Polish Mexicans

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|group = Polish Mexicans
polscy meksykanie
polaco-mexicanos

|flag = {{flagicon|Poland}} {{flagicon|Mexico}}

|image = Muestra folklórica de la comunidad polaca de México (2).JPG

|caption = Folk dance by the Polish community of Mexico City

|population = 1,169 Poland-born residents (2015){{cite web|title=Table 16: Total migrant stock at mid-year by origin and by major area, region, country or area of destination, 2015|url=https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/data/UN_MigrantStockByOriginAndDestination_2015.xlsx|publisher=United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division |access-date=20 March 2016}}

|popplace = Mexico City

| langs = Spanish{{·}}Polish

|rels=Roman Catholicism, Judaism

|related = Other Polish diasporas

}}

There is a Polish diaspora in Mexico. According to the 2005 intercensal estimate, there were 971 Polish citizens living in Mexico.{{cite web |url=http://www.inegi.gob.mx/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/estudios/sociodemografico/ext_en_mex/extraen_mex.pdf |title=Los extranjeros en México |access-date=2010-12-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070214112327/http://www.inegi.gob.mx/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/estudios/sociodemografico/ext_en_mex/extraen_mex.pdf | archive-date=2007-02-14 }} Furthermore, by the estimate of the Jewish community, there may be as many as 15,000 descendants of Jewish migrants from Poland living in Mexico.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090213193628/http://www.meksyk.polemb.net/index.php?document=31 Poles in Mexico]

Migration history

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The first Poles arrived in Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico. In May 1942, Mexico declared war on Germany. To show solidarity with the Polish people, Mexico accepted in 1943 over 2,000 Polish refugees including 1,400 Polish orphans to settle in the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico. After the war, many of the refugees remained to live in Mexico.[http://cosmopolitanreview.com/hacienda-santa-rosa/ Hacienda Santa Rosa: a Polish Refuge in Mexico]

Polish-Mexicans

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  • Helen Plaschinski, Mexican former Olympics freestyle swimmer for Summer 1980 of Polish descent.

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  • Rodolfo Usigli, Mexican playwright to Italian father and Polish mother.
  • Sara Sefchovich, Mexican writer born into a Polish/Lithuanian Jewish family.{{cite web|url=https://www.enlacejudio.com/2019/02/25/memoria-de-la-historia-historia-de-la-memoria/|title=Memory of history, history of memory|trans-title=|date=2019-02-25|publisher=Enlace Judío|access-date=2025-04-23|language=es}}

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See also

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