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The two most reliable sources for Holocaust data are the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem. Though this is the best information available, it is based on estimates and cannot take into the unknown number of victims whose bodies were never recovered or for whom there were no records.
The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɑː l ə k ɔː ˈ s t / ⓘ, HAW-lə-kawst) was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in ...
One of history’s darkest chapters, the Holocaust was the systematic killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II (1939–45).
Most estimates place the total number of deaths during the Second World War at around 70-85 million people. Approximately 17 million of these deaths (20-25 percent of the total) were...
About six million Jews and some five million others, targeted for racial, political, ideological and behavioral reasons, died in the Holocaust—more than one million of those who perished...
The totals for all countries show that nearly two-thirds of all Jews in Europe were killed during the Holocaust. The following figures are estimates based on census reports, captured German and Axis archived records, and postwar investigations.
The Holocaust —the murder of about six million Jews by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945—is the most-documented genocide in history. Although there is no single document which lists the names of all Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, there is conclusive evidence that about six million Jews were murdered. [1]
It has been estimated that at least 2.7 million Jews were murdered in these six camps; over two thirds of these were killed at Auschwitz or Treblinka. Einsatzgruppen. After extermination...
* Jews estimated murdered in the Holocaust: 6 million * Number of Jews in Europe in 1950: 3.5 million, of which about 2 million in the USSR * Number of Jewish children killed by Nazis: 1.1 million
Starvation and disease killed hundreds of thousands of Jews in Warsaw and Łódź, two of the largest ghettos in Poland. There were over 1,000 ghettos established in Europe during World War II. Drawing by Halina Olumucki of people waiting in line in the Warsaw Ghetto.