How Many Jews Were Murdered?
Please consider the below figures as estimates.* Links provide additional information about the life and experiences of Jews in each individual country during the Holocaust.
| Austria | 185,000 | 50,000 |
| Belgium | 66,000 | 25,000 |
| Bohemia/Moravia | 118,000 | 78,000 |
| Bulgaria | 50,000 | 0 |
| Denmark | 8,000 | 60 |
| Estonia | 4,500 | 2,000 |
| Finland | 2,000 | 7 |
| France | 350,000 | 77,000 |
| Germany | 565,000 | 142,000 |
| Greece | 75,000 | 65,000 |
| Hungary | 825,000 | 550,000 |
| Italy | 44,500 | 7,500 |
| Latvia | 91,500 | 70,000 |
| Lithuania | 168,000 | 140,000 |
| Luxembourg | 3,500 | 1,000 |
| Netherlands | 140,000 | 100,000 |
| Norway | 1,700 | 762 |
| Poland | 3,300,000 | 3,000,000 |
| Romania | 609,000 | 270,000 |
| Slovakia | 89,000 | 71,000 |
| Soviet Union | 3,020,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Yugoslavia | 78,000 | 60,000 |
| Total: | 9,793,700 | 5,709,329 |
* For additional estimates see:
Lucy Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945 (New York: Bantam Books, 1986) 403.
Abraham Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit, History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994) 266.
Israel Gutman (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1990) 1799.
Raul Hilberg, Destruction of European Jews (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1985) 1220.
