How many Jews died in Soviet concentration camps?

Answer 1

I would say about 60,000 if not more Jews were killed in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler despised the Jews B/C they refused to believe like he did. It was all about religion. The Jews wanted to keep their religion and did not want to change it. On the other hand, Hitler wanted them to convert to his religion. B/C they refused it caused their death. I won't argue with the numbers because I don't know, but you are wrong about the reason. It wasn't the Jewish religion Hitler objected to. It was the Jewish race. Anyone with one Jewish grandparent was subject to all the discriminatory laws no matter what church they belonged to or what god they believed in. - The Holocaust had nothing to do with religion. - Most souces give a much higher figure than that in the first answer - usually about 1.5 million Soviet Jews killed by the Nazis in WWII (out of a total of about 2.6 million). Over 33,000 Jews were killed in the Babi Yar massacre just outside Kiev, and there were many other such massacres.

Answer 2

It depends on what you mean by Russian Jews. If you mean Soviet Jews, then a plausible thread in the Axis History Forum gives these estimates:

USSR 1,050,000 (1939 borders)

• Belorussian SSR 250,000 (1939 borders)
• Ukrainian SSR 656,000 (1939 borders)
• Russian SFSR 144,000

In addition:

• Lithuania (1939 borders) 140,000
• Latvia 77,000
• Estonia 1,000

Answer 3

This thread from the Axis History Forum gives the following numbers for Jews killed by the Nazis in the Soviet Union (pre war borders): USSR [as a whole] 1,050,000 (1939 borders)

- Belorussian SSR 250,000 (1939 borders)

- Ukrainian SSR 656,000 (1939 borders)

- Russian SFSR 144,000 Add also: Estonia 1,000

Latvia 77,000

Lithuania 140,000 (1939 borders) Source: Axis History Forum, Number of Victims of the Holocaust - Reference Thread (http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=101471) Please note that that figure for the Russian SFSR is widely considered too low. Note also that Jews killed fighting in the Soviet Armed Forces count as ordinary war casualities, not as Holocaust victims.

Answer 4

It was not the Soviets who ran Jewish concentration camps. It was the Nazi Germans who ran the Jewish concentration camps as part of their final solution to rid the world of Jews and other undesirables.

***I came back to this question to add this information from Wikipedia under the heading of List of concentration and internment camps.

Russia and the Soviet Union

In Imperial Russia, labor camps were known by the name katorga.

In the Soviet Union, labour penitentiary camps were called simply camps, almost always plural ("lagerya"). These were used as forced labor camps, and had small percentages of political prisoners. After Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book they became known to the rest of the world as Gulags, after the branch of NKVD (state security service) that managed them. (In the Russian language, the term is used to denote the whole system, rather than individual camps.)

In addition to what is sometimes referred to as the GULAG proper (consisting of the "corrective labor camps") there were "corrective labor colonies", originally intended for prisoners with short sentences, and "special resettlements" of deported peasants. At its peak, the system held a combined total of 2,750,000 prisoners. In all, perhaps more than 18,000,000 people passed through the Gulag in 1929-1953, with further millions being deported and exiled to remote areas of the Soviet Union.[46][47][48]

Of the 5.7 million Soviet prisoners of war captured by the Germans, 3.5 million had died while in German captivity by the end of the war.[49] The survivors on their return to the USSR were treated as traitors (see Order No. 270).[50][51] Over 1.5 million surviving Red Army soldiers imprisoned by the Germans were sent to the Gulag.[52][53]

After World War II, some 3,000,000 German soldiers and civilians were sent to Soviet labor camps, as part of war reparations by labor force. Only about 2,000,000 returned to Germany.

An extensive List of Gulag camps is being compiled based on official sources.

Answer 5

It's estimated that 1.15 Million Soviet Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

Answer 6

An estimated 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war died in World War 2.

Answer 7

1.25 million Soviet Jews were killed, mostly were by Nazis