4. war dead in august 2009 the polish institute of national remembrance (ipn) put the figure of poland's dead at between 5,620,000 and 5,820,000. the ipn's figures include 3 million polish jews who died in the holocaust (200,000 included with polish speakers); as well as 150,000 victims of soviet repression. the figures also include poles killed in 1943-44 during the massacres of poles in volhynia