I recommend this book.
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. Print.
Among other things, it relates how for many years Poland only recognized marriages contracted by the Roman Catholic Church. This made the children of Jewish marriages bastards. One could pay a heafty fee to authorities to have the child legitimized by the state.
How kind.
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