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Holocaust Memorial Education Center

Shimon and Sara Birnbaum Jewish Community Center

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STATISTICS OF JEWISH DEATHS FROM THE HOLOCAUST


Country

Initial Jewish Population

Estimated % Killed

Estimated Killed

Number of Survivors

POLAND

3,300,000

91%

3,000,000

300,000

USSR

3,020,000

36%

1,100,000

1,920,000

HUNGARY

800,000

74%

596,000

204,000

GERMANY

566,000

36%

200,000

366,000

FRANCE

350,000

22%

77,320

272,680

ROMANIA

342,000

84%

287,000

55,000

AUSTRIA

185,000

35%

65,000

120,000

LITHUANIA

168,000

85%

143,000

25,000

NETHERLANDS

140,000

71%

100,000

40,000

BOHEMIA

MORAVIA

118,310

60%

71,150

47,160

LATVIA

95,000

84%

80,000

15,000

SLOVAKIA

88,950

80%

71,000

17,950

YUGOSLAVIA

78,000

81%

63,300

14,700

GREECE

77,380

87%

67,000

10,380

BELGIUM

65,700

45%

28,900

36,800

ITALY

44,500

17%

7,680

36,820

BULGARIA

50,000

0%

 

50,000

DENMARK

7,800

.8%

60

7,740

ESTONIA

4,500

44%

2,000

2,500

LUXEMBOURG

3,500

55%

1,950

1,550

FINLAND

2,000

.03%

7

1,993

NORWAY

1,700

45%

762

938

TOTAL

9,508,340

63%

5,962,129

3,546,211

Personal effects taken from the prisoners at Auschwitz before they were taken to the gas chamber. These belongings were found after liberation, in warehouses at the camp.
— US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Philip Vock

The source of the above table is historyplace.com ; another website for documentary information is entitled “Liberation of Western Concentration Camps”