The Jewish population decreased because Hitler put a lot of Jews in concentration camps to be gassed. Hitler thought that Jews were subhuman and wanted to destroy the German people. In the eyes of Hitler, the Jews were responsible for all social vices including prostitution and white-slave traffic.
They were nearly wiped out
Poland had the largest Jewish population in Europe before World War II, with approximately 3.3 million Jews residing there.
-If you mean what percentage was affected, then it was 33%. -If you are asking what area of the world , it was mainly Europe that Black Death was affecting.
The population of Europe is about 750,000,000. The population of the world is about 7,000,000,000. This means about 11% of the world's population is in Europe.
Before the Holocaust, in 1933, the Jewish population in Europe was approximately 9.5 million. By the end of World War II in 1945, it is estimated that around 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, resulting in a significant decline in the Jewish population. Post-war, the Jewish population in Europe was roughly 3.5 million, reflecting the devastating impact of the Holocaust on Jewish communities.
About 46 percent of Jews live in Israel, making it the country with the largest Jewish population in the world. Other significant Jewish populations are found in the United States and Europe.
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.
In 1939, there were approximately 9.5 million Jews living in Europe. This population was concentrated mainly in countries like Poland, which had the largest Jewish community, and other Eastern European nations. In Russia, the Jewish population was around 3 million, primarily in the western regions affected by the Soviet Union's policies. The onset of World War II and the Holocaust would drastically reduce these numbers in the following years.
In August 1939, on the eve of World War 2 Poland had about 3.3 million Jews. It had easily the biggest Jewish population in Europe.
This was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish population in Nazi-occupied Europe through genocide. This policy was formulated in procedural terms at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, and culminated in the Holocaust which saw the killing of two thirds of the Jewish population of Europe.
About 11% of the world's population is in Europe.
About two-thirds of the Jews in Europe were killed, which is equivalent to about one third worldwide.