how many people died in total in the holocaust?

Answer 1

The estimated population of European Jews before the Holocaust was 8,861,800. The estimated number annihilated was 5,933,900, or 67% of the population. The Holocaust differed from the other twenty nine million non-Jews who died in one fundamental respect. It was the attempt to annihilate, totally to exterminate, all of the Jewish people of Europe. It is worth noting that the Holocaust includes the attempt to exterminate those of Gypsy heritage within Europe. As with the Jewish people, Gypsies were singled out for racial persecution by the Nazis. In all, about 250,000 Gypsies were sent to Auschwitz and other extermination camps, where they were either treated as guinea-pigs for experimental medicines, or executed.