
Country | Before WWII | Today |
Austria | 10,000 | |
Belgium | 65,000 (by 1939) | 42,000 |
Czechoslovakia | ||
Denmark | 7,500 | 6,500 |
Finland | ||
France | ||
Hungary | ||
Germany | 500,000 in 1933 (239,000 by 1939) | 60,000 |
Greece | ||
Italy | ||
Luxembourg | ||
Netherlands | ||
Norway | ||
Romania | ||
Russia | ||
Sweden | ||
Switzerland | ||
Yugosalvia |
*note Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
- Jewish Historical Museums now exist in numerous cities across Europe including Berlin, Amsterdam (www.jhm.nl), London (www.jewishmuseum.org.uk)
- The survivor’s registry at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (www.ushmm.org)
- For more info about unsung heroes of WWII such as:
- Oskar Schindler
- Irena Sendler who personally helped save an estimated 2,500 Jewish babies and children from the Nazi controlled ghetto in Warsaw during the Holocaust see irenasendler.org
- Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Consul Generla in Lithuania, who issued over 2,000 transit visas for persecuted Jews.