[Verdelet]

Poland has really come a long way as a nation. From a Jew hating oppressive state prior to and during the Nazi years, and a freedom crushing state under the Russians, to a pro-life pro-free speech pro-capitalist nation it is now.

I can't agree with you, Poland has been a place where people of different believes found their refugee for hundreds of years. Please read this:
"From the beginning of its statehood, different religion coexisted in Poland. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Poland was famous for its unique religious tolerance reasserted by the Statute of Kalisz (1264) and the Warsaw Confederation (1573)."

[Cronos]

correct about the religious tolerance — while Germania had the 30 years war, Protestants and Catholics were living together in Poland-Lithuania

[Sam Gamgee]

I was under the impression that in the early years of the immigration to Palestine, many Jews came from Poland because of prejudice they found there?