How many Jews were there before WWII versus today?

 

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

  1. Jewish Historical Museums now exist in numerous cities across Europe including Berlin, Amsterdam (www.jhm.nl), London (www.jewishmuseum.org.uk)
  2. The survivor’s registry at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (www.ushmm.org)
  3. 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.