The figures of the Holocaust

The Holocaust is the extermination of six million Jews by the Nazi regime of 1933 to the end of the Second World War.

The Jews were those who were the biggest victims of the Nazi genocide. But other people were exterminated, like Gypsies, (we do not know the exact number of victims, but 25% of European Gypsies were killed, some 220,000 people) gay (we do not know their number true) or disabled (over 100,000). The list is still long, Jehovah's Witnesses, Blacks, political opponents ...

What is the international day of remembrance of the Holocaust?

The International Day of Holocaust Remembrance is celebrated every year on January 27, a date that marks the day of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

But on Jan. 27, is also remembered other genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda.

What is the evolution of the Jewish population of Europe in 1933 to the 50's?

Our graph showing the population of European countries shows how the Jewish population has changed on the continent.

Evolution of the Jewish population between 1933 and 1950

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The number of Jews in Poland increased from 3 million in 1933 to 45 000 in 1951, according to data from the American Jewish Committee. In France, according to the Jewish Virtual Library, 300,000 Jews lived before the war, they will be 180,000 in 1945 and 250,000 in 1951. Today, after coming immigration from North Africa, they are 600,000, including more than half in Paris.

The UK is one of the few European countries where the trend is reversed, the Jews were 300,000 in 1933 and 450,000 in 1950. This is where many refugees have therefore during the genocide.

The overall population of Jews in Europe was divided by three, 9.5 million in 1933, against 3.5 million in 1950, according to the Memorial Museum United States Holocaust.

And what about Israel?

By the end of 1945, Jewish refugees flooding into Palestine, triggering the anger of the Arab population that feels "invaded". After the Holocaust, Europeans are looking to redeem himself by giving the Jewish land.

The United Nations adopted Resolution 181 November 29, 1947, dividing Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state. On 15 May 1948, after the end of the British mandate, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independence of the State of Israel.

The Jewish population in Israel was made up of 806,000 people in 1948, the year of the creation of the State of Israel, doubling to more than 1.6 million five years later, according to the Jewish Virtual Library. Today the population exceeds the 8 million inhabitants, Jews are more than 6 million.

In 1933, 60% of Jews living in Europe. In 1950, 51% of Jews lived in North or South America, an area they joined to escape the exterminations.