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Estimated Jewish population living in Europe in 2002: (source: "Quid.com")

  • France 510 800
  • Great Britain 276 000
  • Russia 275 000
  • Ukraine 110 000
  • Germany 95 000
  • Hungary 52 000
  • Belgium 31 500
  • Italy 29 500
  • Netherlands 26 500
  • Belarus 25 000
  • Switzerland 18 000
  • Sweden 15 000
  • Spain 12 000
  • Romania 11 000
  • Austria 9 000
  • Latvia 9 000
  • Denmark 6 400
  • Moldavia 6 000
  • Greece 4 500
  • Lithuania 4 000
  • Poland 3 500
  • Slovakia 3 300
  • Czech Republic 2 800
  • Bulgaria 2 500
  • Estonia 2 000
  • Others 8,500
Total 1,551,000

1,570,000 if you include 19,000 from Turkey (depending on of what is your definition of "Europe")

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The Holocaust - that is, the Nazi genocide of the Jews - began in 1941. The number of Jews killed by the Nazis before the start of World War 2 was about:

  • Perhaps a couple of hundred in 1933.
  • An estimated 400 during the Kristallnacht - that is, the pogrom of 9-10 November 1945 and a further 2,000+ at concentration camps in the aftermath.

(There were an estimated 9.5 million Jews in Europe when World War 2 started, so at that stage the percentage would have been relatively small).

The mass killings started later - with the use of mobile killing units from July 1941 onwards. Routine mass gassings began at Chelmno on 8 December 1941.

Of course, as is well known, by May 1945 about 6 million Jews had been slaughtered.

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Just before the start of World War 2 there were an estimated 9.2 million Jews in Europe.

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Around 9.5 million

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505,000-512,000

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