Estimated Number of Jews Killed in the Final Solution
The two most reliable sources for Holocaust data are the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem. Though this is the best information available, it is based on estimates and cannot take into the unknown number of victims whose bodies were never recovered or for whom there were no records. The Nazis kept detailed records of the people who passed through the camps; nevertheless, we do not know how many Jews may still have been unaccounted for in the many places where they were murdered. In addition, as the Allies began to close in on Germany, the Nazis began to destroy their records. We also don’t know the precise number of Jews in any of these areas. The population data ranges from 1937-1941 so, for example, the countries where the figures came from 1937 may not accurately reflect the number of Jews at the time the war began. Though the two institutions have different estimates, if you average the total number of Jews each says were murdered, the result is the commonly used figure of six million.
| USHMM | Yad Vashem | |||||||
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Pre-War Jewish Population*
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Number of Jews Killed
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% of Jewish Population Murdered
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Pre-War Jewish population*
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Number of Jews Killed
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% of Jewish Population Murdered
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Albania
|
200
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Unknown
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|
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|
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Austria
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185,026
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65,459
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35%
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185,000
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50,000
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27%
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Belgium
|
90,000
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24,387
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27%
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65,700
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28,900
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44%
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Bulgaria
|
550,000
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Unknown
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50,000
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0
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0%
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Czechoslovakia
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354,000
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260,000
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73%
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| Bohemia & Moravia | 117,551 | 77,297 | 66% | 118,310 | 78,150 | 66% | ||
| Slovakia | 90,000 | 60,000 | 67% | 88,950 | 68,000-71,000 | 80% | ||
| Sudetenland | 2,363 | 360 | 15% | |||||
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Denmark
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7,500
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52-116
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2%
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7,800
|
60
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1%
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Estonia
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4,500
|
963
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21%
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4,500
|
1,500-2,000
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44%
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Finland
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|
|
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2,000
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7
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0%
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France
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300,000-330,000
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72,900-74,000
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22%
|
350,000
|
77,320
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22%
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Germany
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237,723
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165,200
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69%
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566,000
|
134,500-141,500
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25%
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Great Britain - Channel Islands
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|
|
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|
3
|
|
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Greece
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71,611
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58,800-65,000
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91%
|
77,380
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60,000-67,000
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87%
|
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| Thrace | 4,221 | |||||||
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Hungary**
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825,007
|
564,507
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68%
|
825,000
|
550,000-569,000
|
69%
|
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Italy
|
58,412
|
7,858
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13%
|
44,500
|
7,680
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17%
|
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Latvia
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93,479
|
70,000
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75%
|
91,500
|
70,000-71,500
|
78%
|
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Lithuania
|
153,000
|
130,000
|
85%
|
168,000
|
140,000-143,000
|
85%
|
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Luxembourg
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3,500-5,000
|
1,200
|
24%
|
3,500
|
1,950
|
20%
|
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Netherlands
|
140,245
|
102,000
|
73%
|
140,000
|
100,000
|
71%
|
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Norway
|
1,800
|
758
|
42%
|
1,700
|
762
|
50%
|
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Poland
|
3,350,000
|
2,770,000-3,000,000
|
90%
|
3,300,000
|
2,900,000-3,000,000
|
90%
|
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Romania
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756,930
|
211,214–260,000
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34%
|
609,000
|
271,000-287,000
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50%
|
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| Bessarabia and Bukovina | 314,000 | 103,919-130,000 | 41% | |||||
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Transylvania
|
90,295 |
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Soviet Union
|
3,028,538
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1,340,000
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44%
|
3,020,000
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1,000,000-1,100,000
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33-36%
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| Yugoslavia | 82,242 | 67,228 | 82% | 78,000 | 56,200-63,300 | 60% | ||
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Slovenia
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1,500
|
1,300
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87%
|
|
|
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| Serbia with Banat and Sandžak | 17,200 | 15,060 | 88% | |||||
| Macedonia | 7,762 | 6,982 | 90% | |||||
| Pirot, Serbia | 140 | |||||||
| Albanian-annexed Kosovo | 550 | 210 | 38% | |||||
| Croatia with Dalmatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina | 39,400 | 30,148 | 77% | |||||
| Montenegro | 30 | 28 | 93% | |||||
| Backa and Baranja | 16,000 | 13,500 | 84% | |||||
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59% | 9,796,840 | 5,596,000-5,860,000 | 60% | ||
Prewar estimates for the latest year available (1937-1941). The two institutions also divided the occupied areas slightly differently.
*When a range of figures appears, the higher numbers are used to estimate percentages.
**Borders of 1941
Sources: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Yad Vashem.
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