The Holocaust

Statistics report on the Holocaust

The Holocaust

This report presents a range of statistics relating to the Holocaust committed during the Second World War, which resulted in the deaths of up to 17 million people. The persecution of minorities, especially Jews, escalated in Germany following the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party in the interwar period. After Hitler seized power in 1933, policies were implemented that led to the financial ruination of Germany's Jewish community, before things grew more violent and hostile in the late 1930s. As Germany expanded across much of Europe between 1938 and 1945, millions of Jews, Slavs, and other ethnic groups deemed to be "inferior" came under German control. These people were imprisoned in concentration camps, where they were used as slave labor, before systematic extermination campaigns (through gassing, mass shootings, and starvation) were put in place to kill them on a massive scale. This report takes a look at some aspects of the persecution of Jews in Germany in the lead up to the Second World War, before moving on to the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and across German territories in the 1940s.

Table of contents

Overview

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  • Basic Statistic Number of victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution 1933-1945, by background
  • Basic Statistic Number of Jewish deaths in the Holocaust 1933-1945 by location
  • Basic Statistic Estimated pre-war Jewish populations and deaths 1930-1945, by country

Persecution of Germany's Jews

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  • Basic Statistic Number of German Jewish refugees arriving in selected countries 1933-1941
  • Basic Statistic Estimates of Jewish net wealth in Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s
  • Basic Statistic Estimated share of German private capital owned by Jews 1937
  • Basic Statistic Share of emigrant assets seized by the Nazi regime 1933-1937
  • Basic Statistic Statistics relating to Kristallnacht November 9-10, 1938
  • Basic Statistic Number of Jews sent to each concentration camp after the Kristallnacht pogrom 1938
  • Basic Statistic Value of Jewish financial dispossessions in Nazi Germany 1938-1944

Concentration and extermination camps

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  • Basic Statistic Germany: civilian workforce by gender and foreign workers 1939-1944
  • Basic Statistic Number of forced laborers in the German economy 1941-1944, by sector
  • Basic Statistic Number of deportees and deaths at Auschwitz 1941-1945 by background
  • Basic Statistic Number of Jewish deportees Auschwitz 1941-1945 by country of origin
  • Basic Statistic Number of registered prisoners at Auschwitz 1941-1945 by ethnic origin
  • Basic Statistic Number of registered prisoners at Auschwitz during the Holocaust 1940-1945
  • Basic Statistic Number of prisoners and deaths on death marches during the Holocaust 1945
  • Basic Statistic Holocaust: number of prisoners rescued by the Swedish Red Cross 1945
  • Basic Statistic Occupied territory and population shares of the USSR during the Second World War

Legacy

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  • Basic Statistic Righteous Among the Nations recipients by nationality or ethnic origin 1963-2022
  • Premium Statistic Public perceptions and awareness of holocaust denial in the European Union in 2018
  • Basic Statistic Share of Jewish populations in Eastern European countries 1930-1991
  • Basic Statistic Perception of the word Oświęcim/Auschwitz in Poland 2020
  • Basic Statistic Public opinion on the participation of Poles in saving Jews from the Holocaust 2020

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