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What percentage of Jews who lived in Europe in 1933 died in the Holocaust?

I'm trying to write in my project, although ...% of the Jews alive in 1933 died in the Holocaust, some were lucky and escaped to other countries or children were evacuated to the UK by Kindertransport.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I don't believe there is any way you can determine the percentage of Jews who died in the Holocaust who were living in Europe in 1933. Statistical information about the number of Jews living in Europe at that time are not available. It has been estimated; however, that over six million Jews were exterminated via the Holocaust. That's a pretty significant number of murders, no matter how many Jews there were in Europe!

Children evacuated to the UK were "adopted", and lost all identity as Jews; just as those children who were born of "blond, blue-eyed Jews" who were impregnated by German soldiers and raised as Germans.

Any teacher who expects you to determine a percentage of Jews who lived in Europe in 1933, who died in the Holocaust, has made an unrealistic assignment.

An in-depth report on the atrocities at Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Burgen-Belsen, Dachau, and the many other camps the Jews, Gypsies, and others whom Hitler considered "corrupt" and a danger to his regime, would be more enlightening.