Around the same time hundreds of thousand of Jews lived in Catholic Poland, the Catholic Austrian Empire, and Catholic Italy. They were welcomed there by popes and Kings like Casimir IV. In fact Poland was knows as "the Paradise of the Jews." Why do you think there were so many Jews there at the start of WWII. The fate of Jews in Europe depended on their relationship with the kings of the realm. The inquistion in Europe was something more benign, the Spanish Inquisition tho was tough.
Around the same time hundreds of thousand of Jews lived in Catholic Poland, the Catholic Austrian Empire, and Catholic Italy. They were welcomed there by popes and Kings like Casimir IV. In fact Poland was knows as "the Paradise of the Jews." Why do you think there were so many Jews there at the start of WWII. The fate of Jews in Europe depended on their relationship with the kings of the realm. The inquistion in Europe was something more benign, the Spanish Inquisition tho was tough.