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Statistics

Statistics on the Holocaust

It is estimated that 2 million were killed by the Einsatzgruppen,* 3.3 million in the gas chambers,** and about 500,000 died in the ghettos of Eastern Europe of hunger, disease, and exhaustion, and as victims of random terror and reprisals. See Lucy S. Davidowicz, The Holocaust and the Historian (1981), pp. 12-13.

*Einsatzgruppen, special duty troops of the SS’s security service and security police, were assigned to each of the German armies invading the Soviet Union. They rounded up the Jews and killed them. The Jews were loaded on trucks or marched to remote areas. They were machine gunned into natural ravines, antitank trenches or the mass graves they were ordered to dig.

**Later, starting in 1942, the Nazis contructed six installations with large scale gassing facilities and with crematoria for the disposal of bodies. They were Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. All were located in Poland. Gilbert notes that 1,500,000 Jews were murdered at Auschwitz; 360,000 at Chelmno; 250,000 at Sobibor; 600,000 at Belzec; and 840,000 at Treblinka. See Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust (1985), p. 257, n. 6.

Jewish Victims of the Holocaust[1]

Polish-Soviet area	4,565,000
Germany	125,000
Austria	65.000
Czechoslovakia (in the pre-Munich boundaries	277,000
Hungary, including northern Transylvania	402,000
France	83,000
Belgium	24,000
Luxembourg	700
Italy	7,500
The Netherlands	106,000
Norway	760
Romania (Regat, southern Transylvania, southern Bukovina)	40,000
Yugoslavia	60,000
Greece	65,000
Total Loss	5,820,960

Germany’s Jews in Modern Times[2]

Year	Population
1871	512,158
1880	562,612
1890	567,884
1900	586,833
1910	615,021
1925	564,379
1933	503,000
1939	234,000
1941	164,000
1969	30,000

Jewish Emigration from Germany, 1933 – 1939[3]

Between April 1933 and May 1939, 304,500 Jews emigrated from Germany (including areas occupied by Germany in May 1939). They emigrated to:

U.S.	63,000
Palestine	55,000
Great Britain	40,000
France	30,000
Argentina	25,000
Brazil	13,000
South Africa	5,500
Italy	5,000
Other European countries	25,000
Other South American countries	15,000
Other	8,000
Total	304,500

World Jewish Population, 1939[4] and 1989[5]

Total World Population 2,296,000,000 in 1939

Total World Population 5,318,000,000 in 1989

Total World Jewish Population 16,648,000 in 1939

Total World Jewish Population 13,276,300 in 1989

Place	Number 1939	Number 1989	% of World Jewry 1939	% of World Jewry 1989
Europe	9,462,000	2,558,400	56.8	19.3
Americas	5,556,000	6,727,700	33.4	50.7
Asia	1,008,000	3,750,700	6.1	28.3
Africa	594,000	149,000	3.6	1.1
Australia & New Zealand	28,000	89,600	0.1	0.7

[1] Judah Gribetz with Edward L. Greenstein and Regina S. Stein, The Timetables of Jewish History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History. (New York: A Touchstone Book, Simon and Schuster, 1993.) p. 479

[2] Gribetz, Timetables, p. 385

[3] Gribetz, Timetables, p. 400

[4] Gribetz, Timetables, p. 426

[5] Gribetz, Timetables, p. 709

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prepared March 1, 2001