How many jews escaped from concentration camps?

Answer 1

Once Jews were in ghettos, labour camps or extermination camps escape was extremely difficult. A few people managed to escape from the Warsaw Ghetto through a tunnel that they dug. However, getting out was only half the battle: they had to avoid capture once out of the ghetto. An estimated 300 prisoners, not all of them Jews, succeeded in escaping from the Auschwitz group of camps, out of at least 1.3 million who were sent there ... However, only two (!) survived Belzec, where 434,508 Jews were slaughtered. (These two managed to escape). The most successful mass break out, at Sobibor in 1943, enabled about 250 prisoners to escape, and of these only about 50 were still alive at the end of the war ... If by escape you mean avoid the Holocaust by reaching a safe country, such as the US or Britain before the Holocaust began and if you include those who hid successfully the figure is of couse much higher - probably about 400,000.

Answer 2

Everyone still left alive at the end of WWII.

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But the Holocaust and World War 2 are not the same thing!

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It's too vague a question to be more specific than that. Are they asking how many Jews were left alive after the Germans were defeated? In the entire world? Because if we hadn't won WWII, they might have ruled everywhere. Also, they didn't just kill Jews. They killed all kinds of people, so you'd have to know how many of each of those groups were still alive in the world when the Germans were defeated. But maybe that's not what's being asked at all. It could be how many people from these groups were left alive in the countries that Germany had conquered before they were defeated. And if German rule continued for several generations, you'd have to count all the people who would have been born during that time and therefore also subject to dying in the holocaust.

You can come up with a rough number of the people who did NOT survive the holocaust, but it's impossible to say who else would have died if the holocaust hadn't ended when it did- and therefore impossible to say how many people survived.

Answer 3

Once inside a concentration camp or death camp, escape was extremely difficult. The largest numbers were: * Auschwitz (all sections) - an estimated 300 escaped. * Sobibor - There was a mass break out, but only about 150 escaped successfully and survived. * Treblinka - As Sobibor, but the estimated number of successful escapers was slightly smaller. In other words, the figure of successful escapers was in the hundreds, not thousands. Most of those Jews who survived the Holocaust did so by avoiding being sent to extermination camps in the first place ... for example, by fleeing to a safe country or going into hiding.

Answer 4

Not many. If anyone found a way out they were usually tracked down, brought back and hanged.

Answer 5

Between 1933 and 1941 America accepted a total of 250,000 refugees from Nazi Germany.

Answer 6

It's hard to say, but I read it was in the thousands.

Answer 7

Over 1,000 Jews escaped because of Oscar Schindler