between a third and a half
between a third and a half
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.
It reduced the Jewish population by about two thirds.
68%
Yes, practically all the Jews murdered in the Holocaust were civilians. Please see the related questions.
In 1933 approximately 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe comprising 1.7% of the total European population. This number represents more than 60% of the World's Jewish population at that time of an estimated 15.3 million. The majority of Jews in prewar Europe lived in Eastern Europe. The largest was Poland with about 3,000,000 Jews. In Central Europe the largest Jewish population was in Germany with about 525,000 people and Western Europe the largest population was in Great Britain with 300,000. Before the Nazi seizure in 1933 Europe had a diverse set of Jewish cultures. In less than a decade two out of every three Jews would be dead.
The German invasion of Poland had an utterly devastating effect on the Polish Jews. On the eve of World War 2 Poland had by far the largest Jewish population in Europe. About 3 milllion of the 5.7 million Jews murdered by the Nazis were Polish Jews.
Israel
Roughly 6.2 million Jewish people were murdered overall. In the camps and everywhere else the Nazis conquered.
Europe's Jewish population.
how many jews where murdered in each county and what percentage of the pre-war jewish population did they consume?
About 78% of the Jews in the occupied or war impacted parts of Europe were killed in the Holocaust (also called The Shoa). In some countries, such as Poland and Lithuania, 90% of the Jews died or were killed.