By 1952, only about 3-4 million non-Germanized Poles (all of them peasants) were to be left residing in the former Poland.

There were about 20,000 Poles living in Siberia around 1860s.

The Polish minority in Spain numbers about 130,000-150,000 Poles.

There are about 400,000 ethnic Poles living in the west of the country.

By the time the French forces retreated from the island in 1803, about 4,000 Poles had died (either from disease or combat).

The partisans killed about 128 Poles in Naliboki, on May 8, 1943.

From 1939-1941, the Germans deported en masse about 1,600,000 Poles, including 400,000 Jews.

The Soviets also executed about 65,000 Poles.

About 1.7 million Poles were deemed Germanizable, including between one and two hundred thousand children who were taken from their parents.

In 1840 there had been about 10 million Poles - by 1914 there were over 18 million.