` :As Mbz1 showed, the article on the Holocaust in Poland gives that exact wording. The Nazis wiped out Jewish life in Poland, which before the Holocaust was thriving. Jews represented a VERY significant proportion of the population in Poland. After the Holocaust, there were nearly none left. Today, there are still nearly none left. I would say this is the destruction of an entire civilization. The fact that Jews elsewhere were able to spit in the face of Hitler, ``regroup``, and build one of the most advanced and vibrant democracy in the world in Israel, does not change the fact that Polish Jewry was destroyed.   `