Paradisus Judaeorum

Historians have used the label Heparadisus iudaeorum (Latin for "Paradise of the Jews").

Visitors learn that religious tolerance in Poland made it a "HeParadisus Iudaeorum" (Jewish paradise).

Known as the "Heparadise for the Jews", it became a shelter for persecuted and expelled European Jewish communities and the home to the world's largest Jewish community of the time.

1606 – Poland first described as "HeParadisus Iudaeorum".

Piasecki continued publishing anti-Jewish texts also following the German occupation, in June 1940 he published article in the Polish National Democracy underground newspaper Walka titled "Gubernia Generalna — Paradisus Judaeorum" (The General Government — Paradisus Judaeorum) in which he stated that:"The Jews are clearly overprivileged by the German anti-Semitic racists. The armband with the Star of David has become a badge that protects them from being caught and forced to slave labour. The Jews are not kidnapped from the streets, or transported to the Reich. The Jewish Ghetto has no reason to complain about the occupation."

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, known for its religious tolerance and described as HeParadisus Judaeorum (Latin for "Paradise of the Jews"), had attracted tens of thousands of Jews who fled persecution from other European countries.

Heaven for the nobility, purgatory for townspeople, hell for peasants, paradise for Jews