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According to the Jewish Virtual Library, world Jewish population in 1939 was 16,728,000.

The US Holocaust Memorial indicates that European Jewish population in 1933 was approximately 9.5 million, 60% of world Jewish population (15.3 million) and 1.7% of the overall European population.

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It's estimated that between 9.4 Million and 9.4 million Jews were in Europe by 1939. However only about 2.75 Million Jews still existed in Europe by May 1945.

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About 3.3 million.

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