitism had increased "a lot" in the past five years (second place after France, and before Belgium and Germany); 74% reported that intolerance towards
===2022 FRA survey===
A 2022 study by European Agency for Fundamental Rights (EU FRA) found that Black people or people of African descent were least likely to experience discrimination in Poland among 13 EU states that took part in the survey. In the survey responses analyzed by the agency, 21% of respondents stated they had faced discrimination in Poland in the past five years. For comparison, 77% stated they had experienced discrimination in Germany, 44% in Italy and 27% in Sweden and Portugal, the two countries with lowest discrimination after Poland.<ref name="fra2022">[https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2023-being-black_in_the_eu_en.pdf]</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/10/25/black-people-report-facing-least-discrimination-in-poland-finds-eu-study/?fbclid=IwAR25TOkFFT9eb3jA7D2lSDVIi4_qNlaIrDMO_NM8vev-e2dsk0E4b6Lt8_0 | title=Black people report facing least discrimination in Poland, finds EU study | date=25 October 2023 }}</ref> Poland also had the highest proportion of responders (81%) who stated that when stopped by police in Poland the police officers were "very" or "fairly" respectful.<ref name=fra2022/>
==Countering racism==
===Government action===
In 2004, the government took some initiatives in order to tackle the problem of racism. It adopted the "National Programme to Prevent Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 2004-2009" ("Krajowy Program Przeciwdziałania Dyskryminacji Rasowej, Ksenofobii i Związanej z Nimi Nietolerancji 2004 – 2009")<ref>
In 2013 Polish Prime Minister [[Donald Tusk]] started The Council Against Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia, but it was shut down by the new [[Law and Justice]] government in May 2016.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Narkowicz |first1=Kasia |title=Re-emerging Racisms: Understanding Hate in Poland |url=https://discoversociety.org/2016/06/01/re-emerging-racisms-understanding-hate-in-poland/ |website=Discover Society |access-date=29 August 2019|date=June 2016 }}</ref>▼
▲In 2013 Polish Prime Minister [[Donald Tusk]] started The Council Against Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia, but it was shut down by the new [[Law and Justice (Poland)|Law and Justice]] government in May 2016.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Narkowicz |first1=Kasia |title=Re-emerging Racisms: Understanding Hate in Poland |url=https://discoversociety.org/2016/06/01/re-emerging-racisms-understanding-hate-in-poland/ |website=Discover Society |access-date=29 August 2019|date=June 2016 }}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Hate speech laws in Poland]]
* [[Islamophobia in Poland]]
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==Further reading==
* {{Cite book| publisher = Peter Lang| isbn = 978-3-631-59828-3| pages = 9–28|editor1= Hans-Christian Petersen |editor2=Samuel Salzborn | last = Friedrich| first = Klaus-Peter| title = Antisemitism in Eastern Europe: history and present in comparison| chapter = Antisemitism in Poland| location = Frankfurt am Main
* {{Cite book| publisher = Random House| isbn = 978-0-307-43096-0| last = Gross| first = Jan Tomasz| title = Fear: anti-semitism in Poland after Auschwitz : an essay in historical interpretation| location = New York| access-date = 2018-06-07| date = 2006| url = http://site.ebrary.com/id/10235235}}
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