For hundreds of years prior to the Holocaust, Poland had been home to the largest and most significant Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, thanks to a long period of statutory religious tolerance and social autonomy. In the Holocaust, an estimated 3 million Polish Jews were killed. The study explored how many people who are ethnically Jewish still live in Poland today. MyHeritage DNA tests have only been recently made available for purchase in Poland. Of the 2,321 DNA test-takers in Poland, only 1.2% had Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity of 25% or more, compared to 7.6% in Hungary and 7.5% in Russia. The results in Poland showed that only 0.4% of test-takers had 50% or more Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity (compared to 4.2% in Hungary and 3.1% in Russia). The conclusion is that, in Poland, the Nazis had murdered the Jews systematically. There were few survivors and many of them chose to leave Poland. In Hungary, the data reveals a different situation: more Jews assimilated into the local population before the Holocaust, more Jews survived the Holocaust, and more Jews remained in Hungary after the Holocaust.
