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

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

It seems a reasonable enough project to me.
Some of the variables to be considered:
Number of Jews in neutral countries (Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden);
natural increase between 1933 and 1941, when the Holocaust proper started,
number of Jews emigrating from Germany to other European countries from 1933-1941, and deported from there.
I've never heard of forcible adoption, though it may have happened on a small scale. The 'blonde, blue-eyed Jews impregnated by German soldiers' is historical pornography. The Nazis were totally against sexual contact between Jews and Germans. It is true that the Nazis never made a final decision what to do about half-Jews (Mischlinge), and most of the German ones survived the war. Those in other countries may not have been so lucky.
The total number of Jews who died in the holocaust seems to have been nearer five million than the oft-repeated six.

Answer 3

The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945

(Some of these links can be upsetting.)

http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/holocaus.htm

http://www.greenepa.net/~wgsd/computerlab/Holocaust/Holocaust.html

http://www.shamash.org/holocaust/

http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Holocaust.htm

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html

http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/

The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority

http://www.yadvashem.org/

The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.

http://www.holocaust-history.org/

http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0312

http://www.ushmm.org/

Our site is not the only one on the World Wide Web dealing with the Holocaust. Certainly an event of such tragic magnitude deserves as much coverage as possible from a wide variety of angles. Here are some other sites that you can visit for more information.

http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/ref.htm

Answer 4

Approximately 2/3, but probably more. You have taken into account the Kindertransport to England, many of whom never returned to Germany as they no longer had families to return to. Also consider those who were able to leave before the War, those who snuck out during and those who left after - going to the US, UK, Palestine, etc.
None of this takes into account those murdered in Eastern Europe, i.e. Lithuania, etc, where Jews had always lived in fear. The Russians murdered many more than we can account for.

Answer 5

All I know from reading the book about World War II Nazi Camp. (approximately 1500 pages)
The Jews that survived from the Nazi Camp was approximately 0.001% Jews survived from World War II out of the total that were put into the camp that did not escape. That is not even a percent.

I was in shock because the production are never that accurate in the manufacture world. In general, most accurate is 98.7% in current manufacture world, whereas the Nazi Camp was 99.99%. For the Nazi Camp to really do their killing with all the manufacturer equipments which contain the gas and supplies, vehicles, IBM machines from the USA (to keep track the names and how the individual were killed, which went out of business sometime in the 1990-2000) and so on.

Answer 6

One-third of all the Jews in Europe died because of the Holocaust.

Answer 7

About 2/3's. with some care as to the number who were able to move.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005687
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005161

Answer 8

Maybe this site will help you

http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/index_about_holocaust.html