Jews Murdered by Country in Europe
The numbers presented on the map above are graphically represented in the
chart which follows:
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Country Jewish Population Number of Jews Percentage of
September, 1939 Murdered Jews Murdered
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1. Poland 3,300,000 2,800,000 85.0
2. USSR (occupied
territories) 2,100.000 1,500,000 71.4
3. Romania 850,000 425,000 50.0
4. Hungary 404,000 200,000 49.5
5. Czechoslovakia 315,000 260,000 82.5
6. France 300,000 90,000 30.0
7. Germany 210,000 171,000 81.0
8. Lithuania 150,000 135,000 90.0
9. Holland 150,000 90,000 60.0
10. Latvia 95,000 85,000 89.5
11. Belgium 90,000 40,000 44.4
12. Greece 75,000 65,000 80.0
13. Yugoslavia 75,000 55,000 73.3
14. Austria 60,000 40,000 66.6
15. Italy 57,000 15,000 26.3
16. Bulgaria 50,000 7,000 14.0
17. Others 20,000 6,000 30.0
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Totals 8,301,000 5,978,000 72.0
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Source: Cited in Landau, The Nazi Holocaust, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994.
These data originally appeared in Poliakov and Wulf (eds), Das Dritte Reich
und die Juden: Documente und Aufsatze (Arani Verlag, GmbH, Berlin, 1955).
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